Bins and recycling to be collected earlier in the day this week

Early bin collection times this week

From Gloucester City Council:

Due to the very high temperatures expected this week, waste and recycling crews will start earlier on Wednesday 10th, Thursday 11th and Friday 12th August. This arrangement is for the safety of crews, reducing the time they will be out in extreme heat. Please put bins and containers out the night before as long as safe to do so, or by the earlier time of 6:00am.

We will provide a further update if these arrangements need to continue. Please let friends, neighbours and family know if this change affects them.

Blackbridge project – call for questions

The Blackbridge Community Charitable Benefit Society (BCCBS) will be putting out a newsletter in late August with an update on many aspects of the Blackbridge project, in order to provide information to residents and answer their questions.

A lot of residents have asked questions on similar themes so it would be useful to make the information as helpful and comprehensive as possible, if residents could email me any questions they think it would be useful to have answered, to seb4podsmead@gmail.com. I will need these questions by Monday 8th August if possible.

The BCCBS will then use the questions to help prepare the fact sheet and make the update as useful and helpful as possible.

This newsletter will be delivered across the ward and I will ask for copies to be made available widely.

Dangerous barbed wire near footpath – please take care

After contact from a resident, I contacted the council over the barbed wire that is near to the footpath on Cole Avenue. This appears to be where XPO Logistics have take a fence down at the rear of their depot, leaving barbed wire and loose fence posts.

I have raised this as an urgent safety issue with the council and would urge residents to take care when walking in the area.