Liberal Democrats are winning the campaign to stop Surrey County Council introducing new waste disposal charges with the Leader of the Council announcing that the introduction of the charges for disposing of construction waste and roofing felt will be deferred. In making this announcement he confirmed that more research will be done into the environmental impacts of the proposed charges.

This follows on from the announcement that the small CRCs (Tips) that were due for closure in the Spring would be kept open until October (albeit only taking items which can be recycled) whilst further assessments were made on the viability of keeping these Tips open in the long term.

The campaign to protect our services is gaining momentum and gradually the proposals to introduce new charges and close our smaller Tips are being reviewed. But the campaign is not yet won. We will continue to press the County Council to withdraw these new charges and to confirm that all our Tips will be kept open and accept “black bag” waste.