Councillor Lynne Grimshaw Welcomes the Rubbish Rule-Changes?

As both a County Councillor and an Ashington Town Councillor Lynne Grimshaw welcomes the new rule changes that have been designed to try to stop the national rise in fly tipping incidents.

The new rules require Councils to increase the amount of waste they collect to help tackle the ‘epidemic’ of fly tipping, some of the changes will be to ensure households can tip DIY waste for free and that the Government expects Councils to increase their recycling efforts to make it easy for families without access to transport to dispose of household waste and bulky furniture correctly by making collection free of charge.

The Government is proposing to put some additional cash into this project by paying for extra CCTV surveillance cameras to be fitted in fly tipping blackspots.

Councillor Grimshaw told us that: “ along with my colleagues at Ashington Town Council I have a great interest in the ‘Keep Britain Tidy’ campaigns and I wholeheartedly support the ‘new deal’ for residents as Ashington is one of the Towns in Northumberland with high rates of transport deprivation and with huge numbers of households with low access to vehicles.

The system of recycling items which can’t be put into your recycling bin needs full access to a vehicle to take items to your local recycling centre at present and the help offered in the new paper from the Government will certainly aid a good number of people living in Northumberland as all charges for disposal are hopefully being scrapped.”

“Although I also welcome the inclusion of CCTV into the funding arrangements from Government I hope this is ‘New Money’ and Councils don’t have to resite their current CCTV Camera stock into these areas as they are currently used in places of need to protect people, I will certainty be asking at the Audit meetings of the
County Council to ensure this isn’t another austerity rip off from Westminster.”