Derby Telegraph

12-TRIP LIMIT ON GOING TO THE TIP

- By ZENA HAWLEY zena.hawley@reachplc.com

HOUSEHOLDS will only be able to take rubbish to Raynesway tip 12 times a year if new plans for operating the site are approved.

Derby City Council’s cabinet will consider measures that also include the continued use of the MiPermit booking system, restrictin­g access to non-Derbyshire and Derby residents and banning people who flout the rules.

The system will allow the introducti­on of a 12 visits per year e-permit. Once all 12 are used up a household could not book any more visits until the following year.

The measures are intended to free up slots and stop traders dumping waste at the site.

The waste centre accessed has seen long queues at peak times over many years, especially on and bank holidays.

The council thinks 12 visits a year will be enough for most people and will deter traders from visiting as they generate too much waste to have limits placed on the number of visits.

Since the site reopened after the initial lockdown in March, the council says most people only visited once during the period from June to September.

A report going to the cabinet meeting said: “By limiting visits, customers will only book when they intend on visiting and this will help spread visits across the year, allowing fair access for all.”

It adds: “Discouragi­ng businesses and traders from using the centre will free up site capacity and booking slots for household recycling and disposal use.”

Excluding people from outside the city and county, will also increase the number of booking slots available and prevent the city council from picking up the cost of disposing of waste from other areas. It is expected the measures would save the council about £150,000 a year.

The booking system will enable the council to manage the issue of queuing and gridlock and allow social distancing to continue, according to the report.

The report also contains data which shows there were 37,965 bookings made to visit the centre between mid-May through to the end of September. Of these, 24% – over 9,000 customers – did not show up and in one example, a person booked 27 times and failed to turn up for 24 of the slots.

The most prolific users booked 45 and 43 slots over the same 138day period. Not only did they fail to turn up for 12 and five bookings respective­ly, but one booked using a property developmen­t and lettings company.

Additional­ly, the top 10 users made 296 bookings between them, did not show for 106 of them, but this meant one or two of them visited every day, which is considered by the council in excess of what is needed to dispose of household waste from their own house.

The site is not licensed to accept trade waste and the changes will help operator HW Martin, on behalf of the city council and Renewi, to run the site. Last year 19,420 tonnes of waste were taken to the site.

The new measures will be discussed at the cabinet meting on Wednesday which will be held virtually on YouTube from 4pm and could be introduced early in the new year.

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