Have Your Say
Garden waste and household recycling centres consultation
Period: 08 April 2024 - 20 May 2024
Like councils all over the country, Shropshire is facing an unprecedented financial pressure. We must make £62m of savings in 2024/25 to keep a balanced budget, and our plans include difficult decisions, including some that we've never wanted to make.
We must look at other ways of creating income and making savings so that we can protect essential frontline services for those residents most in need.
We're planning to introduce an annual subscription fee for the collection of garden waste from properties in the Shropshire Council area. We're also considering reducing the number of household recycling centres in the county, or reducing their opening times. If you choose to pay an annual subscription fee we would continue to collect your garden bin every two weeks on your usual collection day.
Collecting garden waste isn’t an essential service that councils must provide statutorily, and around 80% of English councils already charge for this service; many have been doing so for several years. You would only pay for the service if you opt in.
It is a statutory duty to provide household recycling centres, but legislation doesn’t specify how many this must be. The authority can decide what is reasonable for local circumstances.
We’re proposing an annual subscription charge of £52, or £1 a week, and you'd be able to sign up at any time of the year. You'd need one subscription for each garden bin that you'd like us to collect.
In this consultation we’re asking whether you'd be willing to pay more than this each year to help to ensure that our five household recycling centres remain open at the same times as they are now.
The survey takes around ten minutes to complete, and we'd like to hear as many people’s views as possible, including alternative suggestions.
The survey can also be accessed at Shropshire Council’s main libraries and at our Shropshire Local facilities in Ludlow and Shrewsbury.
The consultation runs until 20 May 2024.
To access the online consultation, please click on the link below and select "How to get involved" then "Have Your Say"
https://www.shropshire.gov.uk/.../garden-waste-and.../
Paper copies of the survey are available to complete in Shropshire’s main library branches.
You can also respond with any comments in writing:
Email: TellUs@shropshire.gov.uk
Post: Feedback and Insight Team, Shropshire Council, Shirehall, Abbey Foregate Shropshire SY2 6ND.
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Public Space Protection Order
Shropshire Highways has recently submitted a report to cabinet. They are planning a new Public Space Protection Order, (PSPO) that would enable the council’s dog warden service to issue fixed penalty notices of up to £100 to those who fail to clear up dog foul.
Under the PSPO, dogs would also be excluded from play areas and sports areas. They would be required to wear a lead on the public highway. Officers would also have the power to ask for a dog to be put on a lead where they are not under the control of their owner, or are acting aggressively.
An 8 week consultation into the proposal has begun. The consultation runs until 21st December 2023. The findings will then be brought back to cabinet for further consideration and final approval early next year.
People are being asked for their views through a number of questions in a survey about the proposal, along with other feedback, ideas and suggestions. Have your say by visiting:
Alternatively people can get in touch by email or post:
Email: TellUs@shropshire.gov.uk
Post: Tell Us, Feedback and Insight Team, Shropshire Council, Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY2 6ND
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The Local Government Boundary Commission for England is asking for your views on our electoral review of Shropshire. The review will agree new electoral divisions across the council.
• Do you have suggestions about where your electoral divisions should be?
• Where do people in your area go to access local facilities, such as shops and leisure activities?
• Which areas do you identify as your local community?
reviews@lgbce.org.uk www.consultation.lgbce.org.uk
https://newsroom.shropshire.gov.uk/2022/11/have-your-say-on-a-new-political-map-for-shropshire-council/
www.lgbce.org.uk
Review Officer (Shropshire), LGBCE,
PO Box 133, Blyth, NE24 9FE
Consultation closes: 30 January 2023