Decision details

Cessation of Household Waste Recylcing Centre Summer Thursday Late Night Opening

Decision Maker: Delegated Decisions by Deputy Leader of the Council with Responsibility for Climate Change, Environment & Future Generations

Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

There has been a long-standing arrangement that during the summer months (April – September) sites will remain open to 8pm on a Thursday.  In the context of wider service and usage these extended hours are not well used; repeated communications through a variety of channels have promoted the service, but it remains underutilised.  As part of the corporate approach to deliver authority wide savings it is proposed that late night opening is stopped in 2024 and a saving of £27k is used to meet pressures elsewhere in the service

Decisions:

Councillor Pete Sudbury welcomed officers to the meeting and thanked them for their work in producing the report. Councillor Sudbury highlighted the practicalities for the cessation of household waste recycling centres being open late on Thursday’s during the summer. Councillor Sudbury agreed to the recommendation in the report.

 

RESOLVED to:

 

a)    Approve the cessation of late night summer opening at Household Waste Recycling Centres on Thursdays from 1 April 2024.

Report author: Steve Burdis

Publication date: 10/04/2024

Date of decision: 22/02/2024

Decided at meeting: 22/02/2024 - Delegated Decisions by Deputy Leader of the Council with Responsibility for Climate Change, Environment & Future Generations

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