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<\/p>\nThe Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport also said the booking system at Tyseley Household Recycling Centre would be scrapped to improve “accessibility.”<\/p>\n
Fly-tipping remains an issue on Tarry Road in Alum Rock(Image: Wajid Hussain)<\/p>\n
Birmingham City Council’s bins boss pledged the return of free bulky waste collections if Labour win next month’s local elections.<\/p>\n
Councillor Majid Mahmood announced on Saturday (April 18) that every household would be entitled to the service if his party was to triumph on May 7.<\/p>\n
Labour originally scrapped the free bulky waste scheme under cost-cutting plans designed to save the city council \u00a31 million.<\/p>\n
Read More: Handsworth incident live as police and ambulances respond ‘near HMO’<\/a><\/p>\n It was replaced with a fee paying service which has paused for more than a year due to ongoing industrial action by Unite the Union members.<\/p>\n Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport also said the booking system at Tyseley Household Recycling Centre would be scrapped to improve “accessibility.”<\/p>\n Ensure our latest headlines always appear at the top of your Google Search by making us a Preferred Source.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to activate or add us as your Preferred Source in your Google search settings.<\/p>\n He said: “Following the success of our expanded mobile household waste service and improvements made to our household recycling centres, we are now going even further.<\/p>\n “In the next Labour term, we will introduce a free bulky waste collection for every household in the city.”<\/p>\n After repeating the pledge, he said: “No barriers, no hassle, just a simpler way to get rid of unwanted household items.”<\/p>\n Scrapping bulky waste collections is said to be one of the reasons behind the explosion in fly-tipping across the city.<\/p>\n Despite enforcement, CCTV and other measures, sofa, mattresses, furniture and other household waste is commonly dumped on roadsides and caused anger and frustration and national embarrassment.<\/p>\n Prior to the suspension of bulky waste collections, the council charged just under \u00a350 to remove 10 items with two bin bags count as an item.<\/p>\n Birmingham<\/a>, Sandwell<\/a>, Walsall<\/a>, Solihull<\/a> and Coventry will hold all out elections in May.<\/a><\/p>\n Here, a year-long bin strike, the need for intervention by external commissioners and appalling examples of failure, poor leadership and mismanagement – some first exposed by BirminghamLive – have had a stinging impact on Labour’s reputation locally.<\/p>\n Party insiders warn that the message they are getting on the doorstep is unequivocal – ‘they don’t want Labour running the city any more,’ said one. ‘They want change.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport also said the booking system at Tyseley Household Recycling Centre would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[8061,8060,5,6],"class_list":["post-17409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","tag-birmingham-city-council","tag-fly-tipping","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116434116481941515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}