{"id":429961,"date":"2026-02-17T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429961\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:30:10","slug":"wiltshire-council-had-to-say-no-to-recycling-centre-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429961\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiltshire Council &#8216;had to say no&#8217; to recycling centre contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wiltshire resident Chris Caswill said he was a Lib Dem member, the same political party as the council&#8217;s administration, and was &#8220;astonished&#8221; by the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have found no adequate justification for it in all the discussions and paperwork I&#8217;ve seen,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Peter Johnson, who lives in Calne, said he was not impressed with the handling of the closures by the council, saying it rode &#8220;roughshod over the views of local people who use this [Lower Compton] recycling centre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He called the closure delay &#8220;just a stay of execution&#8221; and has concerns about the travel times to other HRCs and flytipping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plan for the single council-owned recycling centre in the Royal Wootton Bassett area is not impressing everyone in Calne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wiltshire resident Chris Caswill said he was a Lib Dem member, the same political party as the council&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-429961","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\/429961","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=429961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}