Just three Nottinghamshire tips to be replaced after months of uncertainty

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Nottinghamshire County Council's leader has confirmed that major changes will be made to just three tips in the area after months of fears about many of them closing. Ben Bradley says that of the 12 tips in Nottinghamshire, just three will be replaced.

West Bridgford will get a new centre within "a couple of miles" of the existing site, partly to improve on safety amid fears about the scale of traffic queues. The other changes being made are to the Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Mansfield tips, both of which will close after being replaced by one new tip "in the immediate vicinity" of both areas.

The confirmation comes after months of fears that as many as nine Nottinghamshire tips could have ended up closing. The authority first carried out an independent review of its recycling centres in 2022 and a group at the council then went through a series of scenarios for the future of Nottinghamshire's tips.

Three scenarios were presented overall - the most extreme of which would have seen nine Nottinghamshire tips being closed and three new "supersites" being created. Another scenario would have seen eight closures and again the creation of three new supersites.

Yet speaking at a meeting on Thursday (September 26), Councillor Bradley went down the list of 12 Nottinghamshire tips and said nine of them would remain open. Describing the current Kirkby and Mansfield tips, the council leader said: "Neither of them are brilliant."

On the future of tips in general, Councillor Bradley said no formal decision had been made but that he wanted to be clear about what the council's eventual ambition was. The council leader added: "No formal decisions have been taken around what we do with a specific site.

"What we can say is what our intention is. We've been through this review...spent months now discussing it." Councillor Bradley said his council wanted to create a "better service that is more accessible." The council leader said formal decisions would be made once sites had been identified and the council had enough funding.