14 October (Part 2) - Bins and Buddleia
The refuse service was next on the Places Agenda and Councillors led by Sally
Hinkley (Labour, Belvedere) thought that things must be getting better as
bin collection complaint levels are well down but there are rampant weeds everywhere. What has
happened to the weed spraying programme? The Agenda referred to three chemical
applications this year but there is no evidence of anything being done in Belvedere.
Councillor Slaughter also said she had never seen as many weeds as there are now in Sidcup.
She has taken to removing foot high weeds in her own road herself. Councillor
Gower (Conservative, Bexleyheath) said the problem is likely to be borough wide
as it is the same where she lives. Ditto Councillors Ball (Labour, Erith) and Lucia-Hennis
(Crayford).
in related street cleaning news there will be 300 new litter bins placed across the borough.
Cabinet Member Diment was asked to comment on the new arrangements designed to
limit rubbish dumping at the two recycling centres introduced a month ago. He
had heard about delays caused by data collection but overall things were working
quite well and his experience as a resident at Maidstone Road was good. He saw
no problem at Thames Road while visiting in an official capacity. The
potential problem there is that no more than half a dozen cars can queue on site
and any excess disrupts the public road. The problem is being addressed with the
assistance of the Highways Department.