Hayburn Avenue refuse collection

John Fareham and John Abbott are working to preserve tenfoot collection of refuse on Hayburn Avenue in the light of incidents involving damage to property by refuse collection vehicles.

We have received representations regarding the current size of dustcart being unsuitable for use in local tenfoots and bumping into local residents’ properties.  The council are in the process of acquiring new vehicles which will be more suitable for use in these and other narrow tenfoots and, whilst respecting the concerns of property owners that the current vehicles are unsuitably large, we take the view that the new vehicles should be suitable to avoid a recurrence of such problems in the future.  It goes without saying that, in the meantime, we remain prepared to address any issues which may arise with the current vehicles and the manner in which they are driven, but we firmly hope that the replacement vehicles will be a satisfactory means of preventing the recurrence of vehicular damage to properties.