A BAN on some Dorset residents using tips on their doorsteps looks set to continue following county council recommendations not to fund cross-boundary waste disposal.

Restrictions by Bournemouth and Poole councils preventing non-borough residents using their waste disposal sites at Millhams and Nuffield caused uproar, particularly among those living in Corfe Mullen, Ferndown, West Parley and Upton - for whom the sites were closer than alternatives in Wimborne, Wareham or Christchurch.

Action groups protested against the move, and the Daily Echo issued a plea of our own: "For goodness sake sort it out."

But in a report going before cabinet today, Dorset county councillors are advised not to meet the £850,000 cost of re-opening the tips to residents outside Bournemouth and Poole.

They say residents from Bournemouth use their site in Wilverley Road and an agenda to go before councillors concludes: "Any arrangement with the borough should reflect this situation.

"Dorset has always operated these sites on the premise that householders are welcome wherever they may come from."

It highlights cross-boundary use elsewhere in the county with Verwood residents using the Hampshire site at Somerley, Wiltshire residents using a site in Shaftesbury and Southbourne residents using the Christchurch facility.

The report concludes: "The level of cost cannot be justified as the inconvenience to the householders from West Parley and Ferndown displaced from the Millhams site is no greater than that experienced normally by many more residents elsewhere in the county such as Chickerell, Wool, Beaminster, Yetminster or Sturminster Newton."

And it raises concern that meeting costs for Bournemouth and Poole would set a precedent for other authorities to charge.

But today's meeting (February 2) will hear how the Brook Road recycling centre in Wimborne is in need of replacement at a cost of £1.6million.

The report says: "The Brook Road site is inadequate to carry the extra burden following the exclusion of Dorset residents from Millhams."

First published: February 2