Wheelie bins could soon be coming right up your street!
A long-planned expansion of York's wheeled bin network is set to start next month after a two-year delay.
City of York Council's initial plans to introduce them to more than 17,000 homes met with a wave of public concern, particularly about central collection areas to which the bins would have to be moved.
Residents living in terraced streets were also concerned about difficulties in moving the bins.
Opposition was so high that a telephone hotline set up to deal with the issue received 100 calls in its first day, and Councillor Martin Brumby, at the time the council's head of the environmental services committee, eventually promised they would not be introduced to areas where the residents did not want them.
Now, 5,000 new bins will be sent out to homes across the city.
Stewart Grieves, the council's client services manager, said: "They will be going to the terraced areas where they were not complained about, and other houses which did not get them when they were given out previously."The introduction of the new bins will mean there are about 60,000 in the city.
Mr Grieves said: "Anybody who hasn't got a wheeled bin now will be receiving one in the next few weeks, unless their street voted against their introduction.
"If that is the case, the existing system of bin bags will remain. We have said that the wheeled bins will only go out to those areas that want them."City of York Council has also bought three new refuse collection trucks costing £125,000 each.
The trucks, which are already in use, are slimline so that they can be driven through back streets.
The council initially intended to introduce wheeled bins to 10,000 terraced households and 7,500 homes in suburban areas.
Affected residents will be notified by the council in the next few weeks.
Updated: 09:19 Monday, August 13, 2001
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