One rule for the higher ups...

12:02pm Thursday 14th February 2008

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I HAVE to add another complaint against Herefordshire Council. My wife has, for the last five years, been writing and telephoning about recycling in our area.

At the moment, we drive eight miles to Hay-on-Wye to recycle as much as we can, and we also restrict our rubbish to one bag for every two weeks.

Then, lo and behold, we noticed purple and white transparent polythene bags with recyclable material within, outside houses at the bottom of our hill in Bredwardine.

It appears that the council had started recycling in our village - but only for those on flat ground. We were never informed that it was to be so by the council and why only the bottom-of-the-hill homes. This is blatant discrimination towards homes on the hill - yet we still pay the same rates of council tax (sometimes much more) as the homes in the lower part of the village.

Why is it that the council is unable to collect from homes further up the hill when massive oil tankers, cement lorries, building supply lorries and large removal vans can get up the hill to do their business?

There is a joke on our hill that all we get for our council taxes are 52 black plastic bags and a bucket of sand. We are certainly low priority for road repairs and we don't understand the total lack of communication regarding the council's limits of recycling.

Recently one reader commented on the £20,000 spent on the Herefordshire Matters magazine. For that amount we could have bought our own recycling lorry for the village and collected all the recycling - with change left over!

David and Sarah Morgan, Lane Cottage, Bredwardine.