The Council – apparently without any sense of irony – have issued the following media statement:
“Spring is upon us and this means longer opening hours at City of York Council’s Household Waste Recycling centres.
From April 1 the sites will stay open later, to allow residents to use the lighter evenings to dispose of large amounts of recycling, garden waste and other rubbish.
Cllr Dafydd Williams, Cabinet member for Communities and Neighbourhoods said “As the evenings become longer the opening times have been extended to allow residents to make full use of the recycling facilities available. The sites are also open over the Easter weekend too.”
The sites provide a wide range of recycling facilities for household materials including all types of electricals, old textiles, shoes, clothing, wood, metal, garden waste, cardboard as well as plastic bottles, glass, cans and paper. Full details of what you can recycle at each site is available at www.york.gov.uk/waste
Opening times from 1 April until 30 September are as follows:
• Hazel Court: Monday to Saturday 8.30am to 7.00pm, Sundays 8.30am to 4.00pm
• Towthorpe/Strensall:- daily 8.30am to 7.00pm
• Beckfield Lane: Monday to Friday 5.00pm to 7.00pm, Saturday and Sunday: 10.00am to 2.00pm. (1st April – 16th April only!!!!)
• All sites will be open as usual on Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday.
Meanwhile a total of 2189 residnets have now signed the petition asking for the Beckfield Lane tiip to remain open. These include 580 from residents living in the Westfield Ward which Cllr Wiliams (see above) is supposed to represent. 727 live in the Acomb Ward where the 2 Labour Councillors have also yet to declare whether they will support keeping Beckfield Lane open.
NB. The next distribution of free compost will take place at Yorwaste’s Harewood Whin site, on Tinker Lane, off Wetherby Road on:
• Sunday 1 April
• Sunday 6 May
• Sunday 3 June
• Sunday 8 July
• Sunday 5 August
• Sunday 2 September
• Sunday 7 October
The compost will be available from 9.30am until 2.30pm each day and residents are asked to bring a shovel and bags or containers to take the compost home in.