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Rubbish row heads for a showdown
Chris Adams
DISTRICT bosses will face a u-turn call over a controversial rubbish collection shake-up at a meeting on Wednesday night.
A motion lodged by the Vale’s UKIP leader has called for plans to be abandoned – and said Conservatives should have told voters about the proposals before May’s election.
But the boss responsible for rubbish collection has defended the plans, which would see large refuse bins and recycling emptied on alternate weeks, with kitchen rubbish picked up every week.
A monthly glass collection is also part of plans, and householders will be able to subscribe to have green rubbish picked up.
Councillor Chris Adams, who heads a two-man UKIP team at Aylesbury Vale District Council, has tabled a motion calling for a rethink ahead of a full council meeting.
The UKIP group leader wrote: “Weekly bin collections are a very basic service that the public can reasonably expect after a decade in which their council tax has nearly doubled.”
And he hit out at Conservative leaders for not putting plans forward ahead of the election, stating: “No party included moving to a fortnightly bin collection as part of their local election manifesto, therefore there is no mandate to introduce the policy.”
But Sir Beville Stanier, cabinet member for environment and health, told the Herald: “We spoke the truth, we’re maintaining a weekly collection from every house, albeit in a slightly different manner.
“The smelly stuff will go in another container that will be picked up every week.”
Mr Adams has branded a 20-litre food container which will be issued to householders a ‘slop bucket’, a term Sir Beville has hit out at, saying: “The word slop bucket has been put around, which has unfortunate connotations.
“The point of giving people a separate container is so that it isn’t muddled up with non-food waste.
“We hope to convert that food waste into energy.”
Councillor Steven Lambert, who heads the Liberal Democrat group, said he was worried by UKIP’s motion.
“It means the council will have to now adopt a position before we know all the detail,” he said.
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marko001
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 11:41 PMCllr Chris Adams still no alternative to how we are going to increase recycling. As I said on the night within your ward of Quarrendon you have the Rabans lane transfer site do you want to increase the size of it or build more landfil sites in Quarrendon or elsewhere in Aylesbury Vale, because without increasing recycling that is your only choice. People have been recycling food in every part of the country, we will learn from their mistakes to come up with a solution that works and that is acceptable to council taxpayers. You can either help come up with the best solution for Aylesbury to reduce landfill or you can just object and make political points. What's more important making a point about the EU or reducing landfill and reducing the amount I, you and every council taxpayer in Aylesbury has to pay for it? Good Night Chris.
UKIP Aylesbury Vale
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 10:46 PMThe UKIP motion was to keep weekly bin collections, Cllr Mark Winn which YOUR Conservative Party have just broken their promises on. In your own leaflet Cllr Winn, it says: WE WILL retain weekly household collections" it does not say WE WILL INTRODUCE A FORTNIGHTLY household collection....It does not say WE WILL introduce a weekly ONLY slopbucket food collection, and everything else goes to fortnightly. Get your facts right...You lied to constituents, UKIP didn't. It was the best night in decades at Aylesbury Vale where you actually got STRAIGHT TALKING on all the main issues that matter to taxpayers, only UKIP were upfront and in your faces & you didn't like it! Cllr Adams gave a full on loud message but of course the Conservatives & Liberal Democrats tried to twist the motion into talking about recycling and not the motion. Cllr Adams reiterated the motion in question. The only people in that building who were flustered were yourselfs from the Conservatives in which you all resulted into bad manners when Cllr Adams was speaking in his 5mins. To rub salt into the wound, Sir Beville Stanier had an extra 1 and a half mins over the allocated time on the clock...rules for some but not for others. Let's get one other fact straight, it's your Conservative Party Cllr Winn, District Council chiefs have claimed they are being forced to introduce fortnightly collections and ever more recycling bins to avoid paying a Landfill Tax. Under the measure, introduced by John Major’s Conservative Government in 1996, councils are penalised for every ton of rubbish they bury. It currently stands at £56 a ton, your Coalition has pledged to increase the tax, designed to help Britain meet the EU Landfill Directive, by £8 a year. So it's your parties fault because you want to be in Europe and run by Europe!
marko001
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 08:23 PMUKIP were asked to come up with alternatives to increased landfill and increased landfill taxes that all council taxpayers have to pay. Cllr Adams got so flustered that he resorted to shouting. This was avery poor night for UKIP and Cllr Adams no matter what spin his supporters try to offer on here.
sherry-fowler198@o2.co.uk
Friday, July 15, 2011 at 04:01 PMLively Scenes at the Oculus!! UKIP councillors were furious on Wednesday 13th July at the AVDC Council meeting that Conservative and Liberal Democrats talked down and voted against a motion to stop the Council introducing fortnightly bin collections to Aylesbury Vale and by doing so has signalled the end of weekly bin collections. No matter what spin the Conservatives and Lib Dems put on it, your rubbish will only be collected every two weeks. At the heart of the UKIP motion was the fact the Conservative election material, before District Council elections in May, stating that they retain weekly bin collections and indeed at thew inaugural meeting of new members only a few weeks ago, leader of the Tories, John Cartwright said he was proud of Conservative achievements including weekly bin collections (being economical with the truth comes to mind!). On a personal note I thought the councillors behaved disgracefully in not taking into account public opinion first. It's alright for wealthy councillors who live in big houses with plenty of land, my own district councillor lives in a small mansion with iron gates to stop people peeking in - presumably he has a gardener to empty his slop bucket (I'm alright Jack!) but ask people who live in modest accommodation, elderly people, people who only have access to their back gardens through their front doors, what are they going to do with all these bins? There is also the cost equation, the supply of all these new bins will probably be far more than the EU fine. The other motion put by UKIP leader Chris Adams was for the Council to urge out 2 MPs, David Lidington and John Bercow not to support the 2.9% increase in the EU budget but to the dismay and calls of "chicken, chicken", this was also defeated so it's okay to give more of our money to the EU - thanks AVDC! A lively meeting indeed, calls for Conservative and Lib Dems members to resign and fight HS2 as independents, Raj Khan urging people to take to the streets, John Cartwright warned against this but asked councillors to keep their pitchforks sharpened, Labour councillor and Eco Warrior Robin Stuchbury demanding councillors demonstrate at Runnymede, the seat of democracy to stop HS2. Councillors trading insults, calls of chicken, chicken, Tories cutting down the time for oppostyion speakers and accusations of misleading the public - things are hotting up at AVDC - I can't wait for the next meeting - Dave Fowler, Waddesdon
marko001
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 12:16 PMUKIP motion badly defeated, if you are going to bring a motion like this you must present alternatives, otherwise it looks like you support more landfill and more landfill taxes for Council taxpayers. Was nothing more than an attempt to get cheap publicity for a political party, if public had come along they would have seen that. (Fully support e-broadcasting so public can see for themselves and make their own minds up). Even if you don't agree with the global warming arguement is covering the land with more and more rubbish a good thing? I think not, and like it or not there are landfill taxes which council taxpayers will, and are having to pay. Cllr Mark Winn
Johnny Heartbreaker
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 08:08 AMWhere's the fuss (or actual story) in all of this? If as stated the 'smelly stuff' continues to be collected once a week, and all other waste fortnightly then, sorry, but it sounds like business as usual to me. A monthly glass and garden waste collection sounds a good idea too. The only concerns perhaps centering around the total cost of AVDC supplying new bins to every household, whether this cost would be added to our Council Tax bills and whether we would have to pay extra for that proposed monthly glass and garden waste collection. Other than that, as said above, what's all the fuss about?!
JR
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 12:20 AMThis whole rubbish collection thing doesn't bother me - I simply bag up my stuff in old carrier bags and chuck it through the car window somewhere in the countryside ;-)
Aylesbury Duck
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 02:01 PMSir Beville Stanier, said “We hope to convert that food waste into energy.” tell me, where does "WE HOPE" come into it????? Before they implement this they had better be sure what they are doing, before they waste any more of our cash?
ToBeFair
Monday, July 11, 2011 at 05:20 PMThe Constant Gardener is completed wrong! If you were to ask Joe Public in the street they would want to keep weekly bin collections. The ones that are short sighted & ignorant are the Conservative run Aylesbury Vale District Council who don't care about the views of local people. At least UKIP are prepared to put forward a motion that gets a debate going and it's not just rubber stamped. If you are one of the thousands in Aylesbury Vale who hoped to keep a weekly rubbish collection, no doubt you will be disappointed by the latest Government U-turn. However, it should come as no great surprise, as in many parts of the UK, offering a weekly bin collection would see many local authorities fined as a consequence of something called the EU Landfill Directive. This piece of legislation financially punishes councils if they generate too much landfill. Weekly collections would mean more landfill, which would result in more fines. Yet again we see how a Brussels-created policy affects millions of people in the UK. The Conservative Party has campaigned locally and nationally on the promise of a weekly rubbish collection, which now will not happen in Aylesbury Vale if the Conservatives & Liberal Democrats have their way. The irony of it all is that the EU Landfill Directive was written and proposed by Caroline Jackson, the former Conservative MEP for South West England, back in 2008.
The Constant Gardener
Monday, July 11, 2011 at 01:24 PMTypical UKIP - short sighted and ignorant.
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