OPPOSITION councillors are calling on waste chiefs to expand York's recycling service to include terraced homes.

Labour councillor Ruth Potter is also appealing for families with young children to be given larger wheelie bins to deal with their extra rubbish.

The call to the ruling Lib Dem group has been included in a motion to be debated at a full meeting of City of York Council on Thursday.

Coun Potter, pictured, said: "This situation is fundamentally unfair and needs addressing. People in terraced areas should be entitled to receive the same level of service as everybody else in the city.

"We already know people in terraced areas receive a massively inferior street cleaning service to those in other areas, and this is yet more evidence that the Lib Dems are neglecting the main urban areas of York, most of which they don't represent.

"The terraced streets pay their council tax like everybody else and deserve a more equal service."

Most terraced streets in the city do not receive a doorstep recycling service from the council and some areas rely on the Friends Of St Nicholas Fields community group.

A number of wards, such as Micklegate, have had to use money from ward committee budgets to pay for the group to bring recycling to their area.

Coun Potter said the council needed to reduce the amount of waste generated by residents.

She said: "Landfill tax is costing the council hundreds of thousands of pounds a year already and this will only get worse.

"Without recycling collections, it is extremely difficult to get everything into the normal size grey bin and allowances need to be made."

But Coun Andrew Waller, executive member for neighbourhood services, said the council was hampered by landfill tax and a lack of Government cash.

"It is holding us back," he said. "I am desperate to include every property we can in the recycling service.

"It is not that we are unwilling. We are doing the best we can with the resources that we have got.

"By introducing alternate weekly collections we have freed up a lot of money in the service to bring more people into recycling."