IT SEEMS Brighton and Hove has no integrity.

We pay full council tax and in addition pay for  brown bin garden waste disposal. This year the price was raised 11 per cent.

The bin is meant to be emptied every two weeks. So far since paying the increased fee we have received two collections  in nine weeks.

When we ring and complain we are given never-ending false reasons for the lack of collection and false promises of a next-day collection which ends up at the next scheduled time. In effect we pay for a two-weekly collection which happens once a month. 

We are considering taking legal action for breach of contract as it is seriously affecting our control of the hedges and trees in our garden and our sister-in-law's with whom we share the bin.

The council is obviously trying to cut costs and so only large fines will tell them they are public servants not rulers.

I would be interested in any one else taking similar steps as joint action is often more effective and will lead to a larger fine.

Regulations and laws seem to be being broken across the city by those in control. Such things as not cutting trees while birds are nesting in them, so-called temporary cycle lanes which ignore any protests and become permanent at a whim, removal of inconvenient greenery without planning permission, always called mistakes and who has checked the "Ash Dieback" excuse for the damage to trees in woodland off Coldean Lane and in Coldean Park?

If sub contractors are to blame, why no prosecutions? Does the council write contracts without default clauses? If not, why not?

R P Lambeth

Martin Road 

Hove