katy
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Come on, credit where it’s due. She has single handedly put Wrexham on the map. Unlike those chancers Rob n Ryan who have just been riding on her coat tails and taking all the credit.
Not only that, she has turned Wrexham from a spice town to a spice city.
They did this in Cheshire West – took away the perfectly good bins that still had many years life left in them and replaced them all with smaller bins. This coming a few years after they took away all the perfectly good bins and replaced them with the same size bin but in a different colour because they fancied a change of colour scheme.
Very strange way to tell people that they should not be creating waste by forcing them to bin perfectly good bins. But that’s council logic for you. Next they will be telling us they are short of money and have to hike up the council tax (oh wait, they have already done that). Almost on the same level as the logic of not providing litters bins because they attract litter.
Would Recycle with Rob n Ryan be better than Recycle with Michael? I’m sure they would do it for free if only for some extra content for their documentary.
The councils statement said “There is significant dog fouling all over the cemetery, even on gravestones, with individuals allowing their dogs to come into the cemetery unsupervised, as well as dog walkers not picking up after their dogs, even though there are dog foul bag dispensers at the cemetery.”
So the problem comes from:
1. Roaming dogs
2. Dog walkers allowing their dogs to their business and not picking it up.Will banning dogs solve the problem?
1. Will roaming dogs see the signs and go somewhere else?
2. Will the dog walkers (the problem ones, who are already happy to ignore the law and allow their dogs to foul without picking it up) obey the request to not walk their dogs through the cemetery?I think the answer to both of the above is no. The problem is not dogs in the cemetery, the problem is dogs defecating and it not being picked up. We already have something in place to deal with that – a law that says you can’t do it and allows fines of upto £1000 for breaches. Why not just police that rule instead of coming with another rule that has exactly the same level of fines (i assume they would be using a PSPO for this).
But this is a council so they will probably waste a load of money implementing this (ignoring any feedback they get back from the tick-box exercise of a consultation) and it will change nothing.
Far easier the keep going cap-in-hand to residents asking for another 9.9% than actually employing accountants that are competent enough to have done this off their own backs.
Plus paying consultants that know where they can buy brown envelopes is always a nice little earner. 10% to you, 2% back to me. Chuckle brothers approach.
So in order to get 200k they spent 183K on two extra staff on 91k each. Nice work if you can get it.
Employees cost is expected to rise from £316k this year to £499k next year. A whopping 58% rise. Are they hiring a load of new employees, or are the existing ones getting a massive pay raise?
I doubt it. They are not paying, so the offices will stay nice and warm all Christmas.
The article on Warm Hubs states “Wrexham Council’s warm hubs will be open between Christmas and New Year” and “council has announced that Warm Places will operate at a number of public libraries”
But then goes on to say that all libraries will be closed over Christmas except for Wrexham.
What’s the point of warm hubs if you close them at the coldest time of year? I guess the walk into Wrexham from Chirk will warm old Betty up.
You need to apply for a Litter Abatement Order. The courts would then demand the council to address the problem (if they agree with you). Start capturing your evidence of the issue. Unfortunately councils don’t like doing what they are supposed to and will only respond to legal action.
At only £28,750 per Ambulance it’s a complete bargain. Who ever negotiated that deal needs a massive bonus.
