Cambridgeshire County Councillors plans to introduce a van and trailer e-permit scheme across Cambridgeshire’s nine household recycling centres (HRCs) will commence in October this year.
The Council says this will allow it to “better regulate” the use of vans and trailers at HRCs helping to ensure only household waste is delivered to sites.
Any resident planning to visit a HRC with a van or trailer should obtain an e-permit using an online system beforehand.
We want to prevent unlawful trade waste being disposed of at our HRCs, which is ultimately at a cost to the council tax paying residents of Cambridgeshire
These e-permits will be limited to 12 visits per year. To allow larger household and garden jobs, there will be an exemption to the scheme for trailers up to 1.5m (5ft) in length (excluding the towing mechanism bar) or 570 litre capacity.
Cambridgeshire County Council’s Chair of the Highways and Infrastructure Committee, Councillor Mathew Shuter said: “We’re seeing more and more pressures on our HRCs, between 2012/13 and 2016/17 there’s been a 20% rise in waste collected at them and this increases the pressure on our already strained budgets.
“We want to prevent unlawful trade waste being disposed of at our HRCs, which is ultimately at a cost to the council tax paying residents of Cambridgeshire.
“With population growth and changes made by neighbouring authorities affecting us now is the right time for us to bring in a scheme that will not only address this issue but to allow us to monitor who uses our sites and ensure we can cope with rising demand on the service.”
Additional site staff will be available to help at all nine HRCs in the early months of the scheme being introduced.