{"id":327615,"date":"2025-12-21T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327615\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:00:18","slug":"fight-to-save-wiltshire-councils-valued-recycling-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327615\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight to save Wiltshire Council&#8217;s &#8216;valued&#8217; recycling centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leaders at Wiltshire Council&#8217;s Conservative group have said they could challenge the decision at the High Court as they claim the decision was made in private.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council&#8217;s Reform group has also expressed concern about a lack of consultation, with the group&#8217;s leader, Ed Rimmer, calling the council &#8220;out of touch&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Thorn said that the council is &#8220;committed to supporting residents through these changes and will ask for feedback early in the new year&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will provide clear information including our plans on a new site in the north of the county,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Hills Group spokesperson said over the last 11 years costs have increased significantly more than the Consumer Price Index (CPI).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Recent submissions considered these additional costs along with the cost of essential reinvestment in the sites which would allow us to continue to provide an essential service to the residents of Calne and Purton maintaining the high standards our staff have achieved consistently,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders at Wiltshire Council&#8217;s Conservative group have said they could challenge the decision at the High Court as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}