IT is ironic that two articles should appear in the same edition of the Gazette (November 3), one regarding the ongoing battle to stop the closure of Martins Farm, the cutbacks at other sites, and the other on Tendring’s poor recycling rates.

To close Martins Farm is bureaucratic lunacy. They should be looking to make the site bigger.

As with the Clacton area, St Osyth is soon to be blighted with more homes. Where do all these people go with their rubbish? Rush Green? Ha ha. They are going to open an hour later and not open late in the few summer months. This is going to create a lot more flytipping, costing the ratepayers even more money, as well as blighting what countryside we have left.

Also, Rush Green Road is not a particularly safe road at the best of times, being very narrow, and often with traffic queuing to get in, while “mad brains” who can’t wait overtake on the wrong side of the road - an accident waiting to happen. Also, there is the carbon footprint of all the journeys to and from Rush Green.

Perhaps Essex County Council should look at some of their fat cat salaries first, instead of decimating the quality of life for its already hard-pressed residents.

H Bishop
Inglenook
Clacton