After catching up with the backlog of full bins on Saturday, vehicle failures meant that garden waste collections were missed in Dringhouses, Woodthorpe, Wheldrake and Copmanthorpe yesterday (Monday). The Council has promised to try to empty the bins today.
The Council web site also reports isolated cases of roads being missed because of poor parking and road works
There is still no word from the Council on when new, more reliable, vehicles will be rolled out.
The missed bins from yesterday and due for collection in Haxby, Huntington, Fulford and and Bishopthorpe today weren’t collected. This is put down to continuing staffing and vehicle reliability issues.
Skelton was also missed today
The Council says that it will try to empty all outstanding waste and garden bins tomorrow (Saturday)
It does increasingly seem that the bin emptying service, which was often regarded in public satisfaction surveys as the most appreciated local service provided by the Council, is now in decline.
Tomorrow we’ll reveal what the Councils PR department have been up to instead of updating residents on important information like this.
Residents tell us the the bins, due for collection in Poppleton last week, have now been emptied.
Meanwhile streets in Earswick, Heworth and Stockton on Forest were missed today.
It remains unclear when the York Council hopes to deal with issues arising out of inadequate vehicle capacity and unreliability.
More streets in York have not had their refuse, recycling and garden waste collected today.
Areas affected included Dringhouses (Middlethorpe), Bishopthorpe, Acomb, Chapelfields, Tang Hall and Lockwood Street
Some residents have called for the service to be “outsourced” (privatised).
Until the Council is more candid about the causes of its current problems, then it is difficult to know whether different management arrangements would lead to a more reliable service.
Bin emptying arrangements have been plagued with problems over the last few days.
According to the Councils web site many bins in Fulford and Bishopthorpe weren’t emptied today. The Council blames staff sickness and vehicle problems for the poor service.
Last week several neighbourhoods suffered delayed collections. These included parts of Strensall, Haxby, Wigginton, Acomb, Huntington and Heworth.
On Friday garden waste collections didn’t take place in Poppleton.
Residents were told to leave their bins out for emptying on Saturday but they were missed again.
Incredibly the Council has failed to issue a media statement explaining the delays, apologising and indicating when they expect to catch up with their collection schedule.
The responsible Executive member is aware of the problems
