Monday's Cabinet papers included a real old stager under the "New Options" appendix. This was charging for bulky waste collection. The free collection policy was established under the 1998-2006 Labour administration, abolished by the Tory Lib Dem coalition of 2006-2010, and reinstated by the incoming Labour administration in 2010. Introducing charging was considered by Labour in 2014/15 but again rejected.
Officers are estimated the income at £250 thousand, although nothing like this has ever been obtained in the past. When the charges were last introduced in 2007, the revenue was only £53k, and it went down subsequently. Given that experience, there really is no excuse for Council officers to put forward an estimated income of £250k now.
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