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Councillor defends waste fees
14/08/23
A COUNCILLOR has criticised the Government’s plan to abolish fees for the disposal of DIY waste at public tips. Some local authorities, including Oxfordshire County Council, charge for people to take DIY waste to household waste recycling centres, ...
Keeping our sweepings
18/08/14
THOUSANDS of pounds could be saved with plans for a new processing plant at a landfill site in Ewelme. Grundon Waste Management has applied for planning permission for a road sweepings recycling plant. Road sweepings used to be composted with ...
Skip service
06/05/14
A SKIP will be outside the Horns pub in Crazies Hill from 8am to 11am tomorrow (Saturday) for residents to dispose of unwanted electrical appliances. The skip is being supplied by Wokingham Borough Council.
Workmen probe Henley's sewers with cameras
17/10/12
Thames Water is using video cameras on cables to check 100 of Henley's sewers for blockages.
Trade waste pile moved on eve of new collection service
04/08/17
A HUGE pile of trade waste has been cleared from a council depot in Henley. Personal trainers at the No Limits Gym in Reading Road complained after the bags of rubbish built up at the neighbouring council depot last week. The bags came from ...
Row over meeting to discuss trade waste being held in secret
14/08/17
THE chairman of a Henley Town Council working group has come under fire for holding a meeting to discuss trade waste in private. Stefan Gawrysiak, a member of the ruling Henley Residents’ Group, had the press and public excluded from last ...
Streets strewn with rubbish as overflowing bins are unemptied
29/10/19
THE streets of Henley were strewn with rubbish on Monday after the public bins had not been emptied over the weekend. Bins in the town centre had been filled up during Saturday and Sunday and by Monday morning they were overflowing and ...
Food bins can take plastic
27/07/17
RESIDENTS of South Oxfordshire can now use plastic bags to line their food waste bins and caddies. Food waste is collected every week and taken to Agrivert’s anaerobic digestion plant near Wallingford to be recycled into gas for ...
'Stasi-style inspection of bins is causing more fly-tipping'
23/04/17
FLY-TIPPING is creating extra work for Sonning Common’s village cleaner, writes Connor McLoughlin. Parish clerk Philip Collings said Oxfordshire County Council’s new rules for commercial vehicles using its recycling centres ...
Councillors to meet waste contractor
10/07/17
THE problem with trade waste being left on Henley’s streets overnight could be solved next week. Town councillors are to meet staff from Grundon, one of the two contractors which collect waste left out by shops, cafés and ...
Shake-up of bin collections
28/11/22
MORE than 6,500 people have responded to a public consultation on rubbish and recycling collections in Wokingham borough. The borough council says bin collections cannot continue as they are due to financial pressures, ...
Waste fines for rogue retailers
20/11/17
BUSINESSES in Henley could be fined if they don’t put their waste out for collection at a designated time. The town council has applied for the power to take action against retailers who flout the rules. South ...
Smelly mound of trade waste at council depot
TRADE waste cleared from Henley town centre has been dumped in a huge pile at a council depot. Bags of rubbish from shops and businesses have continued to pile up at the town council site off Reading Road, ...
Recycling centre hours extended
27/03/14
THE opening hours of the Oakley Wood household recycling centre, near Crowmarsh, are to be extended on one day a week from next month. It will be open until 8pm on a Thursday in addition to the normal ...
Residents' fury as rubbish piled up
10/01/14
RUBBISH was left to pile up on a Henley street after binmen failed to collect it during Christmas and New Year. Recycling and food waste was scheduled to be collected from Norman Avenue on Friday, ...
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