The council has issued a warning amid four weeks of disruption at a recycling centre in a Derbyshire town – with residents set to encounter longer queues.

Residents using Derbyshire County Council’s Household Waste Recycling Centre in Ilkeston are being urged to leave extra time for their visit from Monday, September 28 – while improvements are made at the site.

The centre will remain open as usual from 9.30am until 5.30pm, seven days a week, while essential maintenance work is carried out to improve drainage. But the number of vehicles that can be safely accommodated on-site at any one time will be reduced from 18 to around nine –which means visitors may experience longer queues than usual. The work will take around four weeks to complete.

Visitors are urged to help reduce delays by sorting their waste before they arrive at the centre.

Residents will encounter delays at the site over the next four weeks.

placeholder image — Residents will encounter delays at the site over the next four weeks.

Councillor Carol Wood, Derbyshire County Council’s cabinet member for environment, said: “Essential maintenance work is needed to improve the drainage at Ilkeston Household Waste Recycling Centre.

“We’ll do all we can to keep things running smoothly on-site while essential maintenance is carried out to improve the drainage at Ilkeston Household Waste Recycling Centre.

“We ask residents to bear with us while this important work is carried out and apologise for any inconvenience that may be caused.”