ePetition - Removal of household bins in Auckland Drive
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Removal of household bins in Auckland Drive
Residents were notified in October 2025 about plans to remove
current household bins and replace with communal bins in 2
locations along Auckland Drive. Residents raised complaints
detailing their concerns to the refuse collection suppliers and to
local councillors, with no reply. The suppliers have since
contacted residents again to give notice that their scheme will
commence in January 2026.
Residence have raised concerns including (but not an exhaustive
list):
Health and Safety of residents, including elderly, those with
limited mobility, those with young children especially single
parent households unable to walk half way down the road and back to
dispose of their rubbish and recycling.
Risk of increased vermin in the area.
Increased risk of fly tipping in the area
Loss of parking bays in an area already struggling with parking,
especially with the increased vehicles from the increasing number
of HMO's and university students using the site on the industrial
site
Effect on house values
Potential for this scheme to be rolled out across the estate
resulting in further pressure on parking, fly tipping and
vermin
So far the council have not listened to the valid concerns of
residents
This ePetition ran from 18/12/2025 to 28/01/2026 and has now finished.
83 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
Response provided by the Cabinet Member for Net Zero & Environmental Services at Full Council on Thursday 29 January 2026:
Thank you for representing your residents on this issue. I want to thank them for bringing the petition. Obviously, we've been in touch with them for some time. Completely understand the concerns of the residents. I think it's been acknowledged that the topography and the layout at the location does present significant challenges for our crews who obviously do very difficult work and we do owe it to them to do everything that we can to ensure that they're able to work safely. But we do accept that the initial engagement with local residents could have been handled better and we've since paused the proposed rollout of communal bins pending a deeper look at the issues and options for resolving them.
Councillors and officers, and I know you were there Councillor Taylor, I wanted to be there myself but I was out of town unfortunately, joined residents earlier this month to walk around the site, discuss the issues and look at potential options. I'm told it was a productive meeting and we're now working on a way forward and I believe the next step will be a further meeting with residents in due course and I can assure residents in the area that no further steps will be taken without their involvement. Thank you very much.