Petition Update: Come to Full Council on Tuesday 18th June!

Thank you for signing and supporting this petition — now we need your help again.

We’ll be presenting this petition at the Full Council meeting on Tuesday 18th June at 7:30pm. This is your chance to stand with us and show councillors that residents still strongly oppose the proposed HWRC site.

What We’re Asking the Council To Do:

→ Pause the process.
→ Explore the alternatives.
→ Start a fresh consultation and give people a voice in a decision that affects their everyday lives. 

Why attend?
Because your presence matters. When residents show up, councillors take notice. If the public gallery is full, it sends a clear message: we care, we’re watching, and we expect better.

Even if you don’t speak, just being there is powerful.

🕢 The public section will be short— it starts at 7.30pm and should be finished by 8:00pm.

Date: Wednesday, 18th June 
📍 Location: Milton Keynes Council Offices, Civic, CMK

We hope to see as many of you there as possible. Please bring your friends, neighbours, and loved ones — let’s show up and be heard

Thank you!!

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Residents of Tattenhoe – both current and future – your neighbourhood is under threat. The Council’s plan to acquire sites in Snelshall (on Anderson Gate between Steinbeck Crescent and Snelshall Street) for a new waste recycling centre. It’s a decision that will directly affect everyone. Families, schoolchildren, and community members will soon be living right next door to a household waste recycling centre that could lead to increased traffic, odours, and disruptive noise. Local schools and neighbourhoods are at risk of degraded quality of life and falling property values.

Waste sites: Bad Neighbours

This waste site will be larger than the three currently running, combined. You are also expected to shoulder the burden as future construction relies on capital receipts and tariff allocations.

With additional traffic expected not only from this site but also from the Salden Chase, Shenley Park, and Tattenhoe Park developments, safety and daily convenience will be compromised.

We must also question why a larger, no-cost site that was once planned for MK East was set aside. According to the council papers, suitable sites for Household Waste Recycling Centres have always been hard to come by—the Council itself labels a waste site as a “bad neighbour.”

Residents must act now to stop this

With Milton Keynes City Council moving ahead with their vision for these super sites, and delegating authority to the Director for Environment and Property to negotiate and complete the acquisition of the sites, we need to step up now and ask them to reconsider their decision. 

We have a long history of having our voices ignored in planning consultations, as we saw in the recent Save the Kingsmead Green campaign and the Temple application in Tattenhoe. 

Cllr Manish Verma and I, Cllr Shazna Muzammil, have demanded that the decision to build a new waste site in Snelshall Street be called in for further scrutiny—and residents have done the same.

Join us at the Council Chamber on March 5th at 6pm at:
Civic, 1 Saxon Gate East, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3EJ

Please sign this petition and, more importantly, attend the meeting. Your collective voice can hold the Council accountable and force them to reconsider a decision that jeopardises your family's future.

All the papers are available here for you to read: 

The Future Approach and Provision of Services for Recycling and Reuse Centres

Don't forget to read Annex A and Annex D