Residents of a retirement complex have been forced to fork out £1,200 for new bins after being told their old ones – which had been in use for 27 years – were too big. Pensioners at Barden Court in Maidstone say they had never had a problem with their rubbish being taken away. But when Suez took over waste collection in the borough at the end of March, their communal bins were not emptied and started overflowing. The contractor replaced previous provider, Biffa, following a new multi-million-pound deal with Maidstone, Swale and Ashford. Barden Court development manager Angela Dalton says rubbi…
