One of Trafford's leafy and most affluent suburbs is being plagued by unreliable bin collection services because of staff absences on Mondays. The council's executive member for environmental services Coun Stephen Adshead told a Trafford council meeting how waste services had hit problems since Labour took control of the authority three years ago.
He was responding to questions by newly-elected Bowdon Coun Shengke Zhi who said the issue of irregular and missed collections by contractor Amey has prompted numerous complaints from residents. Coun Adshead explained: "On Mondays, there are heavier [work]loads, so if we have staff absences on Mondays as there has been on occasions this has a knock-on effect to the following Mondays, where sometimes they can not always complete the rounds.
"During the spring this problem went away but in the summer it reoccurred again. However, we are concerned that this could arise again and we are looking at how we can improve Monday services and an action plan has been put together."
