It would be a good idea only if they emptied the grey bins once a week rather than a fortnight. I think the old system of bin bags worked so why change it!
The reason it has changed is that we all need to recycle more. Lets face it no-one wants a new landfill to be built near them, so we need to do our bit to reduce waste.
We've only been doing it a month and we have found that our grey bins have plent of room due to the boxes been filled up.
It's early days and I'm sure that once all the bins have arrived and things have settled down we will prefer it to the old system. Personally, i'd rather have 1 or 2 large grey bins than the three dustbins I had before, plus now I don't have to go to the council tip every week to drop of my garden waste. Sometimes people are adverse to change, it's better the devil you know etc... but, things have to change and like it or not, it's here with us, so lets make the most of it. I think we ought to start looking at the positives of the new system rather than always looking for what is wrong with it. My glass is half full, and given time, I hope for a top up.
More and more contact us and say and say that it's just not working this grey bin idea, bin men will only take what's in the bin and we have more than the bin will hold and they won't give us two bins because we are not afamily of more than 4.....so the extra lies around for an extra two weeks???
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Curious, it seems you are on to a loser posting on this website, it is not your argument about wheelie bins or traffic lights at the sideslow island, I am sure a lot of people will agree with you and maybe applaud the work you are doing, but the long and short of it is that we live on The Oakalls not The Oxhalls.
I have no objection to people who live outside the Oxhalls I mean Oakalls posting positive stuff about the community, but come on curious make the effort to get the name right.
Have just checked the website of Curious and would like to know where the sweeping statements have their basis - Traffic lights cost £100K - WRONG they would cost more than that. No buses stop outside the Marlbrooke pub - WRONG - there was one there today when I passed by (It is now called the Toby carvery if one was to be pedantic). You also quote - Below is how the council now collect refuse, it is collected via a small van and then tipped outside someone’s house for 6 hours waiting to be collected by a larger truck! Unquote - and showing a picture of a street with bin bags piled up - again WRONG! This is where the wheelie bins come in to eliminate this sort of thing in your picture.
Agree again (will have to stop this!!) with JMCBHX that you are on to a loser here. I know that Uffmoor is not in Bromsgrove directly but near/part of Romsley - correct? Looking at the candidates you are not standing for this ward anyway so again you seem to have a great concern over something that you are unable to do anything about. This is not a political soapbox but a community website so please try and treat it as such. Irrespective of your views there is nothing founded in what you say to make me even want to support you or your policies.
Let the people of Oxhalls - oops sorry again OAKALLS - I'll have to learn where I live - vote on who they feel is the best candidate for the job. December 9th will soon be up on us.
Until the next thrilling installment of Oxhalls goings on - Oops sorry again Typo...........
Curious... what chance have you...? Apparantly you want to stand for local council but, to be fair, I told you from the very beginning of your obvious campaign that we live on THE OAKALLS and even now you get it wrong......! Is this what local councillors are about...? Not listening or totally unaware of the community that you obviously care so much about.... Give us a break... I would vote for someone who knows the community and their needs... both of which...... you don't.
Re: Pastie, where is uffmoor, it's not near Romsley or in Bromsgrove, but I am always ready to learn...quoting yourself dear fellow, if you are going to correct another persons's anxious typing zealour which has depth and possible furtherence...get the places correct would you?...there's an old proverb that fits this attitude and it is, those who live in glass houses should not throw stones?!...this being meant in the best possible way of course/cause!
Curious
Looking at other threads that you have added to/started off it seems that you are really a wind up merchant who finds nothing better than putting political ramblings on to a web site that does not concern you. Clearly, you have a totally patronising nature and there is no need to quote proverbs either. Big words are a way of not fully understanding what is ongoing - is there such a word as furtherence? Small words, bullet points and straight to the point are the best way to communicate or is that an impossibility for you? Why say 5 words when 155 will do?
Well now pastie, could we be friends?..perhaps not if you don't understand big words like 'attitude'...sorry, no more dialogue from me, by the way if dialogue gets you in tizzy and makes you stretch for your dictionary, it means, no more chat...period and period means...full stop!...there are other words but 'admin' would not allow them....byeee!!
What we DON'T need is yet more houses! Bromsgrove services/infrastructure are overstreched as it is......... Why don't the council consult properly with the residents?
i think we need a small genereal store - like a spar or something like that - and a proper children's playground with swings, slides etc. at the moment the children have to cross the a38 to go to the small one on new road or we have to drive to sanders par.
i think we need to co-ordinate our efforts and meet with the council to see what can be done. first step is to stop gallaghers being allowed to develop more homes...
We need to form a lobby group and be prepared to take action. Gallaghers will use the five year clause to develop the site with more houses and I do not think the council and or Julie K will be in a position to stop them. It will rest with Westminster and I am sure John Prescott will agree the plan as it fit's his schedule of high density housing .
We have been sold down the river by the developers , no play area's , no shops , no nursery just a concrete jungle with massive traffic problems.
In respect of the lobby group (Sydney), I have already written to Cllr Caroline Spencer regarding setting up a residents group for exactly this sort of thing. If more people do this as well it can soon take off. Caroline has offered to sort this for the estate in general with a meeting perhaps in Finstall Village Hall to elect a committee to deal with this sort of thing. We need to be heard as one voice, at once, not as several small voices murmering. Come on, lets do it!
It would be a good thing to set up an Oakalls residents association to deal with this problem and any other future problems also to act as a ginger group to maintain, develope and improve the Oakalls as a whole.
Would it help to set up a Community Association or Residents Association if I offered a venue for a preliminary meeting? I am writing as the local vicar and also as a resident of the Oakalls but my interest is entirely in helping the community to develop as a community.We could offer the Church Hall at St Godwald's for a meeting place no conditions attached!
In reply to Sam Jones: the council don't consult with the residents precisely because they are fully aware of their previous agreements with Gallaghers (see 'Sydney's' comments: spot on!)
Sydney: nice comments!
More new housing: no thanks!
I tend to agree with 'janiepoos': something along the lines of the Warndon Village developement perhaps with a shop, post office? (But don't forget shops bring their own inherent problems: parking, litter etc.) Will we need a 'kids curfew' as happened on the Charford estate?? So to John F yes we do need to establish some sort of group
If something other than housing is approved, and Gallaghers agree to sell the land or lease it, what we have to make sure about is that whatever retail premises are proposed and built, they do not attract gatherings of youths which will not only come from The Oakalls. Chip shops, off-licenses etc generally attract groups of kids hanging about and this normally results in litter, graffiti etc and though i'm sure that the kids on The Oakalls would not take part in such behaviour, there friends from other areas may not be so well behaved.
The land is vaued at about £ 1 million pounds per acre, I would imagine this price is applicable zoned as residential use. I cannot see any potential shopkeeper or nursery justifying a business plan around that investment. Have we gone off the idea of taking up the offer of Rev T to use St Godwald's???
dro31: I agree with you. Are we really prepared to risk having problems such as these on the estate for the sake of being able to buy milk and stamps conveniently?
sydney: Shops on the estate never made any business sense to me either!
I have not heard from Caroline regarding the residents association set up but will pursue. In order to do this properly we need more people to 'throw their hat into the ring' and offer to be on a residents association. I for one would be and would be more than happy to take up Rev T's offer of the church hall.
I feel that there would need to be a committee of about 12 people in order to form a reasonable voice and share workloads.
If more people show willing on this website that would be a start. There are 800+ homes here with only a couple of willing volunteers to date.
Lets spread the word if we are to make it work. It can and will work if we can publicise it enough and get more people with similar views interested.
The land is worth about £1.3m per acre. Gallaghers did well not to have to provide some Social Housing on the original planning consent and if the planners did clear the area for more houses then undoubtably there would be a deal including social housing.
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