After all the self-promoting press releases from Herts County Council over many years, finally an admission of failure, over the queues and early closing of Household Waste sites (‘the tips’).
A report to last week’s Resources and Performance Cabinet panel states: ‘.
Malcolm Cowan, a Liberal Democrat county councillor who was at the meeting says: ‘This is exactly what we predicted when the plan to reduce the days of opening were being discussed. The chickens have come home to roost. By insisting on only opening 5 days per week, the same demand has been compressed, so that many centres are having problems. There are also reports of increased fly-tipping as people are turned away.
‘I myself was warned at one site, that despite having arrived with half an hour to spare, if I did not get to the front of the queue before closing time, I would be turned away.’