Opening county tips including Spalding for an extra day has been branded too expensive amid worries over fly-tipping.<\/p>\n
The Reform-led Executive of Lincolnshire County Council is looking at how the Waste Recycling Centres, including the one on West Marsh Road, is run.<\/p>\n
At a recent meeting of the authority the issue of fly-tipping was raised and Coun Kevin Clarke questioned why opening them for more than the current five days wasn\u2019t an option.<\/p>\n
Coun Danny Brookes, executive member for waste, though wrongly told the meeting opening the tips for an extra day would cost an \u2018extra \u00a32m every day\u2019.<\/p>\n
When The Voice asked about the figures, a county council spokesman clarified it estimated the cost of opening all 11 recycling centres seven days would be \u00a32.5m a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s \u00a32m we haven\u2019t got in our budget,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I\u2019d have put it in there people could have expected it to happen. But unfortunately there\u2019s no chance, in the financial circumstances we are in, that\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith regards fly-tipping, they break the law whether the tips are open or not.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe it\u2019s anything to do with the days they\u2019re shut.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fly-tipping was also raised at last week\u2019s meeting of South Holland District Council where Coun Paul Barnes, the leader of the opposition South Holland Independents, said there were 366 reports last year and \u201914 just last week\u2019.<\/p>\n
Coun Anthony Casson, that authority\u2019s portfolio holder for the environment, said he \u2018understood fly-tipping is going up all over the country\u2019.<\/p>\n
But Coun Jim Astill said that the number of fly-tipping reports locally decreased last year. He also denied that the authority\u2019s move to wheelie bins and more recycling would lead to more fly-tipping, something described as \u2018the most unpopular decision the council has ever made\u2019 by Coun Chris Brewis, despite the fact a previous consultation by the council saw 49 per cent in favour of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur partner councils, particularly East Lindsey, didn\u2019t see an increase in fly-tipping when they went to bins a number of years ago and there\u2019s evidence others haven\u2019t either,\u201d Coun Astill said. \u201cIn 24\/25 fly tipping was down so hopefully we\u2019ll continue to see that trend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve an engagement team going out educating on how to use the bins and we\u2019ll continue our campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n
The meeting was also told there had been a delay in cleaning up the fly-tipping hot spot on South Drove just outside Spalding.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of the rain The South Holland and the Deepings Drainage Board have been manning the pumps 24\/7,\u201d Coun Casson said. \u201cThe road was also closed for quite a while.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been putting the bund up to stop people fly tipping and it\u2019s made a big improvement. Yes, there\u2019s still some down there but it will be cleared.\u201d<\/p>\n
The meeting also passed an increase in fines getting large increases.<\/p>\n
Littering: \u00a3250 (or \u00a3150 if paid within 10 days).
Graffiti: \u00a3300 (or \u00a3200 if paid within 10 days).
Fly-posting: \u00a3300 (or \u00a3200 if paid within 10 days).
Household waste duty of care breaches: \u00a3600 (or \u00a3400 if paid within 10 days).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening county tips including Spalding for an extra day has been branded too expensive amid worries over fly-tipping.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459102","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\/459102","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=459102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}