I have been raising concerns about the changes to the green waste collection service with the City Council since early this year.
In September I submitted evidence to Birmingham City Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s Inquiry into the Green Waste Collection Service – calling for a suspension of the charge. You can read the inquiry’s report here.
In the meantime, though, residents in Birmingham have continued to struggle with the charge. So on behalf Birmingham’s eight Labour MPs, I recently wrote to the Council’s Chief Executive with a series of questions about the Council’s assumptions about the operation of the service in 2015 -and how quickly improvements to the system can realistically be introduced.
We want clear assurances that the situation will be fundamentally different in the coming year.
