Archive for month: April, 2020
Gedling Borough Council reinstates glass collections
Gedling Borough Council is reinstating glass collections across the borough from Saturday 2 May. The decision was made by the Leader, Deputy Leader and Chief Executive last week after listening to the concerns of residents balanced alongside the considerable pressure Coronavirus has placed on frontline council staff, including refuse collectors.
The council will begin the process with a special collection this Saturday, to deal with the backlog of glass boxes with staff working extra hours to meet the demand.
The council has been able to maintain critical waste and recycling services despite staffing shortages caused by the Coronavirus outbreak. The council drafted in staff from the leisure centres to help ensure critical services could continue and are now ready to begin the process of collecting glass.
Residents can find out when their glass boxes will be collected by signing up to the council’s free email bin alert reminders or by visiting the website www.gedling.gov.uk
The Leader and Deputy Leader of the Council, Councillor John Clarke and Councillor Michael Payne said:
“Coronavirus has placed immense pressure on our heroic frontline workers, including our refuse collectors. We are grateful to residents for their understanding and patience at this challenging time – prioritising critical services and protecting the welfare of our staff had to come first. We were keen to reinstate glass collection as soon as it was safe and possible to do so, we were pleased that last week we were able to take the decision. It is testament to the dedication and commitment of our staff that we were able to reinstate the collections.
Our staff have being working tremendously hard to keep our critical services going and they are now going the extra mile by offering to work extra hours and days to begin collecting glass. The support residents have shown our waste crews as they have collected bins on a daily basis has been overwhelming and hugely appreciated.
We would also ask residents to let their elderly neighbours and anyone in self isolation know about this announcement, in a safe way, as some of them may not have access to the internet.”
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Calverton Mansfield Lane Cemetery – reopened
Following receipt of updated guidance today 6 April 2020 a decision has been made to re-open the cemetery. Please bear in mind the current Government Restrictions on movement and social distancing
6.—(1) During the emergency period, no person may leave the place where they are living without reasonable excuse.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a reasonable excuse includes the need—
(a)
to obtain basic necessities, including food and medical supplies for those in the same household (including any pets or animals in the household) or for vulnerable persons and supplies for the essential upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household, or the household of a vulnerable person, or to obtain money, including from any business listed in Part 3 of Schedule 2;
(b)
to take exercise either alone or with other members of their household;
(c)
to seek medical assistance, including to access any of the services referred to in paragraph 37 or 38 of Schedule 2;
(d)
to provide care or assistance, including relevant personal care within the meaning of paragraph 7(3B) of Schedule 4 to the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Groups Act 2006(3), to a vulnerable person, or to provide emergency assistance;
(e)
to donate blood;
(f)
to travel for the purposes of work or to provide voluntary or charitable services, where it is not reasonably possible for that person to work, or to provide those services, from the place where they are living;
(g)
to attend a funeral of—
(i)
a member of the person’s household,
(ii)
a close family member, or
(iii)
if no-one within sub-paragraphs (i) or (ii) are attending, a friend;
(h)
to fulfil a legal obligation, including attending court or satisfying bail conditions, or to participate in legal proceedings;
(i)
to access critical public services, including—
(i)
childcare or educational facilities (where these are still available to a child in relation to whom that person is the parent, or has parental responsibility for, or care of the child);
(ii)
social services;
(iii)
services provided by the Department of Work and Pensions;
(iv)
services provided to victims (such as victims of crime);
(j)
in relation to children who do not live in the same household as their parents, or one of their parents, to continue existing arrangements for access to, and contact between, parents and children, and for the purposes of this paragraph, “parent” includes a person who is not a parent of the child, but who has parental responsibility for, or who has care of, the child;
(k)
in the case of a minister of religion or worship leader, to go to their place of worship;
(l)
to move house where reasonably necessary;
(m)
to avoid injury or illness or to escape a risk of harm.