A resident who has not had a bin collection for six months since moving on to a new-build estate is seeking a 100% council tax rebate as compensation.<\/p>\n
Bins finally arrived on Hawthorn Meadows in Buckley, Flintshire, last month but Nathan Long and 60 other households can still only watch as refuse workers collect rubbish or recyclables from a nearby street.<\/p>\n
Long said he wanted a rebate as he had been required to pay council tax since moving in and despite disposing of rubbish in skips provided by the estate developer.<\/p>\n
The council said it was “working to resolve the situation” but a “multi-step setup process must occur” before new waste and recycling collection services are set up.<\/p>\n
“It feels like we are not getting anywhere,” said Long.<\/p>\n
“We complain and we get responses that in part pass the buck on to others and in part pledge to do something about the problem.<\/p>\n
“Meanwhile, we are sitting here watching bin crews collecting rubbish from across the road and wondering if they will ever come to us.”<\/p>\n
Mr Long is waiting to hear from the local authority about his request for a council tax rebate.<\/p>\n
He added: “When we received our bins we thought that was the signal.<\/p>\n
“But another month has passed and still nothing.<\/p>\n
“At one point I went to lodge a formal complaint about the situation and was told I couldn’t as technically we hadn’t missed a collection.”<\/p>\n
Katie Wilby, council chief officer for streetscene and transportation, said: “While we normally expect developers to arrange these services before residents move in, we are currently working to resolve the situation for the occupied properties.<\/p>\n
“A council officer will visit the site to confirm occupancy, perform safety checks, and integrate eligible homes into the collection system as quickly as possible.”<\/p>\n
Castle Green Homes said it would continue to provide skips for residents at its own cost until the matter is resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A resident who has not had a bin collection for six months since moving on to a new-build…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-769766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}