Blog2025 ≫ The council want me to pay to go to the tip

I just made a booking for the recycling centre, got some garden waste to get rid of, and they want me to pay £10 on arrival! It's for non residents they say. I am a resident and we gave our address when we made the booking. Clare made the first booking, and of course I blamed her for doing it wrong, but I just made a second booking and it did the wrong thing again. I blame the new loony council. How can they have fouled things up so quickly??

As the waste does not originate from within the Kent administrative area, a £10 cross-border fee will be payable on arrival (card payments only). Please see our cross border policy for more information.

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Paul Clarkeʼs blog - I live in Hythe in Kent. Married + father to 2, I am a full-stack web engineer, and I do javascript / nodejs, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubbing, running, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.

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