Dales’ residents invited to participate in District Council’s autumn forums

 Local residents are being urged to take part in the next round of Area Community Forums to be staged across the Derbyshire Dales this autumn

 Hot topics up for discussion include a ‘You Said – We Did’ feedback session, a Good News briefing from Chief Executive Dorcas Bunton, an ‘Efficiencies’ workshop session, an update on recycling issues and a popular Questions & Answers session.

 Council Leader Councillor Lewis Rose OBE said: “These forums continue to be important to us in reaching out to local people and listening to what they have to say.

 It’s a great opportunity for local people to get involved and we would urge anyone who hasn’t attended a forum before to come along.”

 Residents can pick up some handy tips on how to recycle more and there’ll be an update on future waste and recycling issues.  There’ll also be an opportunity to take part in The Budget Game where participants will be asked how they would spend the Council’s money and whether they have any suggestions for savings.

 The Forums will take place at Wirksworth Memorial Hall on Tuesday 18^th October, Parwich Village Hall on Tuesday 25^th October and Eyam Church Centre on Tuesday 1^st November.

 All start at 7 pm and anyone who can’t attend in person can email questions in advance to communityforum@derbyshiredales.gov.uk or via the District Council’s Facebook and Twitter pages @derbyshiredales.  The 1^st November forum will also feature a live Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/derbyshiredales

 A Question Time session will enable audience members to ask questions and make comments and suggestions to the various representatives.

 For further details or to be added to our mailing list ring 01629 761302 or email communityforum@derbyshiredales.gov.uk

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The Derbyshire Dales DC online consultation about charging for replacement wheelie bins runs upto the 30th of September (click here to participate in their survey).

As well as the District Council consultation, the Blog Team thought it worth asking some additional questions here. (Click here to see our original post.) There have been some interesting results and comments to our poll which you can still participate in.

We feel that Derbyshire Dales offers an excellent waste collection and recycling service, which compares well with other Authorities, and they respond well to any disruption to collections. What do you think?

Replacement refuse and recycling containers cost the Council some £28,000 per year.

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Bank Holiday bin collections

All waste and recycling collections in the Derbyshire Dales will be one day later than usual next week because of Bank Holiday Monday (29 August).

This means collections next week will include a Saturday collection (on 3 September) for usual Friday rounds.

Use our online postcode search to see which containers to put out – and to download a collection calendar.

For us here in Parwich, Alsop, etc this means our grey general waste bin and food caddy collections will be on Thursday this week Click here to check your Derbyshire Dales bin collection days.

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Derbyshire Dales are participating in a countywide survey of the grey general waste bins:

A survey to help find out what households in Derby and Derbyshire throw away is being launched to highlight what local councils can do to improve recycling services.

Households to be included will be selected at random and contacted by post in early September. Click here more details.

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Derbyshire Dales District Council are investigating ways of meeting the significant funding short falls that will arise from government cuts and are currently seeking input on proposals to charge for replacement bins and for plastic refuse bags, click here for more details. They are conducting an online survey which runs upto the 30th of September (click here to participate in their survey).

We encourage all readers to participate in the District Council survey, but thought it would be interesting to also ask some additional questions here:

Blog Team members, when discussing this post, felt that Derbyshire Dales offers an excellent waste collection and recycling service, which compares well with other Authorities, and they respond well to any disruption to collections. What do you think?

Replacement refuse and recycling containers cost the Council some £28,000 per year.

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Thank you Louise B for posting the following on our Facebook page:

To everyone in Parwich, I have just spoken to DDDC regarding why our bins haven’t been emptied, they have informed me that the contractors are running a day late so now our bins will be emptied tomorrow. DDDC have said to keep our bins out as they may be collected early in the morning.

So make sure you grey general waste bins and food waste caddies are out for early in the morning (Thursday 23rd June).

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 Message from DDDC:

 May Day Bank Holiday bin collections

All waste and recycling collections in the Derbyshire Dales will be one day later than usual next week because of Bank Holiday Monday (2 May).

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Free caddy liners being delivered across Derbyshire Dales

Derbyshire Dales District Council’s annual delivery of free food caddy liners has started to all 34,000 homes in the district.

Undertaken by a dedicated team – not bin emptying crews – the deliveries will take around three weeks to complete.

Dales residents are being advised that if they haven’t received their year’s supply of caddy liners by the end of May they should email waste@derbyshiredales.gov.uk or contact the District Council’s Waste Helpline on 01629 761122 before 30 June.

Caddy liners will not be delivered if requests are made after this date but will be available to buy from the Town Hall in Matlock, from the council’s leisure centres in Ashbourne, Bakewell, Matlock and Wirksworth and from Ashbourne Tourist Information Centre, Bakewell Pet Supplies and Eyam Village Post Office.

Properties that use black sacks for household waste collections will also receive a free roll of sacks during April and May. The same applies to residents who have subscribed to the council’s compostable sacks scheme for garden waste – they will receive a roll of compostable sacks.

Anyone who currently uses black sacks for household waste and hasn’t yet subscribed to the compostable sacks scheme for garden waste can complete the online form at  http://www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/waste or call the Helpline.

If black sacks/compostable sacks have not been delivered by the end of May, residents should contact the District Council before 30 June as sacks will not be delivered after that date.

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This week’s bin collections are back to Wednesday, when the Green garden waste bin including Christmas trees, the Blue recycling bin and the food caddy will be collected.

A big thank you to all our bin men (and the District Council), who provide an excellent service all year round, but who worked especially hard to give us weekly general household waste collections over the holidays, while still maintaining the fortnightly blue recycling bin collections.

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This week’s bin collections are on Thursday, when the Grey general household waste bin and food caddy will be emptied.

This means for us here in Parwich:

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This week’s bin collections are on Thursday (New Year’s Eve), when the Grey general household waste bin, Blue recycling bin and food caddy will be emptied.

This means for us here in Parwich:

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The Christmas bin collections are as follows:

This means for us here in Parwich:

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Double bin collections start this week

A reminder that in addition to your scheduled recycling (blue bin/blue bags) collections, household waste collections are happening this week and next (w/c 21 and 28 December) to help with the usual build-up of festive throw-away material. So don’t forget to put out your grey bins/black bags this week and next.

To help prioritise household waste collections, all garden waste (green bin/compostable sacks) collections are suspended during these two weeks.

Food waste collections will continue to happen weekly and recycling collections fortnightly.

Every household in the district received a Christmas and New Year collections timetable in the October issue of our Dales Matters publication, and a collection calendar is also available to view or download online at http://www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/mycollection

Usual collection days apply Monday-Thursday this week but will be generally later than usual from Christmas Day throughout the festive period.

* Check out our Christmas recycling tips at www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/christmasrecycle

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The Christmas bin collections are as follows:

This means for us here in Parwich tomorrow (Wednesday 16th December) is the last garden waste collection until next year (Wednesday 13th January 2016).

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