The county council’s gritters were called on their first salt run of the winter overnight as low temperatures hit Hampshire. Salting lorries left the depots in the early hours to make sure s... Read more
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Hampshire County Council is set to carry on charging the public to dispose of “DIY waste” at Basingstoke’s tip, despite a Government ruling insisting that the policy could be illegal. Reside... Read more
Hampshire County Council’s new strategy of charging residents to dispose of “DIY waste” at its Household Waste Recyling Centres (HWRC) has been thrown up in the air, after the Government rul... Read more
The borough council’s lead on regulatory services has given her backing to an idea for the authority to take over the running of Basingstoke’s tip to be considered at committee next year. A... Read more
A Tadley councillor has called for the town to get its own tip, after residents were banned from using any of West Berkshire’s Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC) last month. An agreeme... Read more
Basingstoke’s tip will start charging residents and small businesses to dispose of certain types of waste from this Saturday. As previously reported in the Observer, the site at Wade Road, a... Read more
An agreement to allow some Basingstoke and Deane residents to be able to use Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) across the county border in West Berkshire is being finalised. As of ne... Read more
Hampshire County Council has signed up to a commitment to help make food and drink production and consumption more sustainable. The authority has joined up with the county’s waste partnershi... Read more
The leader of Basingstoke’s Liberal Democrat group has branded a planned crackdown by the county council on fly-tipping as a “sham”. Plans to tackle the problem were top of the agenda at a m... Read more
The county council is working on a way to let some residents that live close to the West Berkshire border continue to use Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRC) within the district. West B... Read more
