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SAVED! — Angus Council votes to keep Monifieth recycling centre open for another year

Monifieth recycling centre.
Monifieth recycling centre.

Angus Council has responded to public pressure and agreed a further stay of execution for the Monifieth recycling centre.

The service has been under threat for months since the council ruled it was too expensive to keep open.

It will now remain open for at least a further 12 months after council leader Bob Myles tabled a surprise motion to a meeting of the full council in Forfar on Thursday opposing the closure of any Angus skip sites.

A review of previously approved plans which would have seen Monifieth closed in July was one of the first steps taken by the multi-party administration which swept to Angus power following the local elections earlier this year.

 

However, there has been a huge public backlash to the closure proposal.

At a showdown meeting in Forfar today, council leader Bob Myles lodged an amendment recommending that the closure is postponed for a year while further options are considered.

He told councillors: “We must make the right decisions, not the quick decisions.”

Councillors meeting in Forfar on Thursday.

The postponement was agreed by 13 votes to 8, although reduced opening hours will still go ahead across a number of sites in Angus.

The strength of feeling had been made clear to Mr Myles and other key council figures when they faced the public at meetings in Monifieth and Kirriemuir in recent days.

The Monifieth closure had been mooted as part of a £250,000 savings package that would merge Forfar and Kirriemuir’s recycling service, possibly at Padanaram.

Monifieth community council chair Sheena Cochrane said: “We’re delighted with this. We hope they can thoroughly review the operation of all the sites and come up with a more permanent solution.”

For full coverage of the meeting, and reaction, see Friday’s Courier