COUNCIL bosses are being urged to set up a phone system that would allow residents who don’t have internet access to request bulk uplifts.

At a full council meeting in December last year, Glasgow City Council announced services of this nature would resume and could be requested through an online booking system.

The leader of Glasgow’s Conservative group, councillor Thomas Kerr, criticised the move which would mean people who don’t have online access would miss out.

At the time, Mr Kerr requested a phone system for those in this situation, which was agreed by members and was supposed to be installed at the beginning

of 2021.

He has now raised concerns that there is still no phoneline – which he believes is leading to an increase in fly-tipping.

Speaking ahead of this week’s budget meeting, councillor Kerr said: “When the announcement of bulk uplift services resuming was made in December, I criticised the council’s move to an online only booking system that risked leaving behind the elderly and vulnerable who face digital exclusion.

“We face a fly-tipping crisis in Glasgow and it is completely unacceptable that the SNP administration is putting further barriers in the way of people responsibly disposing of their waste.

“The council issued assurances that a telephone service for bulk uplift requests would be made available in the early part of this year. Well, it’s almost the middle of March and Glaswegians are still waiting.

“This week, Glasgow Conservative councillors will bring forward a cleansing budget to address the crisis the city is facing which removes the £30 bulk uplift charge, reinstates fortnightly bin collections and invests in ‘Clean Glasgow’

apprentices.

“I will further reissue my demand that Glasgow residents are able to book bulk uplifts by phone as they have done successfully for decades until this SNP council came to power.”

Glasgow City Council has been asked for comment.