Extend Recycling Services
At present terraced areas of the city do not receive a doorstep recycling service from the Council and are relying on a community group to provide what service there is. A number of Wards such as Micklegate have had to use money from their Ward Committee budgets to pay for this group to bring recycling services to their area. The majority of terraced streets and flats receive no service at all.
Cllr Potter said, "This situation is fundamentally unfair and needs addressing. The Lib Dems have done nothing about this at all. People in terraced areas and in flats should be entitled to receive the same level of service as everybody else in the City. We already know that people in terraced areas receive a massively inferior street cleaning service to those in other areas and this is yet more evidence that the Lib Dems are neglecting the main urban areas of York, most of which they don't represent. People in terraced streets and flats pay their Council tax like everybody else and deserve a more equal service, which is why we made this one of our manifesto pledges."
Cllr Potter continued, "Landfill Tax is costing the Council hundreds of thousands of pounds a year already and this will only get worse so we need to increase the amount of recycling as quickly as possible to bring down the amount of waste that we're producing."
Cllr Potter added, "As part of our campaign we are collecting signatures on a petition asking that recycling services are extended to these areas of the City. This will give the Council information about how many people feel that they should have this service. People living in these areas are ready and willing to recycle but do not currently have the opportunity to do so without having to take their recyclables to a waste site such as Hazel Court. This means using a car and only adds to traffic congestion in the City and to global warming."