Just open tip all week round

When the local refuse tip opened seven days a week it provided the community with a very good service.

Ever since the opening hours were cut to five days a week there have been huge queues of traffic all waiting to gain entry on the days that it is open, and on particularly busy days it has caused traffic to tail back onto the A24. Waiting times in the queue have also become ridiculously long.

Rather than opening the facility seven days a week to solve this problem, West Sussex County Council has decided to stick with five days, introduce a booking system and limit people to one visit per week.

For many, the need to visit the tip is a spur-of-themoment requirement. People cannot always pre-determine their need or frequency. I am sure many residents have had to visit the facility more than once in a day.

The introduction of a booking system complicates the process. You will have people turn up to use the facility who have not made, or do not realise that they require, a prior booking which will involve vehicles being refused entry and turning around in the one-way traffic. Plus you will get people who have made bookings and do not turn up. It sounds like potential chaos.

If visiting the local refuse tip becomes a complication many people will be encouraged to fly-tip their waste or not recycle it.

The costs of administering the new booking system, additional traffic management, a decline in valuable recyclable material, and an increase in fly-tipping, cannot outweigh simply opening the tip seven days a week.

NICK COSTIN

Meadvale, Horsham