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Hillingdon’s £70 green waste consultation is still open

By on 21st March 2025 in Environment

London Borough of Hillingdon is running a public consultation on their proposal for a £70 annual charge for collecting green waste (garden recycling).  It is open until the end of March.  Please complete it now: doing so is anonymous, you do not need to log in, and you will not be asked for your personal details.

 

Hillingdon’s case for charging for green waste is…

The proposed change would see the introduction of a £70 charge for 2025/26 for the collection of a household’s garden waste. The charge would support the running costs of the service and ensure it’s paid for by those using it – rather than the cost being shared by all taxpayers, including those without gardens.

Our garden waste collection service would continue to offer residents:

  • better value for money than neighbouring boroughs through a cheaper rate per collection
  • weekly collections in spring, summer and autumn
  • greater capacity of collected garden waste than other boroughs.

Residents without a subscription would still be able to take their garden waste to our civic amenity sites for free. 

Please complete the consultation questionnaire

Whether you agree with it or not, we encourage you to complete the consultation questionnaire.

Yes, the questions appear to be biased, the conclusion appears already made, objections can barely be raised, and the charge is all but inevitable given that the £2.5m is already in the council’s budget, but this is the consultation that we have and to be heard, we must complete it.

The consultation is long (29 questions) but it is also anonymous, so if you wish to tell the council that you’d flytip or burn your garden waste instead of paying for the collection service, you can do so – without them knocking on your door.

About e-Petition circulating on social media

There is an ePetition that a resident has created on the Hillingdon platform, and it has already reached the 100 threshold to be discussed at a future Cabinet meeting (possibly as soon as 10th April) but we stress that the only full and proper way to have your voice heard is to complete the consultation survey.  It is from the consultation that Hillingdon will quote figures and formalise their decision.

You can find the ePetition here on the Hillingdon website – you’ll need to sign in to complete it.

Please complete the consultation questionnaire too.  If you only participate in one of the two, prioritise the consultation.  By all means do both, but the consultation is the most important.

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