{"id":399286,"date":"2026-01-08T07:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399286\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:44:07","slug":"wiltshire-council-to-defend-recycling-centre-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/399286\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiltshire council to defend recycling centre closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council leader is facing pressure from opposition councillors over a decision to close a recycling centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ian Thorn, who leads Wiltshire Council, will have to defend a motion opposing the closure of Lower Compton Recycling Centre in Calne, where he sits as mayor, tabled by Labour and Conservative councillors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decision taken before Christmas to close two household recycling centres, at Lower Compton and at Purton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4ge7kw9l25o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resulted in a petition with thousands of signatures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Liberal Democrat council leader previously said the price proposed for the contract renewal &#8220;was substantially higher than the current arrangement&#8221; and &#8220;would have placed considerable financial pressure on the council&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A council leader is facing pressure from opposition councillors over a decision to close a recycling centre. Ian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-399286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}