Upset at the decision to close two household recycling centres in the north of the county will be heard.
Council leader Ian Thorn, cabinet member for waste Paul Sample, and cabinet member for assets Helen Belcher will be fielding questions at an extraordinary meeting of the Royal Wootton Bassett & Cricklade Area Board.
According to the just-published meeting agenda, the leading Liberal Democrats will give a presentation about their administration's new waste strategy "specifically the decision to close the household recycling centres at Purton and Lower Compton from August 2026."
That will be followed by a response to some of the questions that have been filed in advance, before questions are opened to the floor.
The meeting will be chaired by Andrew Matthews (Liberal Democrat), Wiltshire councillor for Royal Wootton Bassett East and chairman of the area board since September 2025.
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On December 9, Wiltshire Council announced its intention to close the household recycling centres at Purton and Lower Compton, near Calne.
Of the council's 10 HRCs, they are the only ones that are privately operated.
The council's contract with Hills Waste Solutions is due to expire in July this year, and councillors said they were concerned about the cost of renewing the contracts - although neither side have confirmed exactly how much that would be, and how much it would cost Wiltshire Council to establish a new HRC for the north of the county.
The council has also not confirmed exactly where the new HRC would be, although the most likely contender seems to be the former salt depot in Royal Wootton Bassett.
The area board covers the parishes of Broad Hinton, Winterbourne Bassett, Braydon, Broad Town, Clyffe Pypard and Bushton, Cricklade, Latton, Lydiard Millicent, Lydiard Tregoze, Lyneham and Bradenstoke, Marston Meysey, Purton, Tockenham and Royal Wootton Bassett.
The other Wiltshire councillors on the area board are Nick Dye (Liberal Democrat, Cricklade & Latton), Allison Bucknell (Conservative, Lyneham), Martin Denz (Liberal Democrat, Royal Wootton Bassett South & West), Lianna Konig (Liberal Democrat, Royal Wootton Bassett North) and Jacqui Lay (Conservative, Purton).
The meeting takes place on Tuesday, January 20 at Royal Wootton Bassett Memorial Hall, Station Road, Royal Wootton Bassett. Doors open at 6pm and the meeting runs from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
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