Lib Dems take action over green bin payment difficulties
Gloucester City Council had made it harder to use the pay by phone option – often favoured by elderly residents who do not want to pay online – for the annual £50 bin charge.
Trevor Howard is the Liberal Democrat candidate for Quedgeley division, which includes the Fieldcourt area, in May's county council elections.
He has lived in Gloucester for over 30 years and has raised his family in the city.
Trevor worked at Barnwood in the nuclear power industry originally for the CEGB, which later became Nuclear Electric and EDF before taking early retirement.
He has been a trustee of Brunswick Baptist Church for 30 years and through the church has helped many people struggling to access financial help and local community services.
He is also a presenter on local community radio station Severn FM and has a lifelong love of rock and blues
music.
If you have any issues you would like Trevor to take up on your behalf you can contact him on trevorhoward@newarkhouse.net
Gloucester City Council had made it harder to use the pay by phone option – often favoured by elderly residents who do not want to pay online – for the annual £50 bin charge.
A motion to the extraordinary general meeting of the city council on October 19 calls for Andy Lewis, Conservative cabinet member for culture and leisure, to make a written apology for the failure to agree a deal with Aspire.
Liberal Democrats councillors warning that any further financial shocks during 2023/24 would lead to services being cut to balance the books.
The city council announced the move as part of the phased reopening of leisure services in Gloucester after the collapse of the Aspire Trust last month.
Councillor Andrew Lewis, cabinet member for culture and leisure, said he hoped the Barton Pool and the Twyver Pool would be reopened by January 1.
The Liberal Democrats have tabled questions to the Conservative cabinet member for culture and leisure asking a series of questions about the future of the swimming pool.