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Like many people on here i rarely put my brown wheely out, maybe 2/3 times a year, i got a warning letter with a threat of a fine because someone had put a bag o sh!@e in my grey wheely on the day of collection, so rather than give the third reich an excuse to fine me i know take black bin bags to the tip once my green wheely is full... Had enough of all this now!! £1500 quid a year for what!! I have never called the police, or fire brigade, No egg run no wirral show, potholes everywhere !! There will be a congestion charge next in birkenhead !!!

Well, would you rather have it in your bin or on the ground? I know what I would prefer.

They're not fixing the potholes in the roads, for sure. Just had to get another wheel bearing done.

In Hoylake and West Kirby, yes, while the rest of Wirral has to make do.

Is it alright calling it a "Bin Tax"

If you don't like it, you can always downsize to a 2 Bin House.

well then lets have a wiki wirral meet 1st of june and dump all our garden waste on the town hall steps hahaha.

edit: that was a joke before a swat team storm my house.

Take pictures of the pot hole and send the council an invoice for the work done to your car.
If they deny the claim see a solicitor cos they will pay up!

http://potholes.co.uk/claims/how_to_claim

Other bins
Charges to dump stuff at the tip

My rates are £2167 pa for a house with 2 adults living there. Come back the Poll Tax (being provocative now I know)

Snod

There is a pavement bin 10 yards away but the buggers STILL dump the bags in my bin. In part that is because the pavement bin is often full - I have seen cars stop and stuff bags of rubbish in the pavement bin. These are often parents dropping kids off at the school just down the road. Nice plan - drop off the kids and minimise the stuff in their own bins by using the pavement bin. Humph ! Yes, I have photographed them but (as yet) have not done anything with the pics.

Snod

Last time I photographed the mums dropping off their kids I got put on the sex offenders list ;-)

I can assure you I am WELL aware of that sort of potential problem and I photograph the cars/ numberplates ONLY

S.

I suggested on the Bedroom Tax thread that once they'd screwed as much as they could out of people in social housing and those on benefits that they'd be looking at other avenues to raise money.

This won't be the last of it, it's just the start.

To those people who thought Bedroom Tax was a fine and fair idea: watch your backs. And your bank balances.

Ive just got the letter through the door.

I found that if you want to enter the scheme late you still have to pay in full. BUT if your bin is not collected then you would only be compensated. Wouldn't it be fair to have the same fee's for both sides.

We dont use the Brown Bin in all fairness.
But my partners mum has a front garden and a back garden can not drive and is a OAP so she is stuck. She has no choice but to pay.

My point being the old and the ones who can not drive end up paying or have limited options.

I wonder if i can just put my green cuttings down the side of my green bin.

I hope someone creates a legal challenge to this. Why should we pay when i would imagine other counties do not?

you can put cuttings in the green bin.I only had hedges didn't have a garden,thats what all the neighbours did no one had brown bins