Bin crews in Thorpe St Andrew will be making their rounds half an hour earlier than normal this week as warm weather sweeps across the district. Broadland and South Norfolk Council has confirmed that collections will start at 6am instead of the usual 6:30am.
The change came into effect on Tuesday 23 June and will apply throughout the rest of the week on residents’ scheduled collection days. A council statement urged households to put their bins out earlier to match, noting simply that the adjustment is “due to the warm weather this week.”
The merged council, formed in 2024, has previously shifted collection times during extreme weather, including over Easter bank holidays when residents were told to have bins ready by 6:30am on revised dates. Next month the authority will begin rolling out a new weekly food waste collection service in South Norfolk, with every household due to be included by the end of September.
Similar earlier starts are in place elsewhere in the county, with North Norfolk District Council and the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk also moving crews forward as temperatures are forecast to reach 31 degrees Celsius.
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