{"id":475834,"date":"2026-03-14T20:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475834\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T20:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:52:24","slug":"start-date-for-dorset-tip-booking-system-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475834\/","title":{"rendered":"Start date for Dorset tip booking system announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Introducing a small charge for non\u2011Dorset visitors will ensure the service remains fair for Dorset taxpayers and will tackle trade waste abuse, says the council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Each site currently sees around 380 visits a day, however the new system will offer 430 bookable slots daily per site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These can be reserved up to two weeks in advance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorset Council&#8217;s original plan to introduce booking at all 10 of its sites prompted a backlash and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdjxx0lexj0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> resulted in a revision of the plans to four locations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council&#8217;s six other six recycling centres remain open without booking for Dorset residents, except when disposing of DIY waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Jon Andrews, Dorset Council&#8217;s Cabinet Member for Place Services, said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve listened to residents and designed a system that&#8217;s simple and fair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It improves the experience for Dorset households, ensures taxpayers aren&#8217;t covering waste disposal costs for neighbouring areas, and helps prevent business use of household sites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bookings open on Monday 16 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing a small charge for non\u2011Dorset visitors will ensure the service remains fair for Dorset taxpayers and will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-475834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475834","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=475834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}