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22/05/2008 by admin.
A new door-step green recycling scheme is being launched across Havant.The dedicated green waste collection service will be started by Havant Borough Council next year – but residents will have to pay to take part.The fortnightly service will collect green waste, such as hedge trimmings and grass cuttings, and take them to recycling centres for composting.
The council is spending £82,000 on buying a new collection truck to provide the service.
Under the new scheme, residents will pay an annual licence fee of £25 for one reusable bag or £45 for two bags. A collection truck will come to their door every two weeks.
People who apply early for the scheme will get a discount and will be charged £22. Those on state benefits will receive a 33 per cent discount and pay £18.75.
Council leaders are hoping the scheme, to be introduced next April, will boost local recycling rates.
Around 32 per cent of household waste is recycled in the Havant Borough compared with just five per cent back in 1993. But the council has to improve far more to reach the government target of 40 per cent by 2010.
Council leader Tony Briggs said: ‘We’re up there with the upper quartile of local authorities for recycling rates in the country and this is going to help even more.
‘We’re already meeting government targets, but we want to do even better.’
The scheme will be in addition to the alternate fortnightly collection for refuse and recyclables.
Green waste is currently collected by the council, but under a much smaller and more limited scheme.
Green plastic sacks are sold to residents for £1.50 each, reduced to £1 for people on benefits.
Residents then have to ring up the council offices to get a truck to come and collect the bag, which is not reusable.
The council is hoping that around 10 per cent of households – 4,700 homes – take up the new service.
Cllr Briggs added: ‘It’s also going to reduce people’s carbon footprint. At the moment people drive to the household waste recycling centre to get rid of green waste.
‘But now we will have just one vehicle making that journey.’
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20/05/2008 by admin.
PLANS to slash the maximum stay time at a car park in Emsworth have been given the go ahead by Havant Borough Council.
The car park in South Street, currently has a maximum stay time of 24 hours, but under the change from the council users will be restricted to a maximum time of just four hours.
Many of the towns traders rely on the car park for easy access in and out of work, but will now have to find somewhere else to park once their four hours are up.
The change will be in force from Monday to Saturdays, between 8am and 6pm. Parking for up to four hours will cost £1.50.
Changes were also made to parking on Sundays and bank holidays, up to four hours is 50p and over four hours will cost £1.
Permit holders will not be affected by the change.
The plan will come into force within the next couple of months, once the necessary paperwork has been done at the council.
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