Date set for Ludlow rubbish tip closure
Ludlow's rubbish tip is to close by the end of February, council bosses have decided.
The axe has fallen on the Coder Road Amenity Skip and Household Recycling Centre after months of consultation and a petition signed by 2,000 people to keep the site open.
Campaigners today said the decision was "appalling".
Shropshire Council earmarked the site for closure last year, claiming it was not being used anywhere near as much as the other waste sites in the county and shutting it down would save the authority £100,000 a year.
The council also pointed to below average recycling rates and claimed it would cost the taxpayer £600,000 to bring Coder Road up to the same standard as its other sites. Councillor Steve Charmley, Portfolio Holder for Business Growth, finally pulled the plug on the site at a decision-making meeting last night.
A decision on the site's future was put off last October after a massive response to the petition calling for it to be preserved, but a second round of consultation which ended at Christmas only got 112 responses.
