Tip to close for five days for resurfacing after accident
Tuesday, 15th April 2014.
Haverhill's waste recycling centre is to be closed for five days to allow for resurfacing work after a member of the public suffered an injury there.
Essential major resurfacing works need to be undertaken at Haverhill Household Waste Recycling Centre to improve the surface of the site making it a better and safer experience for its users.
In order to complete these works the site will be temporarily closed for five days from Monday, April 28 to Friday, May 2. The site will reopen on Saturday, May 3, at 9am.
Suffolk County Council's waste team say if you need to dispose of waste during the closure you can visit Bury St Edmunds or Sudbury household waste recycling centres.
The temporary closure of the tip is to allow essential repairs to an area of the surface in the middle of the site. Temporary repairs are no longer sufficient and the central area of the site needs to be excavated and tarmac used to provide a sufficiently hard wearing, long term surface.
The concrete central public area has, over time, broken up and now presents an 'unacceptable trip hazard'. Patch repairing is no longer an option.
A RIDDOR reportable accident occurred on March 4 when a member of the public was walking across the site, outside of the marked safe walkway, and tripped on one of the cracks sustaining a broken arm.
Because of the location of the repairs it is not possible for the tip to remain open while the works are carried out, even if the work was carried out in two smaller sections.
The work will be undertaken by SEH Asphalt of Ipswich and paid for by FCC Environment.
A5 leaflets will be handed out to customers on site over the two weeks preceding the closure and delivered to the houses and business premises nearby. There will be signage on site and changes/additions to the Greensuffolk website.
Essential major resurfacing works need to be undertaken at Haverhill Household Waste Recycling Centre to improve the surface of the site making it a better and safer experience for its users.
In order to complete these works the site will be temporarily closed for five days from Monday, April 28 to Friday, May 2. The site will reopen on Saturday, May 3, at 9am.
Suffolk County Council's waste team say if you need to dispose of waste during the closure you can visit Bury St Edmunds or Sudbury household waste recycling centres.
The temporary closure of the tip is to allow essential repairs to an area of the surface in the middle of the site. Temporary repairs are no longer sufficient and the central area of the site needs to be excavated and tarmac used to provide a sufficiently hard wearing, long term surface.
The concrete central public area has, over time, broken up and now presents an 'unacceptable trip hazard'. Patch repairing is no longer an option.
A RIDDOR reportable accident occurred on March 4 when a member of the public was walking across the site, outside of the marked safe walkway, and tripped on one of the cracks sustaining a broken arm.
Because of the location of the repairs it is not possible for the tip to remain open while the works are carried out, even if the work was carried out in two smaller sections.
The work will be undertaken by SEH Asphalt of Ipswich and paid for by FCC Environment.
A5 leaflets will be handed out to customers on site over the two weeks preceding the closure and delivered to the houses and business premises nearby. There will be signage on site and changes/additions to the Greensuffolk website.
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