CREWE SOUTH FOCUS 2009

4.34.04pm BST (GMT +0100) Mon 10th Aug 2009

READERS RESPOND TO FOCUS SURVEY

Contacting the council:

Most replies show support for Sandbach as the Headquarters of the new Council.

We shall be taking up your ideas for making it easier and simpler to contact council staff.

Collecting rubbish:

There is very little opposition to the present system of black and silver bin collections in alternate weeks. Most replies show support for free collection of garden waste. An alternative point of view is that the Council should do more to encourage home composting, and also make compost from the brown bin collections to sell.

School Governors

There is general support for the new Council selecting school governors from members of the public who apply. The old County Council system where governors were recruited by the political parties left huge numbers of vacancies!

Council Tax:

Most people who replied say the Conservatives should have kept their pledge to freeze the Council Tax. The minority view is that the present recession makes this unrealistic.

Car Parking:

Answers to these questions vary widely, and it will be hard to get general agreement on charging policy for car parks owned by the Council.

Residents' parking schemes are sought in several parts of the Ward and we want to see progress with this.

Area Working in Crewe:

Mixed responses to these questions, and some confusion with the separate issue of a Town Council for Crewe. We shall return to this topic in future editions of "Focus" because little has yet been decided about how area partnerships will work.