MP calls for tip in north of Dudley
Dudley’s MP has waded into the argument about lack of provision for a tip in the north of the borough.
Sonia Kumar MP has written to council leader, Cllr Patrick Harley, describing waste disposal services as essential and ‘not a luxury’.
Dudley currently has just one household waste recycling centre (HWRC) in the borough, on Birmingham Street in Stourbridge.
Ms Kumar said: “While I understand that the council has proposed plans for a new centralised household waste recycling centre, these proposals do not address the immediate challenges facing residents today.
“Temporary or ‘pop-up’ waste facilities previously operated successfully in the north of the borough and were both well used and welcomed by local residents.”
The Labour MP goes on to call for the reinstatement of regular and accessible facilities in the north of the borough and the use of pop-up tips as an interim measure.
Ms Kumar’s plea may be answered in the budget for the next financial year from the Conservative-run council.
At a meeting of the authority’s Communities and Growth Scrutiny Committee in January before Ms Kumar’s letter to the leader, Cllr Damian Corfield, Dudley cabinet member for neighbourhoods and a ward member for Sedgley, was asked about tips in the north of Dudley.
Cllr Corfield said: “We have got a strategic review on HWRC provision and within the budget there is funding to look at provision for the north of Dudley.
“There is funding in the budget to provide HWRC provision of some sort, we are not sure exactly what that is yet but the importance of having provision in the north is key and we have factored that in.”
Cllr Corfield added, while he could not give a date for any new HWRC provision in the north of the borough, he hoped to see it ‘within the financial year’.
