The recycling banks have been removed from The Parade car park to enable more parking spaces to be added.
The planned removal of the recycling banks was brought forward because the car park needs resurfacing which Bluemantle, the landlords, intend to do soon.
Councillor Rod Menlove, Cabinet member with responsibility for environmental services, said: "Cheshire East Council fully recognises the demand for more short-term car parking spaces for shoppers in Alderley Edge.
"The precinct car park is not owned by Cheshire East and the landlords have decided to resurface the area, probably in mid-March. Once this is complete, the Council will then re-line the parking bays to the latest standards.
"The opportunity has been taken to tidy up the area so that the maximum amount of space is available for parking. This involved the removal of the Bring Banks.
"We considered the demand for parking provision against the need for Bring Banks and, on balance, believe it best to have them removed to accommodate this refurbishment. These were in place at The Parade long before the introduction of the kerbside collection of recyclable material from people's homes. Now that this domestic collection service is long established it is difficult to see why the Bring Banks are needed at all.
"Despite this, there are no plans to remove Bring Banks from any other location at present. This was a one-off to accommodate a much-needed increase in parking provision in Alderley Edge.
"At present, the domestic collection service does not include plastic but there are skips for plastic at the Broadway Meadow car park in Wilmslow."
John Leighton, Director at Bluemantle, said "The condition of the surface at The Parade car park has been deteriorating over a period of time. Routine maintenance is no longer practical due to the number of post holes so we are completely resurfacing the car park.
"We have programmed the work for mid-March and Cheshire East have been supportive of our plans.
"On balance we feel that, given the doorstep collections the need for extra parking spaces outweighs the need for recycling banks."
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I am told that much money may be saved by all this...if this is a 'cuts' thing, please say so.
One small box, collected two-weekly, will not deal with my cans & bottles; so where do they go?
Will we shortly see dumping of cans & bottles? Or will they just be shoved into the black wheelie bins and to hell with re-cycling?
Come on C. East, 'fess up...we are big boys and girls...tell us plainly what you are about!
Duncan Herald
We are getting a new full size bin for recyclables
http://www.alderleyedge.com/news/article/3642/council-to-introduce-three-bin-system
We are to get a 3 bin system...1 for 'mixed dry recyclables'...what does that mean in English please?
1 for garden waste; this I comprehend...1 for 'residual waste'; I assume that means everything else or will there be exceptions?
So we are bringing that in to replace the present black wheelie, green wheelie, glass/tins box, paper, cardboard? streamlining?
So to return to my original questions:
Where do all my bottles/cans go? Are they to be mixed and dry? Or residual? Or will we keep the glass/tins box?
Will the banks vanish from Wilmslow?
Is money being saved in this switch around?
Someone needs to make it all clear, hopefully in simple english, for my fluffy little brain!
Other areas would be where? Does that mean we will do the same?
So who/where will the recycling occur, from the 'one-full-size-bin'? Or are we backing away from recycling? Is the 'one full size bin' to be the present black wheelie or will C.East have to fork out for new/big bins?
I persist with the unanswered questions...is this gonna save money? If so, how much?
Will the Wilmslow banks vanish?
By the way Craig...are you an ordinary person or are you speaking for C.East?
This could run and run!
1 - This type of bin system I have seen in South Ayrshire
2 - Yes, I would think reading the article that we will do the same
3 - Don't know who/where the recycling will occur
4 - We cant 'back away' from recycling, unless you want even bigger council tax bills paying for the land fill tax.
5 - 'one full size bin' will be a new bin, so we will have a black, green and silver bin
6 - I would presume it will save money compared to paying the landfill tax (although the costing will have be done by a government employee, so who knows!), and be much quicker to collect, and be much better for the binmen with less bending and lifting.
7 - The banks are being removed to create more parking spaces, dont know about the Wilmslow ones
8 - I'm an 'ordinary person' LOL
so we'll get another big bin...sometime... In the meantime we have overflowing little green tins/bottle bins; is there anyone out there who knows of C.East's latest cunning plan as to where to put the curent overflow of tins/bottles?...if I put them out in a bin liner, will the bin men have been told to take 'em or leave 'em?...how many extra parking spaces? 2 or 3? Was it worth the effort?...I 'hear' that £3 million may be saved eventually if bottle banks are removed!
Love to see opinions from others than Craig 'n me.
" The planned removal of the recycling banks was brought forward "
This has nothing to do with extra car parking spaces .
By implementing the new services they are looking to achieve savings of more than £1 million, £726,00 of which is reflected in the 2011/12 budget - which was passed at Thursday's council meeting.
The intention is also to reduce staff numbers by approximately 40 and vehicles by approximately 17.
I'll publish more information about the proposed new services soon.
This is pure cost cutting, Erika Wenzel's salary will cover the cost of these bottle banks easily. This rubbish happened out in beautiful Connemara in the West of Ireland all the bottle banks were towed away by Galway Council and locals had to make a 45 minute round trip to dump their "recyclables". This area has one main industry tourism yet the tourists are not catered for in refuse collection especially the campers so huge amounts of rubbish are burned in illicit camp fires or have been buried in the beautiful sand dunes.
This is what short sighted EU policies do for you, and throw in an incompetent pen pusher from the council who does not understand cause and effect and this is the total nonsense we have to put up with.
Yes the ex-recycle place looks tidy... perchance Cheshire East will continue tidying; no parking on London Road.?
Will the new bins arrive for Xmas? A singular lack of info. from Cheshire East?
Has Cheshire East's lady head honcho ever been to A/Edge?
Hi Kassie,
You are right, of course it is cost cutting... if 'they' would just say that?
I wonder if the next cost cut might be to close the tip in Macclesfield, then we too can drive to Connemara to shift our rubbish!
P.S. Shall we all turn out and vote? I'm not actually suggesting you vote one way or another, but do please vote... remember that some of your forebears went to jail (or even worse, Australia) to get you the right to vote!