People living in Bollington will be able to use the mobile tip service proposed by Cheshire East once every 42 years if it operates the way it has been trialled, a resident claimed.

Greg Lisle was one of many objectors who turned up at yesterday's (Thursday) meeting of the environment and communities committee to oppose plans to close the Bollington tip permanently.

And he told of the chaos at the mobile tip the council set up after it 'temporarily' closed the HWRC in August.

Mr Lisle said there were a maximum of 16 slots available every month and 'bearing in mind Bollington has almost 2,000 users a week, Bollington residents should be able to get a slot once every 42 years'.

Objectors at yesterday's meeting called for Cheshire East to work with the town council so it could run the tip, possibly as a joint service with Poynton.

Cheshire East had earlier this year gone cap-in-hand to Bollington Town Council asking for £59,400 to keep the HWRC open until April 2025. It had asked Poynton Town Council for £77,000.

Both had to decline because their budgets had been set well before the request.

But both town councils have said they will work with Cheshire East or possibly run the tips themselves in future.

Cllr Judy Snowball (Lab) speaking in her role as a Bollington town councillor, said: "Bollington Town Council is determined to do everything reasonably within its power to support the HWRC remaining open to all residents who wish to use."

She said the town council had already agreed to pay £43,000 a year to retain its free car park at Pool Bank and £67,000 to retain its library services.

Cllr Ken Edwards (Bollington, Lab), implored: "I ask you to give communities a chance to save a vital service.

"Town and parish councillors can raise precepts to support the provision of these services."

Poynton town councillor Laurence Clarke branded the Cheshire East report 'a disgrace'.

"Everything we predicted following the ['temporary'] closure of the Poynton and Bollington waste sites has come true," he said.

"More flytipping, which has to be cleared at public expense; more traffic on the roads, with queues outside Macclesfield tip on Congleton Road; less recycling."

He asked the committee to vote to 'engage properly and honestly' with both town councils and be open about costs.

And he was scathing of the council's claim it would take Poynton residents under 20 minutes to drive to Macclesfield tip.

Cllr Mike Sewart (Poynton, Con) agreed, saying it took him 31 minutes from Poynton and another 15 could be added for a Disley resident.

Cllr Sewart attacked the council for claiming earlier in the year the sites at Middlewich, Poynton and Bollington would be closed 'temporarily'.

"Was it double speak or forked tongues, it's certainly not the truth," he said.

Cheshire East officers dismissed the idea at yesterday's meeting that town councils could run the tips, saying CEC would still have to have overall control.

Cllr Janet Clowes (Wybunbury, Con) said: "So in realistic terms was it ever really an option for parish and town councils to take on responsibility for these centres?"

She later criticised Cheshire East for raising the expectations of local communities over this.

Cheshire East Council needs to save £100m over the next four-year period.

Councillors voted by eight to five yesterday to permanently close the HWRCs at Middlewich, Poynton and Bollington, leaving just Crewe, Knutsford, Macclesfield and Alsager tips open in the borough.