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Recycling sites across Cheshire East are under threat as the council looks to make savings ahead of the contract’s renewal, writes Ethan Davies.

CEC Cabinet members voted to launch a consultation on plans to close some of the borough’s eight recycling centres.

A pre-meeting report says the current recycling contract, which expires in 2023, “cannot simply be replicated and that national and international changes in the waste sector need to be considered”.

It went on to propose four “scenarios” for closure.

Congleton and Poynton see their sites close in every scenario, with Middlewich’s only surviving in scenario number four.

In all scenarios, the main Crewe recycling centre currently on Pyms Lane would remain open, as would main sites in Macclesfield and Knutsford.

At the meeting, Middlewich Cllr Carol Bulman said: “We have very bad traffic problems in Middlewich and getting in and out is not easy.

“We also have the Ansa site — I think it would be kind to allow the Middleiwch tip [to remain] to balance the tip. Please be kind to us.”

Cllr Laura Crane, portfolio holder for highways and waste, replied saying that no final decisions had been taken and the consultation would allow councillors and residents to air their views on any proposed closures.

Despite the planned closures of some facilities, the recommendation report says that under scenarios three and four, 96% of residents will remain less than a 20-minute drive from a recycling centre.

The current figure is 98%, with scenarios one and two — which are estimated to obtain the biggest savings — seeing 88 and 93% of residents staying within 20 minutes of the sites respectively.

The consultation on the plans will be launched in 2021-22.

6 Comments

  1. Typical labour run council. Core services going to the dogs while money gets spent on frustrating PC nonsense that 95% of people do not care about

  2. Thats brilliant.
    We want to combat fly tipping…. solution let’s close more recycling centers.

  3. Chris Moorhouse says:

    It about time senior leaders 0 Officers/Politicians at CEC visited the shop floor to see what is really going on and meet the public. The Council with it large budget could make savings on members allowances and there will be other heads of expenditure that could be slimmed down.

  4. Alistair Raisbeck says:

    Brilliant touch of timing. More folks to travel to Pyms Lane just when a Bentley close all the accesses at one end!!

  5. I bet if any of the contracts had an MP or government consultant (Cummings, Hancock, and Mine) associated with the business they would stay open. Just have to look at some of the contracts awarded for PPE etc most are non existent companies, with no assets and recently formed, yet given huge sums of money to provide Mickey mouse services.

  6. Again they cut core services whilst continuing to find money for other things

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