Basildon Council reveals the costs of the waste collection changes brought in by the previous administration.
Basildon's previous Conservative administration brought in changes that required people to separate their recycling into six different sections
The new Labour leader of the Essex council, Gavin Callaghan, said it had put "unnecessary financial" strain on the council’s budget.Last November, the previous administration brought in changes including a fortnightly recycling scheme that required people to separate their recycling themselves into six different sections.A petition was signed by 2,606 people who were frustrated with the changes.
Since the local elections in May, Labour is the largest party at the borough council, after the Conservatives were defeated and no party achieved overall control. He said the new council was also addressing the regeneration of Basildon town centre and tackling the "soaring costs of temporary accommodation, which are currently crippling the council’s budget"."These compounded failures have left Basildon in a precarious financial situation, which we are now working diligently to fix.
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