Based upon today’s announcement from Uttlesford District Council, please do not expect any waste collection service in Chrishall until week commencing 12th February 2024.
UTTLESFORD LATEST ON WASTE COLLECTIONS
Further progress was made over the weekend and today to empty the unemptied non-recycling grey bins and food waste caddies.
These collections will continue this week. Our patchwork quilt of available vehicles grew consistently throughout last week – from two on the road on Tuesday, up to nine on Friday, and more out over the weekend and today (Monday) which are not regular collection days. However, the availability of vehicles meant that despite best efforts, we were unable to get round to all homes, and covered about 50% of the district. Priority will therefore be made this week in areas that have not already had a collection since the service disruption began on Wednesday 24th January.
Tomorrow (TUESDAY) we will be emptying non-recycling grey bins and food waste caddies in Ashdon and also picking up more unemptied bins in Elsenham, parts of Saffron Walden, and Forest Hall Park, which we visited on Saturday and today but didn’t complete. Subject to the number of vehicles available, the crews will then start collections in the rest of Stansted. We will also have out tomorrow the hard to reach truck – the smaller one that targets narrow roads around the district that our big bin trucks can’t get down.
Various of these hard working crews are operating longer days than usual – so as I send this email out at 4.45pm, some of those vehicles are still on the road today, at the moment around Elsenham.
Please continue to leave your bins out ready for collection. If they have not been emptied yet, they will be.
We won’t be turning to recycling collections until next week.
Again, we are genuinely very sorry for the disruption this has caused and are working as hard as we can to restore the service to normal.
Peter
Peter Holt
Chief Executive
Uttlesford District Council