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Council failed to consult properly over communal bins

10.10.50pm GMT Tue 23rd Mar 2004

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Questions have been raised over the 'inadequate' consultation over City Clean's new communal bin pilot.

Lib Dem Councillors Dawn Davidson (Regency) and Paul Elgood (Brunswick & Adelaide) have given evidence to the Communal Bins Scrutiny Panel, tasked with investigating the consultation over the introduction of the pilot.

Councillor Davidson, whose scrutiny request initiated the investigation said: 'Residents have been increasingly aggrieved by what they perceived was a totally inadequate and flawed consultation process.'

Councillor Elgood said: 'The council failed to undertake any kind of meaningful consultation. It meant we were always working blind, never sure of where residents either supported or opposed the pilot.'

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