Frustrated residents around Southport are saying that Sefton Council should give back some of their expensive council tax after bins went uncollected over Christmas.
Hard working binmen were asked to give up their Christmas to collect bins without any form of bonus for their trouble.
Sefton Council say they couldn’t find enough volunteers and told people not to put their brown bins out, resulting in thousands of overflowing bins and a backlog of rubbish building up during Christmas.
Letter to the editor-
Persistent Non-collection of Brown Bins by Sefton Council
One resident, Caren Roberts of Carr Lane, Birkdale, wrote to OTS News to say “It’s now three weeks since our brown bins were collected and we keep being told to wait until next week.
”They haven’t been missed. They just are simply not being collected. What do we pay £2,000 a year for if not this?
“My husband and I pay a substantial monthly council tax of nearly £250 and I’m not alone in asking for a refund for December.
”What else do they do?
“I’m considering hiring a local firm to collect my rubbish instead and I’ll forward the bill to Sefton Council. It seems only fair, considering they have not fulfilled their side of our council tax agreement.”
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