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GLM 5.3 FlashX Legal: What Hollinbrook residents think of three-weekly bin collections
The decision: whether to move general waste collection to every three weeks across the whole district, to do so with extra support for households that need it (a larger bin, or extra collections of nappies and hygiene waste), to pilot it in some areas first, or to drop the proposal. The brief and the data →
- Verdict
- ✗ Not sound
- Research score
- 30 of 100
- Analysis rating
- 997
- Head to head, this task
- won 0 of 5
Why it is not sound
The analysis
- Produced no usable analysis
Scorecard
The analysis
This model produced no usable analysis for this task.
The survey it planned
4 screening questions and 10 questions, as the model wrote them.
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S1
How old are you?
One answer- Under 18
- 18-24
- 25-34
- 35-44
- 45-54
- 55-64
- 65-74
- 75 or over
Continues if 18-24; 25-34; 35-44; 45-54; 55-64; 65-74; 75 or over
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S2
Do you live in the Hollinbrook District Council area?
One answer- Yes
- No
Continues if Yes
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S3
Have you already completed this survey, or has anyone else in your household already completed it?
One answer- Yes
- No
Continues if No
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S4
What is your home postcode? We will use this only to confirm you live in the district and to report results by ward. It will not be used to identify you.
Open textContinues if Any valid postcode inside the Hollinbrook District Council area
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Q1
The council is considering collecting general waste (the black bin) every three weeks instead of every two. How much had you heard about this before today?
One answer- A lot
- A little
- Nothing at all
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Q2
Please read this short summary before answering. Hollinbrook District Council is considering collecting general waste (the black bin) every three weeks instead of every two. Food waste would still be collected every week, and recycling every two weeks. The council estimates this would save about £600,000 a year. Councils that have made this change often recycle more; Hollinbrook currently recycles 43% of household waste. Some people worry that black bins will overflow or smell, and that households with babies, or people who use continence or hygiene products, will find three weeks too long. The council could offer extra support to households that need it, such as a larger black bin, or extra collections of nappy and hygiene waste. No decision has been made yet. To what extent do you support or oppose moving general waste collection to every three weeks across the whole district?
One answer- Strongly support
- Tend to support
- Neither support nor oppose
- Tend to oppose
- Strongly oppose
- Don't know
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Q3
If general waste was collected every three weeks instead of every two, how do you think it would affect your household?
One answer- Very negatively
- Fairly negatively
- Not much effect either way
- Fairly positively
- Very positively
- Don't know
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Q4
Does anyone in your household regularly use or need to dispose of any of the following? Select all that apply.
Any that apply- Disposable nappies
- Reusable (washable) nappies
- Continence products (for example pads, pull-up pants, incontinence sheets)
- Other hygiene or healthcare waste (for example stoma or catheter supplies)
- None of the above
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Q5
If the council offered a larger black bin, or extra collections of nappy and hygiene waste, to households that need them, would that make you more or less supportive of moving to three-weekly general waste collection?
One answer- Much more supportive
- A little more supportive
- No difference
- A little less supportive
- Much less supportive
- Don't know
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Q6
Which one of these options would you most like the council to take? Select one only.
One answer- Keep general waste at every two weeks (drop the proposal)
- Move to every three weeks across the whole district, with extra support (a larger black bin, or extra nappy and hygiene collections) for households that need it
- Move to every three weeks across the whole district, with no extra support
- Pilot every-three-weekly collections in some areas first, then decide about the rest of the district
- Don't know
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Q7
In a typical week, how much of the waste your household throws away do you put in the recycling bin?
One answer- Almost all of it
- More than half
- About half
- Less than half
- Hardly any or none
- Don't know
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Q8
If general waste was collected every three weeks, would your household recycle more, less, or about the same as you do now?
One answer- A lot more
- A little more
- About the same
- A little less
- A lot less
- Don't know
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Q9
Which of these best describes the people who live in your household, including you?
One answer- Single adult, no children
- More than one adult, no children
- At least one adult and at least one child under 5 (with or without older children)
- At least one adult and children aged 5 to 17, but no children under 5
- Prefer not to say
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Q10
Do you own or rent your home?
One answer- Own it (including with a mortgage)
- Rent from the council or a housing association
- Rent privately
- Other (for example living with parents, or tied housing)
- Prefer not to say
Sample plan
Same questionnaire, two samples, reported separately and never merged into one headline percentage. RESIDENTS' PANEL (primary evidence for full council): random sample of addresses from the council tax list, stratified by ward. Invite one adult per household (the person whose birthday is next) by letter with a unique code and URL; reminders at 1 and 2 weeks. PRECISION WARNING: ward councillors want each of six wards to ±6pp at 95% confidence. That requires about 267 completes per ward (p=0.5), roughly 1,600 panel completes in total. The stated 420-complete target would give only about 70 per ward, about ±12pp at ward level, and about ±4.8pp for the district as a whole. We will invite enough addresses (typically 3,500-4,000 letters at a 40-45% response rate) to reach about 1,600 panel completes. If 420 is a hard budget cap, ward councillors must be told in writing before fieldwork that ward figures will be indicative only and do not meet ±6pp. QUOTAS: soft quotas on age band (S1) and tenure (Q10) within each ward to match the district profile; post-fieldwork raking to age × tenure by ward using census / mid-year estimates. OPEN CONSULTATION: identical questionnaire on the council website, promoted on social media and in the residents' magazine, open to any adult in the district with the link, one response per household (S3), postcode checked (S4). Self-selection will over-recruit people with strong views, so open-link results are supplementary only. FIELDWORK: 4 weeks. DATA QUALITY: remove completes under 90 seconds, duplicate postcodes with identical answers, and straight-liners; panel takes priority if someone completes both routes. QUESTION WORDING: balanced. Q2 gives the saving, the recycling evidence, and the main resident concerns before asking support. Results will be reported as they fall, with the questionnaire and methodology published alongside them, so the consultation is a fair basis for full council rather than a pre-agreed headline.