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Principles met

  • Community leadership and a new role for councillors

    We will explore ways for councils to act as a platform for helping the community to contribute to local outcomes, and to re-think the role of councillors as community connectors, brokers and leaders.

  • Innovation

    We will embrace innovation in how we work with local communities to drive positive change.

  • New models of meeting priority needs

    In exploring new ways of meeting the priority needs of our communities we will encourage models, such as co-operatives and mutuals, which give greater influence and voice to staff and users. in designing and commissioning public services and in determining the use of public resources.

Birmingham City Council is the biggest council in Europe, serving 1.2m people living in more than 400,000 homes. Cleaner, greener streets matter to our residents, so we knew we had to tackle the issue with a new and innovative approach that’s now delivering results– led by the introduction of Mobile Household Recycling Centres (MHRCs).

The service was designed to address multiple challenges around waste disposal, principally domestic fly-tipping or dumping, and inaccessibility to the city’s four household recycling centres for many citizens.  It focuses on collecting bulky household waste, while also collecting items suitable for community re-use, through a service of just four teams of two vehicles operating every weekday.

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