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Leeds bin collections face Christmas shake up

Published in the YEP Saturday 1 December 2012

2540033375Some green and black bins will be collected a day earlier and others a day later than normal this Christmas.

The changes, which affect bins due for collection between Christmas Eve and January 5, have been made by Leeds City Council in a bid to accommodate the festive public holidays.

Leaflets listing the revised dates and advice on how to recycle additional waste from gift wrapping, packaging and entertaining will also drop through residents’ letter boxes between now and December 16.

Brown bin collections will stop after the last usual collection today and resume in March.

Coun Mark Dobson, the council’s executive member for the environment, said: “The lights have been switched on and the German market is taking pride of place on Millennium Square, so the countdown to Christmas is definitely on.

“Another important, if a little less glamorous, part of our seasonal preparations is to ensure that bins are emptied over the holidays and residents are aware of any changes.”

Under the plans green and black bins that were due to be collected on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve will be collected a day earlier than normal.

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Bins usually due for collection from Boxing Day to Saturday December 29 will be collected a day later.

Bins collected on New Year’s Eve will still be collected on that day and from New Year’s Day to Saturday January 5 any bins due for collection will be a day later than normal.

Bin collection days will return to normal on January 7.

Coun Dobson added: “It’s particularly important to recycle any extra waste created by Christmas celebrations and help us maintain the city’s record recycling rates.”

The city’s nine household waste sorting sites, which only close on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, will be open from 8am to 4pm throughout the festive period so people can recycle rubbish and re-use unwanted items.

Visit: www.leeds.gov.uk for further details.

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Entrance leading to Adel Wood Gardens gets a New Handrail

Due to a number of complaints received from the local residents with regard to the steep inclined foot path from the entrance off Long Causeway leading to Adel Wood Gardens your Chair, Francis Garbutt of Adel Crag Association met on site with Cllr Barry Anderson and Christopher Tollick, Neighbourhood Estate Management Officer to discuss where best the handrail should be fitted to assist local residents during bad weather.

We wish to thank Cllr Barry Anderson and Wyn Davis, Area Performance Manager, Christopher Tollick, Neighbourhood Estate Management Officer that the handrail is now in place.

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Estate Inspection

Please note there is to be an Estate Inspection on Friday 30th November 2012.

Should you wish to join us please meet outside Adel Wood Stores shop on Wayland Croft at 10.00 am.

This will be led by Christopher Tollick, Neighbourhood Estate Management Officer and Tenant Inspector.

Area/Estate to be graded Adel Wood Grove, Place, Road, Close, Drive, Gardens, Wayland Approach and Wayland Croft.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Adel Crag gets vintage community notice board

Thanks to a successful Area Panel bid Adel Crag Community Association (ACCA) secured a vintage community notice board for the communal grass area facing Sir George Martin Drive. The lovely notice board was sympathetically chosen so it would fit in with the natural beauty of Adel village.

After careful consideration Adel Crag Community Association decided it would be best for whole of the community to name the notice board ‘Adel Village’. The notice board provides information to residents and to the wider community who do not get to know what’s happening in the area as not all residents have access to the internet to view the Community Association’s website www.adelcrag.org.uk

Chair of ACCA Francis Garbutt said “We are pleased to have received so many positive comments from the residents and how impressed they are about the notice board which has proved to be a success for our local community. We aim to update the notice board weekly generally every Monday.”

Should anyone wish to display an article of events etc on our notice board please click Contact button above. To talk about area panel bids contact your Neighbourhood Management Officer.

Photograph and article published in the Autumn The Buzz Magazine.

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OPAL (Older People’s Action in the Locality)

Booking are now being taken for Wind in the Willows on Thursday 10th Jan at 1.30pm. There will be an OPAL representative and transport available for this show. Join us following Mr Toad and his band of friends on their journey!

The Men’s Group meet once a month, use accessible transport, and trips include lunch. They enjoyed a visit to Rodley Nature Reserve in Sept. In Oct, the men met for a pub lunch and a visit to a Material Recovery Site.  The Tues 6th Nov visit, 10am-3pm, will be to Armley Mills and a pub lunch; cost £12 includes meal and transport.

OPAL shopping trips continue on Thursdays 12.15-4.15pm. Phone the office to book. The cost is £4 and we will pick you up from home.

A trip to Tatton Park Dickensian Christmas is planned for Wed 5th Dec 10am-4.30pm. Tatton Park’s mansion, set in a thousand-acre deer park, takes its inspiration from the well loved novels of Charles Dickens. The main rooms, kitchens, library and cellars, are decorated to reflect Dickens’ works, with music or readings from local performers.  Cost £17.

Friday Coffee Afternoons will be on 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th Nov, all at Tinshill Community Hub, Silk Mill Drive LS16 6DX, 1.30-3.30pm. Cost £1, transport is available for members for £2.

OPAL has 90 volunteer helpers, some will be meeting at the OPAL Office on Thurs 29th Nov 10am-1pm, to put Christmas hampers together for OPAL members who are over 90.

To find more, tel. 261 9103 or see http://www.opal-project.org.uk

Val Crompton