LETTER: Residents penalised by trial

How disappointing to read in The Voice (November 23) that the decision by South Holland district councillors to offer a “Charge to Collect” green waste trial appears likely to mean the vast majority of residents in South Holland (around 97 per cent of them) will be penalised by an even greater reduction in opening times at the West Marsh Road facility.

It seems that South Holland District Council officers have not got a clue as to whether the scheme will work or not and portfolio older Gambba Jones talks broadly and vaguely of a monitoring system to ensure no abuse of brown bins on our streets. It will be interesting to see how well he manages that small chore! A wing and a prayer come to mind!

It has been an open secret for years that there is rivalry between the two providing councils as to the provision of a green waste service and it now appears that our district council elected members have simply walked head long into proving the county with all the needed reasons for reducing the waste service in Spalding, which also serves such a wide local area.

Did our elected members, who apparently “just wanted to give it a go”, not consider the wider and more strategic issues, which such a trial would open up and the implications to follow?

Well, they of course need to be congratulated in giving such a small minority a first class waste service whilst us silent majority of some 97 per cent will just have to suffer.

Wayne Seaborn
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