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Birmingham City Council - why can't they keep the streets clean?

I have received a number of complaints recently about the failure of street cleaning across Yardley (and a considerable number specifically from Acocks Green).

My constituents have asked why Solihull MDC can keep the streets clean, but not Birmingham. The Labour Party would like to say "money". Well I have the estimated budgets for the next financial year (which starts on 1st April 2014).

For the next financial year Birmingham will be spending (including government grant) around £2,587.09 per dwelling and Solihull will be spending only £1,831.52 per dwelling.

Hence Birmingham hasn't got enough money when it gets £700 per dwelling more than Solihull. Solihull has enough money.

Birmingham does, however, have enough money to spend tens of millions of pounds on wheelie bins. Politics is about choices. Labour, now they have control of the city council, have clearly decided to accept rubbish on the streets.

The Labour administration in Birmingham need to wake up and smell the coffee. They are in charge of the priorities. My constituents want the city kept clean. There is, in fact, good evidence that this reduces crime. It is not a trivial issue. My constituents are right about this.

We are poaching Solihull's Chief Executive. Maybe he will get Labour to see sense. I don't blame Stephen Hughes for the mess on the Streets I blame Sir Albert Bore and the Labour Councillors.

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Unknown said…
I can't see how BCC thinks it will be saving money or breaking even. If only a small percentage of the public pay £35 per year then BCC will be obliged to collect green waste across the city making it completely uneconomical and lose money trying to fulfil its duties. Its the same cost in diesel to collect from 1 person in a street as it is to collect another 99 in the same street. Have they gone mad? John Hemming
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