The number of rubbish and recycling collections being missed has risen in Brighton and Hove, according to a new report.
Performance indicators for refuse and recycling suggest that the service is deteriorating, with the report to councillors flagging up the issue.
From January to March this year the Brighton and Hove City Council averaged 79 missed weekly refuse collections out of every 100,000.
Recycling is worse with 175 missed per 100,000.
The council’s target for both is no more than 46 missed collections.
The issue is flagged in a report to the council’s Policy, Resources and Growth Committee which meets this afternoon.
There are more than 110,000 households in Brighton and Hove.
Messages on the Refuse and Recycling Twitter account reveal daily complaints relating to individuals properties as well as missed collections from communal bins.
Weekly monitoring as well as a modernisation programme are under way to tackle the problem, the council said.
Currently 763 people have signed a petition on the council’s website, created by Patcham resident Arron Rickson, calling on the council to develop an action plan to deal with missed collections.
Mr Rickson said: “Interesting figures. Be interesting how they come up with the numbers.
“It’s a shame with regards to petition as so many people have been frustrated but haven’t signed.
“My personal road has been better but from Facebook the last couple of weeks look awful.”
Multiple complaints to the council’s refuse and recycling department on Twitter include incidents of fly-tipping next to communal bins.
Issues reported in just a few hours earlier this week included rubbish on the pavement in Bonchurch Road, North Road, Over Street and Elder Place.
From April to December 2017, 28.7 per cent of household waste collected in Brighton and Hove was sent for reuse, recycling, composting or anaerobic digestion.
This misses the 40 per cent target but is the council’s best performance in the past eight years.
Among other missed performance indicators is street litter.
During checks between January and March, 4.3 per cent of streets in the city were not “predominantly free of litter and refuse except for some small items”.
Cash from fines is being used to provide a number of measures to prevent litter, dog fouling and graffiti, the report said.
The council’s key performance indicators are due to be discussed at the Policy, Resources and Growth Committee at 4pm today at Hove Town Hall.
The meeting is open to the public.
I work near Brighton Station.. there are now just two of the new Big Belly bins got at huge expense. There were three but one got damaged by a vehicle and was taken away over a month ago. Each allegedly hold up to 8 times the capacity of the old bins, of which there were around 12, as they have a soft compactor inside. They also send a message to Cityclean when they require emptying. However this does not happen. Particularly at weekends they are overflowing by 10am with rubbish going everywhere. They usually don’t get emptied until the late team take over around 3pm. What a welcome to the city for all our visitors and residents alike. Clearly they need to empty them more often. The area used to be jet washed once a week early on Sunday morning. This no longer happens since the new layout was completed at a cost of well over £1,000,000.
Probably explains why the Labour canvasser at my door recently tried to claim that the Greens and Tories were running the council, not Labour!
what is the legal process for taking the council to court for failing to empty your bins?