Burntwood’s tip is to close for six weeks to allow refurbishment to take place.
The household waste recycling centre will shut from 17th September until late October as part of the £50,000 project.
Work will include resurfacing and repainting of markings, as well as other improvements.
Cllr Simon Tagg, Staffordshire County Council’s cabinet member for environment, infrastructure and climate change, said:
“When we brought the service back in-house in April, we promised we would invest in the future of our recycling sites to make the service better for residents and to help reduce the county’s carbon footprint to net zero by 2050.
“Burntwood Household Waste Recycling Centre is the first of our 14 sites to benefit from this investment and I am looking forward to seeing the finished result.”
Cllr Simon Tagg, Staffordshire County Council
Throughout the temporary closure, people are advised to use alternative sites at Lichfield and Cannock.
For more information visit www.staffordshire.gov.uk/recyclingcentres
Rubbish!
Flytipping in 5, 4, 3…
6 week refurbishments ??- it’s a tip! A ‘waste’ of money that will lead to more fly tipped waste costing the taxpayer more? Absolutely fabulous idea 💡 👏
Sounds a hell of a lot of money in these difficult times but hopefully worth it if it does help reducing our carbon footprint for a better environment for our world.
Fly-tipping around Burntwood? If that is a problem you should talk to the County councillor for Burntwood North. I’m sure he could help.
It takes six weeks to rearrange a few skips and have a good sweep up?
I suggest more police around the rural areas, outside farms, down our lovely lanes etc. Because if nothing is put in place locally, people will not pay the extra fuel bill to take it to the others. QED.
How about buying the land adjacent to the metal recycling place, spend the money on that land for new recycling centre and staff car park which will take most of the cars off Ring road as its chaos down ther
It’s an a
Empty concrete yard how on earth can u spend that much refurbing it
It’s just got some big rubbish skips and ramps in it????
30 litres of rubber line paint = £975.00. Sounds like the other 49 large is for the new staff portakabin with shower and cooking facilities, maybe an American style fridge for the water and heating for when it gets cold, then there’s the new hi-viz clothing with a new Staffs logo on it ( that went out to consultation and a selection committee to pick the winner) there’s £5000 for a start, plus the ergonomically designed sweeping brushes and shovels to try and cut down on days lost thru staff getting hand/ wrist/ back injuries on the odd occasion when they have a brush in their hands instead of a mug of tea ……. You all think I’m joking !!
When it re-opens, I hope they sort the traffic management out. EVERY time I go there, cars are in the central lane, whereas the 2 lanes clearly marked UNLOADING are empty. Does my head in – and causes long queues out onto the main road sometimes.
No statement to say that the Lichfield “Recycling Centre” will open on Mondays and Tuesdays, when it is customarily closed, in order to compensate for Burntwood’s extended closure. Thinking outside the box is a rarity, these days.
Get one of the staff there to sort the parking out each outside lanes are make unloading but people park in the middle land . Some local guy told me to move my vehicle as I was blocking the traffic 😂 I was parked in the unloading bay with everyone else park in the middle lane . He got told in unkind words to done one and can he read 👌👌
Net Zero? Another fictitious target to justify ripping of the general public . Bit like introducing cardboard and paper recycling where we are now putting more items in the black bin. So fir six weeks we have got to travel to Cannock to recycle or dispose. Nice to think that our 2 grand plus council tax is being put to good use.
Think they’ve put the wrong dates for closure on the website OR Google is displaying the wrong message.
What a bunch of moaners you all are.