At South Glos Council's last Communities Committee, anyone who uses a works van
as their only vehicle was nearly banned from using South
Gloucestershire’s Sort It centres for their personal waste. Fortunately
we were able to change the Conservative's proposal.
It originally said that vehicles will need to be registered to use the
Sort It centres and “any vehicle registered to a business will be
declined”. If this had passed, anyone who owns or works for a small
business who has their work van as their only vehicle would have been
stopped from using the Sort It centres. They would have had no way to
dispose of their personal household waste.
Claire Young successfully proposed an amendment asking officers to come
up with a scheme to enable those people to continue to use Sort It
centres. They will only be allowed to transport household waste, not
business waste, but it's right that they should be able to access these
services like other residents. Your Focus Team thinks it's important to
stand up for the people who run and work for our local small businesses.
