Chipping Norton welcomes recycling
proposal
CHIPPING Norton looks set to get a new household recycling centre after
consultations held by West Oxfordshire District Council received a positive
response from a few residents. After West Oxfordshire District Council assured
the last Town Council that Enstone was the preferred site WODC have now
confirmed that Greystones was their intended choice after all.
Of the public consultation 200 people who filled in the questionnaire
188 were in favour appears to give the green light to the waste disposal site,
anyone who read the Arthur Scargill type questionnaire could not have failed to
notice it was loaded in favour of Greystones not so much as where or if you
wanted the tip but what was going there, a sort of done deal. One of the reasons
WODC used for closing Dean pit was it wasn't needed because people were
re-cycling more through kerbside collections and as many may remember Dean pit
once accepted trade waste, now WODC in their questionnaire asks if the new
centre should be open for business use too? Cllr David Harvey, cabinet member
for the environment said: “The response we have received sends a clear message
that residents in Chipping Norton and the surrounding area would like to see a
household recycling centre at Greystones. “West Oxfordshire residents are keen
recyclers and this facility will benefit both the local community and the
environment.” quite clearly gone from not needed to desperately needed, for
those who support the scheme thinking of themselves believing only Chipping
Norton residents will use it in reality is the pit is intended to attract users
from up to 10 miles away to dispose of their rubbish IN Chipping
Norton.
Supermarket
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ED. Like the Sainsbury's supermarket
application both proposals were about the same distance from the centre of
town, both catering for the needs of the town and surrounding villages, one
supplying food, necessities and employment the other disposing of unwanted
rubbish, both attracting traffic which was one of the objections to the
supermarket, one bringing money to the town the other rubbish, and which one
did the council and a handful of residents support - the rubbish tip,
incidentally the tip will open 7 days a week like a supermarket, previously the
town council objected to Sainsbury's and job creation however Chipping Norton
mayor Martin Jarrett welcomed the recycling proposals.“We are very keen for it
to go ahead especially after the closure of Dean Pit. We are a long way now
from any waste disposal apart from the bins in the town car park.” if there has ever been an example of a town council
backing the wrong proposal and making the town look stupid then this has to be
it, Cllr Simon Hoare, cabinet member for resources said: “We are convinced that
this will be a good use for what is, in essence, a redundant piece of land.” I
assume he is talking about Chipping Norton.