Household Waste Recycling Centre Service - Public Consultation

The future of the Household Waste Recycling Centre service provided by Kent County Council for use by Kent householders has been subject to a public consultation. This consultation closed on 9 February 2012.

What happens next?

Following the public consultation, recommendations were presented to Cabinet on 19 March 2012 for consideration which took into account the feedback obtained from the public consultation and the full Equalities Impact Assessment. Cabinet endorsed all recommendations and delegated the final decision to the Cabinet Member for Environment, Highways and Waste. A petition was received in respect of the proposal to close the Richborough HWRC. This was debated at the meeting of the County Council on Thursday 29 March 2012. The Cabinet Member made his decision on 3 April 2012.

You can read the findings from the consultation and subsequent decisions by viewing the report (PDF, 222k).