Operating seven free skips in sites across Worcester involves unnecessary costs, says the council.
Local Democracy Reporting ServiceThe local authority plans to stop its Saturday skip service next year to make annual savings of about £50,000., allow residents to drop off bulky household waste locally if they are unable to access recycling centres.The seven skips, reintroduced in 2021, are sited at locations including Weir Lane in Lower Wick, Waverly Street near Cherry Orchard Nature Reserve and the KGV Playing Fields in Brickfields Road.
It has warned of job losses and further cuts to services with a budget shortfall expected to rise to at least £4m in the next five years. Bosses are already discussing cuts to departmental budgets and have reopened a voluntary redundancy scheme. There are also plans to look at outsourcing services and turn to sponsors, volunteers and other community organisations to run activities in a bid to bringing spending in line with income.
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