THE Lichfield Household Waste and Recycling Centre is to close for eight days, bosses have confirmed.
The centre will be shut on 23rd September and will reopen at 9am on 2nd October.
The closure will allow for resurfacing work to take place.
Cllr Simon Tagg, cabinet member for environment, infrastructure and climate change at Staffordshire County Council, said:
“It’s important that we continue to invest in our recycling centres to make sure residents get an efficient and professional service.
“The resurfacing work planned, will make a real difference to people using the site. To make sure the work can be done safely, we do need to close the centre for a few days.
“I’d like to thank people in advance for their patience during the closure and remind them that they can use the other nearby centres during that time.”
The improvements being made at the Lichfield site are part of a wider £4.7million five-year investment in recycling centres across the county.
For more details on the closure and alternative locations visit the Staffordshire County Council website.
Instead of resurfacing this recycling centre, the council should be looking for a larger, better located site. The is the same sized, ill-located recycling centre that was being used forty years ago. In the meantime, large-scale developments have put more and more pressure on the site so that queuing and overfull skips are frequent occurences. Exiting the recycling centre onto Trent Valley Road, very close to the roundabout, means waiting for the occasional kid-hearted motorist to let you into the traffic flow but usually you still have to avoid traffic accelerating from the roundabout towards town.
Surely a better more customer friendly way would be to work on resurfacing when closed to public which is 3? days per week. That way no problem to users. Or am I missing something?
Once this work is done, maybe the my can look at an alternative site. The smell coming into the car when driving past is awful. The poor people living nearby must be sick with it. Lichfield is too big to have such a small over used facility. Surely there must be space for it somewhere else. What about the land at the far end of Burton Old Road by Trent Valley station car park? It’s big, flat, out of the way and by land that is surrounded by industry, road and train tracks. The existing site could then be used for housing. They should move that eye sore Staffs CC depot too.