Lancashire County Council's proposing to cut Household Waste Recycling Centres in Burscough and Skelmersdale from the current 7 day service to just 5 days a week, while also reducing opening hours across every recycling depot by an hour a day.

This will see a number of staff redundancies, as LCC faces significant financial challenges; all service areas have been targeted to carry out cuts in the form of efficiency reviews - despite the council increasing taxes by 6% last April, with further increases to come

Ormskirk's John Fillis, Labour Deputy Leader, told QLocal this weekend: "We brought the Household Waste Recycling Centres in house to improve the service to local communities. The Conservative Administration is now looking to cut the service, which will increase the fly tipping across the county.”

“They estimate to save themselves £734,000. This is a false economy, which will just pass the costs on to the borough councils who will have to clear up the mess caused by LCC. They are not prepared to tell people how many tonnes of waste will be fly tipped around the county as a result of these closures.”

“In the end it is the people of Lancashire who will have to pick up the costs, cuts in service, and the environmental impact which will be something that future generations will pay for in the long term.

"The Conservative claim that Austerity is over has turned out to be a load of rubbish.”

“This is another back door policy, which will be forced through the so called Scrutiny Committee. Lancashire’s consultation is a disgrace there is no open and honest debate with local people who are just left to pay more for less.”