Bristol’s Conservative opposition has criticized council-owned Bristol Waste for delays in producing its business plan and has questioned the handling of interim managing director Jason Eldridge’s departure.
Eldridge left after six months having been appointed after managing director Tony Lawless and finance director Adam Henshaw both resigned on 18 July last year, as the BBC reported.
Tory councillor Geoff Gollop, who chairs the council’s resources scrutiny commission, questioned why Eldridge had gone shortly before publication of Bristol Waste’s business plan was due and complained that councillors were not told of his departure on health grounds last month but were left to discover this from a Companies House filing.
The business plan has been delayed and is now expected at a meeting on 27 February.
A Bristol Waste statement to MRW did not comment on the delay to the business plan, but said: “The interim managing director, Jason Eldridge, stepped down in January due to ill health. We thank Jason for the contribution he made to Bristol Waste, both as operations director and interim MD, and wish him well.”