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Guernsey Waste wants to stop having to apply to Environmental Health every time it needs to vary the opening times at Longue Hougue.
The original planning permission, which was granted before the Waste Transfer Station and Household Waste & Recycling Centre were built, stipulates specific operating hours for both facilities.
Under the respective waste management licences, Guernsey Waste needs permission from Environmental Health when it needs to change the hours, for example around Bank Holidays.
Guernsey Waste has now submitted a planning application to vary the hours stipulated, to reduce the requirement for seeking special dispensation, but no changes to opening hours for customers are planned.
If approved, the cut off time for waste being delivered to the transfer station on weekdays will be extended from 12:30 to 16:00.
The site would only receive waste from customers between these times in particular circumstances such as in the event of plant breakdowns or weather disruption.
The transfer station would also be able to start processing waste from 04:30, Monday to Saturday, instead of the current 06:00.
Waste would also be able to be received routinely on Bank Holidays, instead of that being by special arrangement.
This allows parish waste contractors to drop off household waste when collections coincide with a public holiday, as happens now under specific dispensations from Environmental Health.
States Works would also be able to process this material on the day it is received between 04:30 and 09:00.
At present, under the HWRC’s waste management licence, material can only be received from 07:30 to 20:00, Monday to Friday, and between 08:00 and 17:00 on weekends and Bank Holidays.
Although these times extend beyond the site’s normal opening hours for customers, which are not set to change, the current permissions allow for them to be extended if required, for example following closure due to adverse weather.
Guernsey Waste is applying to change the Saturday cut off time to 20:00, to align with weekdays.
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