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  1. Gloucestershire Recycles
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  3. Midweek closure days and seasonal opening hours

Midweek closure days and seasonal opening hours

Pyke Quarry HRC will be open 7 days a week from 19th August. The site will open on it’s normal Wednesday closure day until further notice. This is to help reduce the online queue for vehicle bookings and bring the waiting time closer in line with the our other recycling centres. All visits must still be pre booked online here. Social distancing measures remain in place, so the number of booking slots available remains limited.

2020 Holiday period

 

Open (10am-4pm)

Closed

Fri 10 Apr (Good Friday)

 All sites  

Mon 13 Apr (Easter Monday)

 All sites  

Fri 8 May (Early May Bank Hol / VE Day)

 All sites  

Mon 25 Jun (Spring Bank Hol)

 All sites  

Mon 31 Aug (Summer Bank Hol)

 All sites  

Thur 24 Dec (Christmas Eve)

 Pyke Quarry, Wingmoor Farm, Oak Quarry and Fosse Cross Hempsted

Fri 25 Dec (Christmas Day)

   All sites

Sat 26 Dec (Boxing Day)

   All sites

Sun 27 Dec

 All sites  

Mon 28 Dec

 All sites  

Tue 29 Dec

 Hempsted, Pyke Quarry and Wingmoor Farm Oak Quarry and Fosse Cross

Wed 30 Dec

 Hempsted, Oak Quarry and Fosse Cross Pyke Quarry and Wingmoor Farm
Thur 31 Dec

 

 Pyke Quarry, Wingmoor Farm, Oak Quarry and Fosse Cross Hempsted

Fri 1 Jan (New Years Day)

   All sites

Sat 2 Jan 2021

 All sites  

Sun 3 Jan 2021

 All sites  

 

From 28th October 2018 Gloucestershire County Council’s Household Recycling Centres (HRCs) will be closed one day mid-week, either on a Tuesday, a Wednesday or a Thursday and changing to seasonal opening hours.

 

Seasonal opening times (6 days per week):

27th October 2019 - Saturday 28th March 2020

Winter - 10am-4pm

Sunday 29th March 2020 - Saturday 24th October 2020

Summer - 9am-5pm

 

Site specific day closures:

On Tuesdays, Fosse Cross (Cirencester) and Oak Quarry (Coleford) will be closed.

On Wednesdays, Pyke Quarry (Horsley near Stroud) and Wingmoor Farm (Bishops Cleeve) will be closed.

On Thursdays, Hempsted (Gloucester) will be closed.

 

Please note all HRC's will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.

 

Why we are changing our opening hours:

As the evenings get colder and darker, the HRCs across the county receive almost 30 per cent less waste and recycling. In order to reflect this and save taxpayers money, HRCs change to seasonal opening hours and open six days a week.

 

The council collected data from recycling centres and this told us that midweek is the quieter period at our sites. Residents will have a reasonable alternative recycling centre with this closure pattern, by closing sites at opposite sides of the county. The new opening arrangements and how the sites are used will be monitored. The closure rota also means HRCs in the county will still be open on Bank Holiday Mondays and Good Friday, which are especially busy days at the sites. 

 

To find your nearest alternative site click here.

 

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