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Councils team up to share Bournemouth maintenance depot facilities

Bournemouth Council is working with the Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP) to deliver significant savings over the next ten years and beyond.

The DWP will move their Christchurch based staff and vehicles, to Bournemouth in order to share the borough’s maintenance depot in Southcote Road.The relocation of the DWP’s Christchurch operations to Bournemouth will allow Christchurch Borough Council to redevelop the Grange Road depot for the benefit of the local community

To help make this move possible Bournemouth has been awarded £262,000 from the Department for Communities and Local Government Transformation Challenge Award fund. The grant will be spent on making infrastructure changes to the depot needed to accommodate the DWP, who will then lease use of the facilities. A further £45,000 from existing Bournemouth Council budgets will be used to complete all the work.

The Transformation Challenge Award is intended to promote partnership working. The Council is already working in partnership with the DWP to create a local facility for processing recyclable materials from the Bournemouth and Dorset areas. A development of this project is the consolidation of the two depots, with the DWP moving into Southcote Road later this year.

It is estimated that cost savings to Bournemouth in excess of £500,000 can be achieved over ten years through a variety of efficiency and infrastructure improvements.

Councillor Michael Filer, Portfolio Holder for Transport, Cleansing and Waste, said “This award demonstrates the commitment to bringing forward new initiatives that will deliver real savings over the long term for both the Council and our partners. The funding will enable Southcote Road to use its entire site in an effective manner while offering logistical benefits to the DWP over their current location and improvement benefits to co-located commercial company Watsons CCS Ltd.”

Councillor Anthony Alford, Chair of the Dorset Waste Partnership Joint Committee, added “This funding provides the opportunity to make a big impact on our ways of working, delivering all the benefits associated with sharing a well equipped facility.I look forward to enjoying closer partnership working with Bournemouth into the future.”

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