Kettlebaston Parish Council, news on waste.

Kettlebaston Church

Yesterday morning I went to Kettlebaston Village Hall for one of the quarterly meetings of the  Parish Council.

Kettlebaston Parish Council meets on a Saturday because a number of its members work away during the week and the village is a very small place, only comprising some 65 or so electors.

The District Councillor, Clive Arthey was also there, as was Cally Boardman, our Local Community Co-ordinator whose work I described in a post in January. There was even a member of the public present!

As usual a warm welcome was extended and proceedings were helped along with a cup of coffee and a biscuit.

Clive was as usual able to tell us a good deal about what is going on in the world of Waste due to his long standing membership of the Suffolk Waste Partnership.  He explained the new measures that have been introduced with regard to the disposal of building waste such as hardcore and plasterboard. Limits on disposal have been relaxed but small charges are now being made. Information is available HERE.

Clive mentioned that he had recently visited the new charity re-use shop that has opened at Foxhall Household Waste Recycling Centre.  'It is amazing what people throw away' he said, as he described the stack of old vinyl records. electrical items, chairs, toys and other interesting items that are on sale.  Information about the Foxhall shop can be found HERE.

We also had an interesting discussion about the changes that are being proposed to the Fire Service.   I was obliged to make it clear that reductions are being contemplated in the light of 10 years' evidence of falling call out requests, not 1 year as is apparently being reported by some.