Guest 713- Registered: 19 Mar 2011
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HAS ANYBODY GOT A APPOINTMENT TO GO TO THE TIP & WOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE A SMALL ITEM THERE FOR ME I CAN NOT GET THERE,AS I AM DISABLED I WOULD BE VEY GRATFULL
THANK YOU
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,316
Sorted!
Terry
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Good
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Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,818
I wish the tip would go back to normal again instead of having to keep making appointments but i had heard from someone that works there that this is how it will always be from now on.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Not a great hardship
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
Recent exchange at TIP:
WGS: 'How long do you think this'll go on for?'
Worker: 'Forever, mate. Council love it.'
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Seems a sensible arrangement.I expect with the old system Monday’s could be busier than say Wednesday .Least this way you can judge how many will be visiting the tip.Like the Doctors you have to have appointment systems or indeed the .hairdressers.
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,818
Appointments are ok but was so much better when you could just call in,seemed to work well as it was.A friend of ours on Veolia said there is much more fly tipping since the appointment system came in.You only have to drive through the country lanes to see how worse things have got.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Surely there were more queues on the old system .Sometime right past the roundabout.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,101
I suspect Andy B is correct. If fewer cars are being dealt with at the tip more are going to be tempted to fly tip, especially in a time of pandemic when half the world seems to be into DIY.
No doubt DDC will be able to provide and up to date analysis of usage at the tip?
(What? You mean they don't even know how many vehicles are using it daily?
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
a good case for fly tipping, who wants to stinky rubbish in the back yard, which encourags rats and seagulls.,
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Captain Haddock wrote:No doubt DDC will be able to provide and up to date analysis of usage at the tip?
(What? You mean they don't even know how many vehicles are using it daily?
)
Tip is KCC.
But I understand DDC have their brains working on a similar domestic rubbish booking system right now.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
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Sue Nicholas wrote:Surely there were more queues on the old system .Sometime right past the roundabout.
Not so, in my experience. Unless you are first, there is now always a queue, as you're forced to wait while you're allocated a space. Queues were guaranteed when KCC introduced 'vehicular distancing' and improvised new yellow boxes to prevent cars from hugging each other, thus cutting the number of vehicles allowed on site at any one time to, I'd say, about 14 or 15.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
My daughter who does our tip runs is quite happy if the booking system stays as it should stop the long wait while the various containers are moved or whatever else creates those long queues.
The impatient and disorganised will still grumble, those who only think of themselves will continue to fly tip unless caught and severely punished.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,071
The booking system can have absolutely no bearing on container movement, as even the oversized minds at KCC cannot predict when one of the containers will fill up and need to be substituted.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
Roll on next bank holiday weekend when every man and his dog has been inspired to do some work in the garden and there is only a small number of slots at the tip.
I suspect KCC are going to be very happy with the new system as they are going to be able to out do most other local authorities with the outstanding level of recycling they have achieved.
I also understand they have not had to employ any of the casual staff that always covered weekends and bank holidays for over a year now!
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Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
Not KCC Reginald with casual staff but their contractor.
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