Pendle MP, Gordon Prentice, is saying no to the possible closure of  the household waste  recycling centre in Barnoldswick.

The proposal to close the centre is being considered by a Task Group of the County Council’s Sustainable Development Overview & Scrutiny Committee. The Committee decided last month to set up the Group “in the context of current and budgetary pressures”.

Speaking from Westminster the MP said “”Living in Barnoldswick I use the centre regularly and it is always busy. I deplore this proposal.”

“The whole point of recycling centres is that they should be local. Quite apart from the inconvenience for Barlick people having to traipse over to Colne to recycle their household items, there would be an environmental cost in all the journeys made which would defeat the object.”

“Looking at this particular option I fear that the main reason it  has been put forward is the amount of one-off savings that would be made by the County Council by selling off sites. I am writing to the Committee to urge them to reject it.”