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As received from Marianne Overton
Leadenham Amenity Site - 'use it or lose it' If you like this service, Marianne needs some help with a petition to keep it open.

Thank you for your letters on keeping the Leadenham Amenity site open at weekends.

You will remember that the contract for Friday opening was only for six months and ceases Sept 30th. The contract for Sat and Sun is due for renewal in March to fit in with the next budget round.

You will doubtless remember the tough battle to get the site opened at weekends, which we finally won, with some support from NKDC of £5k per year. The policy development group of seven County Councillors visited the site some months ago. It is not as good as other sites in that you have to climb stairs to put your rubbish in the skips, whereas other sites have cars driving up a ramp and dropping rubbish down into the skips. All sites should be like that, but Leadenham is considered smaller and therefore would not warrant the expense. To get all sites up to top notch, the group recommended closing Leadenham to the public. I argued the case with the portfolio holder, Lewis Strange, and he over-rode that recommendation and made the decision to try a 6 month pilot extending the hours to include Friday, with the proviso that we should “use it or lose it”. However, this has not been well publicized. They also looked at the size of area is not within their arbitrary radius of Sleaford, Lincoln and North Hykeham.

If you feel this is a useful campaign, please find attached petition to gather names during October. I will seek to get it presented at Council and mention to the development group that it is on its way. It will help support our case and give Ray and me a clear mandate. As always letters are still the most useful, but it usually helps to use all means at our disposal. A petition cannot be ignored and there is a formal process for dealing with them.

Many thanks and Kind Regards,

Marianne

The petition period has now closed. The Council has committed to keeping the site open on Saturday and Sunday but budget constraints may affect this decision next year so letters of support will always be useful.