I attended the Environment Scrutiny and Review Panel at Bournemouth Council tonight.One point that was raised was the exclusion of anyone who isn't a Bournemouth Council Tax payer and lives more than 3 kilometers from Milhams Recycling and Waste Centre.
Undoubtedly this policy has helped Bournemouth's recycling and waste targets, but it has inconvenienced people in the general locality greatly. Milhams is on the edge of Bournemouth, essentially where Bournemouth, Poole and East Dorset Councils' boundaries meet.
I'll be campaigning for this radius to be widened after the local elections in Bournemouth in May. The site is the closest waste facility for people in Merley, Bearwood, Canford Bottom and Colehill, yet many of these places are more than 3 kilometers from the site. If we are really committed to improving recycling and waste management we should find a formula by which people in the wider area can use the facility.
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There is a recycling facility, albeit a fairly primitive one, as part of the refuse site near Flight Refuelling on the outskirts of Wimborne. This is 5 minutes away from Colehill and might prove to be an adequate solution for their residents? Furthermore, one of my priorities - if elected to East Dorset District - is to ensure that our kerbside recycling scheme reaches 100% of households by 2010. At the moment we are averaging 92% - an impressive figure, but one that is no doubt neglecting certain residents, which, from the sound of your post, could be those living in Colehill and the surrounding areas.
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