A quick reminder that Oadby St.Peter’s residents who would usually have a garden waste collection today will have it collected later this week between Tuesday 23rd April and Friday 26th April due to the Bank Holiday.
You’ll need to make sure your garden waste bin(s) is at the edge of your property each day by 7am until it has been emptied.
Local people have said “No” to plans by the Conservatives at County Hall to merge Oadby and Wigston with all the other districts in Leicestershire and the County Council.
Nearly 9 out of 10 responses to the Borough Council’s survey rejected the idea. The Liberal Democrat Leader of the Oadby and Wigston, John Boyce has written to County Council Leader to highlight residents’ concerns about losing influence in a much bigger unitary council and the likely reduced services and increased costs from such a move.
The full story is here.
Refuse and Recycling collections are to stay weekly, your Focus team are pleased to report.
Liberal Democrat-run Oadby and Wigston Borough Council is now one of the few authorities in the country to offer weekly collections for residents.
Cllr. David Carter said, “Local residents tell us in council surveys that they want black wheelie bins with weekly collections. I’m delighted that we will keep weekly collections when new black bins are introduced in the summer.”
None of the other district councils in Leicestershire have weekly blag bag/bin collections and elsewhere in the country, councils collect this rubbish every two, three or even four weeks.
Despite cuts over successive years by the Conservative Government, David Carter and other Liberal Democrat councillors have carefully managed scarce local government funds and safeguarded weekly collections in Oadby and Wigston.