If you’d rather live in a clean and tidy village, ideally we’d have to ban food wrappings, or persuade everyone to take their litter home … until that happens – we’d really appreciate your help on the next village litter pick next Saturday (22/2). Starting from the parish council office next to the bowls pavilion […]
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Green Bin Survey Results
You will remember that we announced a few days ago a survey on ‘s proposed changes to winter green bin collections. This closed on Wednesday evening and we now have the results. We had a total of 147 full responses (and 34 incomplete responses which we’ve not included in the results) (According to the 2011 […]
Green Bin Survey
Following on from our news about ‘s proposed changes to winter green bin collections and much debate on the milton-chat mailing list we are running a little survey to try to gauge villagers’ views on this: on what they think of the proposal, how it should be done, and how it would affect them. If […]
Changes to Green Bin Collection
‘s new budget published this week outlines how cuts to national grant funding mean further savings equivalent to £20 for every band D home are needed and, to meet the bulk of the savings target, the council is looking to re-design some of the blue bin collection rounds along with moving to a monthly green […]
Christmas opening hours for County Council
Our mobile library service is not affected by the Christmas holidays but some other services provided by are. All of the Household Recycling Centres, including the one on Butt Lane, will be open during the festive period except Christmas, Boxing and New Year’s Day – they will also close early at 1pm on Christmas Eve. […]
Recycling your old Directories
As the (now much shrunk) Thompson Local is again dropping onto doormats around the village a reminder that directories can be recycled in the paper caddy. See the Which bin does this go in? pages on the web site for more.
Village Litter Pick
If you’d rather live in a clean and tidy village, ideally we’d have to ban food wrappings, or persuade everyone to take their litter home … until that happens – we’d really appreciate your help on the next village litter pick next Sunday (3/11). Starting from the parish council office next to the bowls pavilion […]
“Charity” Collections
That we have had two different charity collection bags through the door this week both for Tuesday has caused some amusement over on the milton-chat mailing list but perhaps it’s a good time to remind people of this post made here in 2009. Little has changed since, and as Martin pointed out the next Scouts […]
Directory Recycling
As telephone are coming though letterboxes around the village again a reminder that you can re-cycle all directories, including Yellow Pages, by putting them in the caddy in the blue bin. The plastic wrapper can go in the blue bin itself.
Village Litter Pick
Are you annoyed by litter in the village? Come and help do something about it! The next village litter pick organised by the Parish Plan Environmental Group will be next Sunday (10/2), starting from the parish council office next to the bowls pavilion in Coles Road at 2pm. If you know you are intending to […]