{"id":484636,"date":"2026-03-19T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/484636\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:51:13","slug":"why-cant-hampshire-reinstate-phone-waste-centre-bookings-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/484636\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t Hampshire reinstate phone waste centre bookings? &#8211; Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  If only the County Council would accept that their &#8216;on-line only&#8217; booking system for the recycling\/disposal centres is a main cause of fly tipping !\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Many more people than one might imagine are not on-line.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The almost insulting retort to those not on-line being to go to your local library, and they will help you book, overlooks the fact that getting to a library itself may be too much of a challenge for some.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Why, oh why cannot phone bookings be re-instated ?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Indeed, why are bookings needed at all ?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  We used to be able to just turn up, and there never was a problem. It is hardly rocket science to see the link to increased fly tipping. I myself can book on-line, but many more than one may imagine cannot.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  M. M. Napier,\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Hodder Close,\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Chandler&#8217;s Ford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If only the County Council would accept that their &#8216;on-line only&#8217; booking system for the recycling\/disposal centres is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-484636","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\/484636","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=484636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}