Cardiff - Changes to your recycling

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Daddies

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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I met a surveyor who I know,just before Christmas to do a small job for me. He's probably one the most well known in the area, and the Council also call on him frequently to survey their property portfolio. He told me of a couple of council homes that he had recently been asked by the council to survey as they were about to be vacated. In the one, there was an older lady and her daughter. Her granddaughter had recently died. He asked why they were vacating and they said the council were evicting them because they no longer 'needed' 3 bedrooms. They were being moved into hotel accommodation so that a family from Albania with children could move in. The lady and her daughter had lived in their home for over 20 years.

Than was my source.

[cityhammer]

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Black bins/bags, every 3 weeks !!!!!

Rats dream

Why? Surely all food waste will be in your secure food waste bin!

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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I met a surveyor who I know,just before Christmas to do a small job for me. He's probably one the most well known in the area, and the Council also call on him frequently to survey their property portfolio. He told me of a couple of council homes that he had recently been asked by the council to survey as they were about to be vacated. In the one, there was an older lady and her daughter. Her granddaughter had recently died. He asked why they were vacating and they said the council were evicting them because they no longer 'needed' 3 bedrooms. They were being moved into hotel accommodation so that a family from Albania with children could move in. The lady and her daughter had lived in their home for over 20 years.

Than was my source.

Having too many bedrooms is not a legal reason for evicting any council tenant. An eviction would also need to go through court. Now there is a thing called the bedroom tax which might have made it unaffordable for them to still live there, but as far as an actual eviction, the council would have no legal standing to do so.

[Dembe]

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Like many others....should be on the Alternate Forum board.....not cluttering this one up.

If you want to talk about what "should and should not" be on the main forum, I'd put links to illegal streams further up the list than a thread on recycling

[LeningradCowboy]

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Looking forward to see how the new recycling scheme goes when it's rolled out in Cathays.

[Rjk]

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Looking forward to see how the new recycling scheme goes when it's rolled out in Cathays.

pandemonium

[nomad blue]

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Cardiff Council are moving tenants into hotel accommodation if their current housing is too big - ie a 3 bed house for a couple with 1 child. A 'homeless' non-UK family are then given the council house.

Do you have anything to back this up? As otherwise it looks like anti-immigrant BS.

Edit: missed your "source" originally, sounds like total gammony made-up bollocks.

[BLUETIT]

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Why? Surely all food waste will be in your secure food waste bin!

You honestly believe the students of Roath/Cathay’s, stick to the rules ??

Last time I worked down that way, there were more Gulls in the street, than people

[bobh]

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You honestly believe the students of Roath/Cathay’s, stick to the rules ??

Last time I worked down that way, there were more Gulls in the street, than people

No need for food bins the, if the gulls clean it up?

[splott parker]

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No need for food bins the, if the gulls clean it up?

They even take the food before you’ve finished it.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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No need for food bins the, if the gulls clean it up?

Rats with wings, shoot em!

If they nest on your roof you're not allowed to crack the eggs, sod that !!!

[jon1959]

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This is mainly about English councils (after the recent extra funding from central government) but describes the same pressures on councils in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland:

https://www.local.gov.uk/about/news/councils-warn-cuts-neighbourhood-services-lga-survey

Two thirds of councils surveyed by the Local Government Association (LGA) warn communities will see cutbacks to local neighbourhood services this year – such as waste collection, road repairs, library, and leisure services – as they struggle to plug funding gaps.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/nearly-one-in-10-english-councils-expect-to-go-bust-in-next-year-survey-finds

Nearly one in 10 councils in England have warned they will go bust in the next 12 months as authorities plan widespread cuts, above-inflation council tax rises and across-the-board increases to resident charges, a survey has revealed.

The Local Government Information Unit (LGIU) annual poll of local authority leaders and top managers reveals a near-total collapse in confidence in the financial viability of councils as they grapple with “desperate” pressures and shrinking budgets.

It warns that council insolvencies – once extremely rare and triggered by unusual special factors such as the failure of commercial investments – should now be regarded as “normal occurrences” likely to hit even well run authorities.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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One thing i've noticed is the cost of disabled care, there is so much more help compared to the old days adapted houses, cars, taxis to school day centers their own adapted homes, and the equipment is not cheap and the cost of home improvements. Of course, this is needed and very good for hard-working families who take on a lot of responsibility themselves, but the cost must be massive and will have accounted for a much larger proportion of the money than in the distant past, and I think you could apply this thought to every service provided.

Basically, the NHS, social care and housing services requirements have gone through the roof and will no longer be able to be funded in the long term, some very tough decisions are going to be needed in the coming years., things are just getting worse by the week.