Herts County Council will shut the Tringford Road Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) once the village amenity opens in April 2008.

However, chiefs at Bucks County Council, which will run the new site, have not yet decided whether Tring residents, who live within Herts, will be allowed to use the green facilities.

A spokesman for the Bucks council said: "It has not been fully decided. The problem we have is we are facing landfill tax allowances so if we end up taking out of county rubbish we might face fines because we go over our landfill limit."

She said the subject is up for discussion and added: "We have to decide whether it is fair for them (Herts County Council) to save money at our expense."

Environment bosses will look at the predicted level of waste from Tring residents and whether it will affect the council's ability to meet rubbish allowances.

The Aston Clinton site will be the second closest recycling facility for Tring residents, after Berkhamsted, which is often busy with cars queuing to get in.

Herts County Council has decided to close the Tring site, which has had record levels of recycling, under a cost cutting review.

However, bosses gave the centre a stay of execution after residents requested that it should not close until the Aston Clinton centre is ready.

A spokesman for Herts County Council said: "The official decision to close the Tring HWRC is not as a result of the development of a new site at Aston Clinton but because of declining volumes of waste throughout the HWRC network.

"We also know that the Berkhamsted site has sufficient capacity to cope with waste from all Hertfordshire residents in the area, including Tring.

"Our surveys indicate that 50 per cent of users of the Tring site are from Buckinghamshire and our assumption is that once Aston Clinton is operational and Tring closes, the majority of Hertfordshire-based users will find the Berkhamsted HWRC to be an adequate alternative."


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