I AM a regular user of the recycling centre and am often stuck in a traffic queue.

Each time I have had to queue there has been an operative at the entrance stopping traffic because a Severn Waste articulated lorry is manoeuvring in the yard.

Changing a container can take upwards of 20 minutes during which time the site is closed to incoming vehicles and traffic backs up onto the Worcester Road.

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A booking system would, in my view, not alleviate the traffic problem unless Severn Waste can forecast container changing times at least 24 hours in advance.

Furthermore it could be argued that a booking system could lead to increases in fly tipping.

Cheltenham District Council would be able to advise on that as they have introduced booking.

Other recycling centres around the country that I have used are designed such that changing a container does not close the whole site.

I would therefore posit that the site at Newlands is no longer suitable for the current volume of recycling and that a new design — perhaps incorporating some of the traffic management solutions employed during the Covid pandemic — or better still a new site would solve the problem.

Alan Boydell

Malvern

THE proposal to book a slot at the tip is misguided.

As a resident, I frequently take rubbish, mainly garden, to the tip and generally can get in and out with minimum delay.

The only time there is a small queue outside is when the workers are moving the large bins with a lorry.

Having to book a slot won’t change the delay when bins are being moved.

Peter Upton

Malvern