
Norfolk councils to increase cost of brown bin collection
'Too big'
The two district councils supply households with a brown bin which is collected fortnightly.Grant Nurden, Conservative councillor at Broadland, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "I have a number of residents who have come to me and said they are going to stop paying for the service because of the increases."It's just becoming exponentially too big."The two councils share most of their services but remain politically separate.Broadland is run by a Liberal Democrat-led coalition, while South Norfolk is run by the Conservatives.Council officers stressed the new bin charges were calculated to cover the cost of the service and not to make a profit. They added there had been a continual growth in the number of people subscribing to garden waste collections. Last week, Ipswich Borough Council became the last local authority in Suffolk to introduce a charge for what had previously been a free brown bin collection service.
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