Jubilee BH collections; Roadworks for Keynsham Recycling Hub (Pixash Lane); & ‘Money for Nothing’ TV show
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Bank Holiday Thursday 2nd June – Collections in Saltford
The Platinum Jubilee is around the corner! Remember B&NES Council’s collection crews and recycling centres will be operating over the bank holidays to help you recycle all you can. This includes 2nd June in Saltford for those who usually have collections on Thursdays. You can check when your collections are due to take place using the Collection Day Finder webpage. Please sort your recycling to help B&NES Council collection crews.
Recycling centres including the one at Pixash Lane in Keynsham are also open on the Bank Holidays. Plan your visit to B&NES Council’s recycling centres (they are open 8am- 3:45pm on bank holidays), please see the B&NES Council website at https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/find-recycling-centre
Roadworks for Keynsham Recycling Hub works
People are being advised of road works and traffic diversions in Keynsham as the next phase of work gets under way on the construction of a state-of-the art waste and recycling centre.
From June 6, there will be a period of up to six months, when essential highway and utility works will be carried out as part of the construction of the multi-million-pound Keynsham Recycling Hub.
From time to time, there will be closures, partial closures and diversions in place along Pixash Lane from the junction with the A4 Bath Road to the junction with Ashmead Road to allow a sequence of work to be carried out by local utility companies.
B&NES Council’s contractor, Farrans, will be carefully scheduling works to reduce the level of disruption to residents and motorists.
There will parking restrictions along a short stretch of Ashmead Road to ease traffic flows and access to Pixash Lane will be maintained for residents and businesses, who will be kept updated.
The latest updates on road closures can be found on One Network.
Visitors to the Pixash Recycling Centre are advised to use the signposted route via Broadmead Lane roundabout and Ashmead Road throughout this period.
From June 8, all access to the recycling centre will be via a new entrance on Pixash Lane, adjacent to the current entrance which will be closed to allow for the installation of a new electricity substation.
B&NES Council state that this will ensure residents can continue using the recycling facilities safely and easily until the new public Reuse and Recycling Centre opens later this year.
The new entrance and short stretch of road linking into the recycling centre, will be two-way, and used by the public and the council’s operational vehicles for entering and exiting the site.
Inside the site, traffic flow will be one way. Residents in cars and with trailers will drive clockwise to the recycling containers and leave via the new roadway and exit gates. These changes will create more queueing space for cars and trailers off the main highway and help to avoid congestion in Pixash Lane.
Recycling site staff will be on hand as usual to guide people to the correct containers and assist with recycling as much as possible.
The latest updates on the project can be found on the council website: https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/keynsham-recycling-hub/introduction
Interested residents and businesses can sign up to receive the Farrans newsletter: keynsham@farrans.com, which gives updates on the project.
Pixash Lane Recycling Centre (Keynsham) stars in new series of ‘Money for Nothing‘
Keynsham’s Pixash recycling centre at Pixash Lane will once again play a starring role in the new series of BBC One’s ‘Money for Nothing’ which launches next Monday 6 June.
Production company Friel Kean Films spent two weeks filming at Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Recycling Centre last summer, saving items and giving them a new lease of life by passing them onto talented artisans who transformed them into stylish and valuable pieces. The items were then sold making money for residents who had no idea there was cash to be made from what they were throwing away.
The Recycling Centre is a favoured location of the production team, who have regularly filmed at the site over the past three years. Previous items recovered from Keynsham and featured in the programme include an old writing bureau that once belonged to James Bond author Ian Fleming. It was subsequently turned into a cocktail cabinet.
B&NES Council Councillor David Wood, cabinet member for Neighbourhood Services, said: “One person’s trash is another’s treasure, and this really is a fantastic example of how unwanted items can be upcycled or repurposed with the use of a little imagination. Of course, taking to a recycling centre should always be a last resort and we’d encouraged people to offer reusable items first on freecycling networks.”
You can watch what happens to the saved items from Keynsham over the course of the new series of ‘Money for Nothing’ which starts on BBC One at 2.15pm on Monday 6 June.