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Bins

To enable Derbyshire Dales District Council to catch up on all missed waste and recycling collections to date – including excess recycling – councillors have agreed to suspend from this coming Monday (2 August) garden waste collections for a period of 4 weeks.

The Council will be contacting all its garden waste subscribers direct to confirm this narrow decision at an extraordinary council meeting last and to offer them, as recompense, a £15 discount of next year’s subscription price, which had been set at £50. Any new subscribers will pay the full amount.

Suspending garden waste collections for a maximum of 4 weeks (the equivalent of 2 collections) will release 5 drivers to focus instead on catching up with missed collections of household waste and recycling. Last night’s meeting also agreed to the cost of leasing an additional collection vehicle to help cater for an increasing number of subscriptions to the garden waste collection service until 31 March 2022.

In the meantime, as a temporary measure, we’re continuing to ask residents to mix food waste in their usual household waste (grey) bin – or sacks (if they are not on a bins round). To help prevent animals ripping open sacks in search of food waste, residents on sack rounds can put their usual food caddy out alongside their refuse sacks if they wish, but food inside the caddy does need to be contained within a sealed bag.

Please report a missed collection on our website at www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/missedcollection

Parking

Parking will be free after 2pm throughout the month of September in Derbyshire Dales District Council’s car parks in Ashbourne, Bakewell, Matlock, Matlock Bath and Wirksworth – to help stimulate town centres in the recovery from the Covid pandemic.

The estimated £45,000 cost of encouraging shoppers to return to town centres by suspending charges after 2pm in September will be met from the District Council’s Covid Funding Reserve. A report to Tuesday’s meeting estimated the cost of making parking completely free throughout September in the car parks in Ashbourne, Bakewell, Matlock, Matlock Bath and Wirksworth at more than £200,000.