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Woking’s Conservative group delivered an early Christmas present to residents on Thursday evening when it put forward a motion to freeze the charges the council levies on residents for green waste collection until 2011.
At the meeting of full council, the group decided that to encourage people to use the green bin collection scheme, it would suspend any price increase during the first year of operation. The council is also planning to introduce weekly food waste collection at the beginning of 2010.
Leader of the Executive John Kingsbury said: “Having considered this issue very carefully and having weighed up the challenges we face in balancing the budget, we felt that increasing the charges for green waste collection in the first year of operation would be wrong.
“The Conservative group is very aware of the lasting effects of the recession on hard-working people in Woking and even if the signs of recovery begin to show it will take a long time to shake off the terrible problems this government has led us into.
“We have already committed to keeping council tax as low as possible for Woking residents and we similarly felt that 2010 was too early to be asking people to pay more for the green bin subscription service.”
