Here's when Calderdale's tips will return to seven-day opening
Calderdale Council has announced when the borough’s tips will go back to opening seven-days-a-week.
All of the borough’s household waste recycling centres will return to being open every day from Monday, December 14.
Calderdale Reform announced in July, shortly after taking over the running of Calderdale Council, that all tips would return to seven-day opening by Christmas.
Under Labour, the household waste recycling centres in Brighouse, Halifax, Elland, Sowerby Bridge and Todmorden were all closed for one or two days a week in a bid to balance the budget.
The partial closures were agreed as an alternative to closing Elland’s tip completely.
At Calderdale Reform’s first cabinet meeting since taking over the council, cabinet member for public services, Peter Hunt, said the transition of waste services to a new provider – Norse - would allow restoring seven-day opening to all the borough’s tips as part of the agreement.
Coun Hunt claimed the the move would be at no additional cost to the tax payer – a claim disputed by rival councillors.