A senior councillor has denied Labour has broken its manifesto promises to scrap weekly bin collections.

Councillor Chris Bond, cabinet member for environment, stated that no decision has been made on waste collections as the Council consults with thousands of residents on “reassessing” waste collection.

Nick de Bois, Enfield North MP, lambasted the council for wasting taxpayers' money on opinion polling.

He said: "Labour-run Enfield Council is overseeing a shocking waste of taxpayers' money with this opinion polling. Their manifesto contained a clear commitment to keep weekly collections and yet here they are using public money to test the waters on breaking that promise.

"Labour should come clean on their plans to end weekly collections. This kind of behaviour is just the type of thing that damages people's faith in politics and frankly smacks of arrogance. Enfield deserves better."

However, Cllr Bond believes that the council was right to spend money on consulting with residents.

He said: “In our manifesto we said that we would be having one waste collection a week. We did not specify which type of waste we would be collecting, whether that is rubbish or recycling.

“We are looking to find out what residents would be comfortable with regarding their waste collection and no decision has been made, I think that is important to be stressed.”

The councillor also told the Enfield Independent that normal waste costs the council £160 to collect whereas the same volume of recyclables costs the council £6.

He added: “As most councils are doing across London, we are reassessing how we collect waste and with cut backs we are looking to see where we can save.”