FORTNIGHTLY recycling collections are set to be rolled out to an additional 16,600 homes across York over the next few months.

Members of City of York Council’s Executive will be asked to approve the timetable at a meeting next week, leaving only 750 remaining properties within the city’s boundary without a full recycling scheme.

Councillors will also look at options for recycling and household waste collections in Leeman Road, Poppleton Road and Acomb.

Three thousand homes in these areas started receiving fortnightly waste and recycling collections in April, based on the results of a trial in The Groves area.

A council spokeswoman said some residents had been unhappy with the changes, particularly about having to carry refuse to the front of their homes for collection.

If agreed, residents in Beaconsfield Street, Gladstone Street and Milner Street will be given a choice of whether to use wheeled bins or sacks, and whether refuse is picked up from the front of their property or from a central collection point.

A group, comprising local councillors, council representatives, the police and local community groups, might be set up in the Leeman Road area to help residents review the scheme and suggest any necessary changes.