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Seven-week wait for bins to be emptied


27/ 8/2008

A SMALLBRIDGE resident has finally had his bins emptied after seven weeks.

Alan Powers, of Wardle Edge, was angry when Rochdale Council failed to collect the waste, without explanation, for almost two months.

No action was taken until he contacted Councillor Jean Ashworth, who arranged for the waste to be removed.

Mr Powers was grateful for her help and pleased that the situation has finally been resolved.

He said: "People in the area tried for seven weeks to get the council to empty the bins, but nothing happened.

"I would like to say a huge thank you to Councillor Ashworth for helping to sort this out for me. Within a day of contacting her, the waste had been removed."

He now hopes that his collections will return to normal so that he won’t experience any similar problems in the future.

He added: "We’ve had some issues in the past with our bins and often read in the Observer that people are having problems with their collections.

"I just hope that this doesn’t happen again."

Peter Cunningham, the council’s head of environmental management, said: "We have spoken to Mr Powers and are pleased that the situation is resolved.

"Moving the bins took longer than usual as a further five bins were reported on the same day as the first two so an additional collection was required."


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   its a different story if your late paying your council tax this man should be given seven weeks cost of this service back as they did"nt provide it. by the way ask the leader of rochdale council if he would pay his window cleaner if he had"nt cleaned his windows for seven weeks...
TLR.
27/08/2008 at 17:25
   I think its ridiculous 7 wks before bins are empited what are the council playin at they are quick enough to take money of us for council tax........get your priorities right and do your job lets hope i never have to wait 7wks for my bin to be emited or there will be hell to pay.
gatesofheaven
27/08/2008 at 13:59
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