DISTRIBUTED FREE TO OVER 100,000 HOMES AND BUSINESSES IN TAMESIDE I ISSUE 73 I AUTUMN 2015 THE TAMESIDE Proud #ProudTameside IN THIS ISSUE: P2 We’ve moved P4 Bin Swap P8 Budget consultation Total savings next five years £90 million FOLLOW US ON AND What have you enjoyed in Tameside? Post your favourite We’ve moved! pictures via Instagram, Welcome Facebook or Twitter. Use ASHTON Customer Services have moved to Clarence #ProudTameside or Arcade on Stamford Street following the closure of the to the Autumn edition email communications@ Council Offices on Wellington Road. tameside.gov.uk Bus of the Tameside Citizen. BUSES AND CYCLES ONLY THIS edition is packed with There are articles updating you on Station You can visit the information on what Tameside is progress with Bin Swap, Vision Tameside Customer Services in doing for its residents despite the and the programme of school building Contents Clarence Arcade for help and continued budget cuts. works. advice on all Council services including specialist advice Council Wellington Road I reported in the last edition how £104 We’ve also written about our continued on Housing Benefit and million had already been cut from drive to grow the local economy, help 04 Bin Swap Council Tax issues. Arcades Offices the council’s budget since 2010 and people back into work and support we are anticipating cuts of at least an entrepreneurs to set up new businesses 06 Vision Tameside Shopping additional £90 million over the next five through our Tameside Job Pledges and OLD Customer years. the Made in Tameside scheme. Centre Services 08 Budget Consultation Each year the Council undertakes a In this edition we have also published budget consultation to get the views an easy-to-understand breakdown of 10 Know your Councillor of local residents and businesses on what devolution will mean for Tameside how we address the funding challenge and its residents. Greater Manchester and balance the budget. We will have will be given control of £9 billion of 12 What My Councillor Does Ladysmith Open to take some very difficult decisions funding enabling decisions which affect Market Market about which services we can continue our residents to be made more locally. 13 Devolution Warrington Street to deliver and I would ask residents to Shopping Hall work with us to save money and protect I hope you find this useful and Centre vital services. informative and would welcome your 14 New Schools for Tameside eet feedback. tr S I encourage everyone to take part in the t 15 Money Matters e k budget consultation which runs until 22 To keep up to date, follow my blog Street ar December so you can have your say on www.tameside.gov.uk/blog/leader Old M There are also five the budget plans for next year. You can 16 Big Tidy Up Yorkshire Lloyds NatWest Building find out more on page 8. Bank Bank ‘In Touch’ Tameside Centres Society based in the borough libraries. 17 Made in Tameside Delamere Street Delamere Staff can provide information on many As the council leader I will not shy away from making difficult decisions for the Council services. 18 Prestigious Buildings Hyde: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday benefit of our residents and businesses just as I will never walk away from the MarketAve eet Denton: Monday and Thursday Wellington Street Droylsden: Monday pm and Friday pm services that are important to local 20 News In Brief Str people. Dukinfield: Thursday am e g Wood Street r Stalybridge: Tuesday and Wednesday 21 New GMPF Building o That’s why in this edition you will see articles which highlight our continued Ge Stamford Street commitment to making Tameside a Cllr Kieran Quinn 22 What’s On NEW Temporary great place for all of its residents. Tameside Council Executive Leader Customer Services Clarence Arcade Contact Customer Services Follow us on www.tameside.gov.uk/customerservices Tameside_Council Alternatively, email [email protected] 2 Citizen - Autumn 2015 Citizen - Autumn 2015 3 or call 0161 342 8355. What have you enjoyed in Tameside? Post your favourite We’ve moved! pictures via Instagram, Welcome Facebook or Twitter. Use ASHTON Customer Services have moved to Clarence #ProudTameside or Arcade on Stamford Street following the closure of the to the Autumn edition email communications@ Council Offices on Wellington Road. tameside.gov.uk Bus of the Tameside Citizen. BUSES AND CYCLES ONLY THIS edition is packed with There are articles updating you on Station You can visit the information on what Tameside is progress with Bin Swap, Vision Tameside Customer Services in doing for its residents despite the and the programme of school building Contents Clarence Arcade for help and continued budget cuts. works. advice on all Council services including specialist advice Council Wellington Road I reported in the last edition how £104 We’ve also written about our continued on Housing Benefit and million had already been cut from drive to grow the local economy, help 04 Bin Swap Council Tax issues. Arcades Offices the council’s budget since 2010 and people back into work and support we are anticipating cuts of at least an entrepreneurs to set up new businesses 06 Vision Tameside Shopping additional £90 million over the next five through our Tameside Job Pledges and OLD Customer years. the Made in Tameside scheme. Centre Services 08 Budget Consultation Each year the Council undertakes a In this edition we have also published budget consultation to get the views an easy-to-understand breakdown of 10 Know your Councillor of local residents and businesses on what devolution will mean for Tameside how we address the funding challenge and its residents. Greater Manchester and balance the budget. We will have will be given control of £9 billion of 12 What My Councillor Does Ladysmith Open to take some very difficult decisions funding enabling decisions which affect Market Market about which services we can continue our residents to be made more locally. 13 Devolution Warrington Street to deliver and I would ask residents to Shopping Hall work with us to save money and protect I hope you find this useful and Centre vital services. informative and would welcome your 14 New Schools for Tameside eet feedback. tr S I encourage everyone to take part in the t 15 Money Matters e k budget consultation which runs until 22 To keep up to date, follow my blog Street ar December so you can have your say on www.tameside.gov.uk/blog/leader Old M There are also five the budget plans for next year. You can 16 Big Tidy Up Yorkshire Lloyds NatWest Building find out more on page 8. Bank Bank ‘In Touch’ Tameside Centres Society based in the borough libraries. 17 Made in Tameside Delamere Street Delamere Staff can provide information on many As the council leader I will not shy away from making difficult decisions for the Council services. 18 Prestigious Buildings Hyde: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday benefit of our residents and businesses just as I will never walk away from the MarketAve eet Denton: Monday and Thursday Wellington Street Droylsden: Monday pm and Friday pm services that are important to local 20 News In Brief Str people. Dukinfield: Thursday am e g Wood Street r Stalybridge: Tuesday and Wednesday 21 New GMPF Building o That’s why in this edition you will see articles which highlight our continued Ge Stamford Street commitment to making Tameside a Cllr Kieran Quinn 22 What’s On NEW Temporary great place for all of its residents. Tameside Council Executive Leader Customer Services Clarence Arcade Contact Customer Services Follow us on www.tameside.gov.uk/customerservices Tameside_Council Alternatively, email [email protected] 2 Citizen - Autumn 2015 Citizen - Autumn 2015 3 or call 0161 342 8355. Now Bin Swap has started BIN SWAP please put the following items in the relevant bin... Non recyclable THE successful Bin Swap scheme has been rolled out across the borough Plastic bags Plastic food trays Dog waste and waste Don’t to save £3 million a year and safeguard vital frontline services. & yoghurt pots nappies It’s part of our routine now and it feels good to forget this My initial feeling was “ know we’re doing everything we can to recycle “ waste of panic – I wondered more and send less waste to landfill. how we were ever going goes to It’s a simple change If a family of six with four children including a to have room for all of five-month-old in nappies can adapt easily to the landfill. our waste. We have three • What goes in the green and black bins has now swapped - glass, plastic “scheme then I would expect it can work for most children and a dog and in bottles, cans and tins now go in the black bin which has more capacity for “addition to that my husband people. recycling. Only waste that cannot be recycled goes into the smaller green Every tonne to landfill costs £300 of tax payers money. and I run our two businesses “ bin and onto landfill. Thorp family, Stalybridge “ from home so we probably produce more waste than the Recycling is the right thing to do. I work in the average family. It makes sense construction industry and am aware of the Aerosol cans Plastic bottles Glass bottles Aluminium foil Cans and tins and jars But to be honest since we “ huge cost of landfill charges – it doesn’t make sense “ • All councils across the country are looking at ways to reduce landfill waste, to be putting waste into expensive landfill when it started on the scheme it protect the environment and save money for vital services – with some can recycled.