Decision details

In the waste services budget for 2012-13 the service proposes to make savings of £300,000.  This will help the Council to spend more on priority services, such as those for vulnerable adults and children, and roads.  The service is proposing to do this by following the recent major improvements to kerbside recycling services with some reduction in the number of mini recycling sites, primarily those used by schools and not accessible to the general public, and the removal of summer evening opening hours at Wiltshire’s Household Recycling Centres (HRCs).  Proposals are made for alternative services to local authority schools.

This report summarises the results of public consultation on the proposals held from

29 February to 28 May 2012 and the technical analysis of mini recycling sites and explains how these have been used to identify the proposals. 

To achieve planned and budgeted for savings to waste expenditure, by reducing potential duplication following the expansion of kerbside recycling services, whilst retaining an effective public back-up service at mini recycling sites and daily access to household recycling centres.

The proposed budget savings are largely specific.  In the case of closure of part of the mini recycling sites network, the main alternative would be to close some school sites and some public sites.  This would retain more low performing sites and leave an even smaller proportion of schools receiving a service not available to others.  Therefore, this option has not been recommended.

Public consultation (web-site and postal questionnaire) 29 February to 28 May 2012.  Consultation methods, publicity and responses are set out in the attached report.