Garden waste collection

Please see https://www.southoxon.gov.uk/south-oxfordshire-district-council/recycling-rubbish-and-waste/garden-waste/gardenwastecollectionchanges/

This month’s Garden waste collections from Dorchester-on-Thames were on Friday 8th October and the next will be on Friday 22nd October.

From the detailed list it looks like all streets are included but let me know if you see one that is missing:

Abingdon Road Beechcroft Bridge End Crown Lane Drayton Road Haven Close Herringcote High Street Jemmetts Close Manor Farm Road Martins Lane Meadside Monks Close Overy Oxford Road Page Furlong Queen Street Queens Close Rotten Row Samian Way Tenpenny The Limes Watling Lane

Come and enjoy afternoon tea and homemade cake

Charity event with all proceeds to the ‘Pride of Nasio’*

Dorchester Abbey Tea Room

Saturday 2nd October and Sunday 3rd October 2:30 until 5:00pm

*Pride of Nasio are a group of young people from the local area who will be raising money to travel to Kenya to volunteer with the Nasio Trust.  Activities will include: house building; working with the Red Cross; helping in the Day Care Centre and community schools

 

Temporary Road Closure, Dorchester on Thames, Queen Street

OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – Section 14(1)

Notice of Temporary Traffic Order
Dorchester on Thames – Queen Street
Prohibition of Through Traffic
Date of Order: 25 October 2021
Coming into force: 1 November 2021

This Order is being introduced because of fibre optic cabling works which are anticipated to be completed on 19 November 2021.

The effect of the Order is to temporarily prohibit any vehicle proceeding in the whole length of Queen Street.

Appropriate traffic signs will be displayed to indicate when the measures are in force.

Exemptions are included for police, fire and ambulance services and for the works and for access to premises which are only accessible from the closed section of road.

The alternative route for traffic affected by the closure is via Martins Lane, High Street and vice versa

This Order will remain in force for a maximum period of 18 months or until the works have been completed whichever is the sooner.

Traffic Regulations Team (T9349 / RAG) for the Director for Infrastructure Delivery, County Hall, Oxford OX1 1ND. 0345 310 1111.

Update on garden waste

Dear Garden Waste Customer

Firstly, please accept our sincere apologies for the disruption to your garden waste service this summer.

We are pleased to share the news that we have agreed a temporary arrangement with Biffa that will enable us to begin collecting garden waste again from 27 September.

The well documented national shortage of HGV drivers is still an issue for Biffa, as well as for other council waste collections and many supermarkets, but the temporary arrangement they can provide requires fewer drivers, which means the service can resume sooner.

The temporary arrangement is that fortnightly collections will change to take place every four weeks, but you will be able to leave twice as much garden waste out as normal.

We appreciate this is still not the service you expect from us so we will be extending your subscription this year by three months to make up for the collections that you have missed while the service has been suspended. We will delay the collection of your next Direct Debit payment by three months – if we have recently informed you that your payment is due to be taken imminently but the payment has not yet come out of your account, the payment will be cancelled, and you will be notified of the revised collection date in due course once your subscription has been amended. If somebody else pays for your garden waste collections, please let them know of this change. If you choose not to continue with the garden waste service when your subscription expires, we’ll continue to empty your brown bin for three months after your subscription was originally due to end.

While we will be reviewing the situation closely on an ongoing basis, we have set an agreed review date with Biffa at the end of October to see if the normal service can resume and we will let you know the outcome of that review.

Your collection day remains the same as before

If your bins are usually emptied on a Monday, for example, your brown bin will still be emptied on a Monday under a new temporary garden waste timetable with your bins emptied once every four weeks, instead of every two weeks.

You can see the temporary timetable, which shows when your four-weekly collection will take place on our dedicated webpage here

Remember, when you put your garden waste bin out while this temporary timetable is in place, you can leave an extra bin’s worth of garden waste out next to your brown bin. The extra garden waste can be put out in cardboard boxes, old compost bags or bin bags (not the very large trade waste bags please).

We will still collect your food waste weekly, and your recycling and rubbish every two weeks as normal.

We want to thank you for your patience and understanding and apologise once again that the service has fallen short of the standards you have come to expect. We hope you feel that the temporary arrangement is a good way of getting the garden waste service up and running sooner rather than later, while Biffa continues to look for ways to address its driver shortage.

Communications

South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils

01235 422400