A COUNCILLOR is calling for Salisbury’s recycling centre to be moved after the council last week announced it would extend the opening hours by an extra day a week.

Wiltshire Council slashed the hours at its recycling centres and shut them two days a week in June 2015 in a bid to save £300,000 a year. What followed was more fly-tipping, less recycling, and queues of cars stretching round the block at tips in Salisbury and Amesbury.

Now the council is proposing to reverse that decision, in part, and only in Salisbury, Trowbridge and Chippenham.

But Wiltshire councillor Richard Clewer said: “The real problem here is the location which is on an industrial estate which is already overly busy. We really need to find an alternative site for the recycling centre but that is proving far from simple as if it is on one side of the city or another it makes it hard for everyone to access.”

When it was suggested that the facility be moved to one of Salisbury’s underused park and ride sites, Cllr Clewer said it was “not a bad idea at all” but there would be some “government subsidy issues” to potentially overcome.

The Journal has asked the council whether it has any current plans to move Salisbury’s recycling centre away from the busy Churchfields industrial estate.