COUNCILLORS on the East Riding of Yorkshire Council this week approved a planning application for a proposed £800,000 refurbishment of Driffield’s Kelleythorpe household recycling site.
Contractors will move onto the site on January 22 and work is likely to take up to three months, depending on the weather.
The site will be larger, taking in nearby council-owned scrub land to allow space for the improvements, which include access and exit from Wadsworth Road, creating a one way system around the site to reduce traffic on Church Lane.
Councillor Symon Fraser, portfolio holder for environment, housing and planning, said: “This will give the area’s residents the sort of up-to-date facility they deserve.
“In recent years, Driffield residents have increased the amount they recycle and are among the best anywhere. When work on the site is finished, our residents will find it even easier to do the run to the site to recycle.
“The aim is to have it ready in time for spring cleaning and that early pruning of the garden after winter. Much, though, will depend on what the weather throws at us in the next couple of months.”
When the site re-opens, the steps leading up to the lip of skips will be gone and instead it will be a split-level site so that residents can drive up ramps to drop their recycling and waste into skips.
Kelleythorpe is a popular recycling site which regularly turns in monthly recycling rates up to 80 per cent during the summer months.
During the closure of the site, recycling and waste can be taken to the household waste recycling site at Carnaby, Bridlington.
The planning application to extend and reorganised the 0.3 hectare Church Lane, Little Driffield, site to cover 0.49 hectares was granted on Monday by the Eastern Area Planning sub committee