We have to ‘click before we tip’ now.

Ours changed during Covid too and never went back. It’s a pain having to schedule everything, I agree

Our council is introducing this later this year.
As long as they block out times when the skips are being replaced with empty ones I don't mind.
Used to piss me off when they regularly did this work either within the 1st hour of opening or in the last hour before closing meaning you were sat for 30 mins whilst they closed off the area

We have to pre-register our car registration number to stop people from neighbouring counties using the facilities. They have plate recognition cameras on the gate and turn people away if they aren't "local". We still have to queue at busy times though.

Christmas and new year slots to book at our tip are like golddust. But otherwise ours are ok

Ours has had this since covid, and it's great - means there's always room in the different skips and no queue.

You can book for within the same hour if you want to, and if you are doing multiple runs you can book again as soon as you've left the tip.

Ours has been like this since 2020.

I wouldn't mind because when it works it's fine...but...

The turning for the tip is on a nasty bend on in a main road. There's nowhere to queue, which is why the booking system is helpful. But they randomly close the whole tip for an hour every few days to swap bins or something (?), but don't block that time out or cancel anyone's existing bookings. So dozens of people still turn up but can't get in, the queue on the main road is worse than ever when this happens, and there's nowhere to turn round either. It's really dangerous.

We have had this for a long time and you can’t get an ‘on the day’ slot can only book for the following day/ week

@clickthat are you in York (we are and I know booking tip visits is coming in soon with booking from today). Local feeling on it is that not having both local tips closed on Wednesdays hasn’t helped the traffic issues!

Been since covid here. Now the main tip is closed for ‘regeneration’ so it’s bloody impossible to get an appt in the two remaining smaller ones.

We’ve had it ages and it’s much better than before

It's been like this since COVID for us. We don't mind booking and it means we don't have the wait.
The annoying part is that we have too book days in advance, I think our council closes the slots quite early. If we could still book 48h in advance that would be great, but usually it's at least a week.

Ours supposedly you can't go more than once a day but they don't register anything so more trips are possible. Absolutely essential to do more if you have just moved or are planning a move. My DH keeps an old (8 years?) water bill in the car as they want that or a driver's licence to prove you're local. I might understand a booking system on the weekends or bank holidays but during the week it's rarely busy maybe one car ahead to be checked in at most.

I think it's good, you can go and not find yourself stuck in a long queue with a car full of rubbish. Ours is pretty easy to book so not much hassle and can save a lot of time.

We've had it since 2020. It's an absolute PITA, and we still have enormous queues because they don't block out times for the team to use the telehandler etc.

Also gets fully booked up on a BH weekend.

Gah.

Ours has been like this since Covid and it's brilliant! The queues at times were horrendous- right out onto a main road which blocked it for anyone else who needed to go by.And you could sit there for absolutely ages.
Book a slot now and you're in and out!

with my local tip you can turn up any time, but your car's reg has to be registered (not that they check very often).

Ours is also since Covid. Really bloody annoying!

Ours closes for 2 days in the week!

Our council has just stopped this and now we can just go whenever again.

I think it was the huge increase in fly tipping that did it...

I'm in Somerset, we have to book in advance, it was introduced after Covid.
I think there's a limit of 3 visits a week.

It's OK, but sometimes it's annoying not to be able to just go when I've got someone around to help me, or when it's not raining!

Our council has this. It’s so much better than turning up and there being a long queue. And it’s rare that we can’t get an on the day booking, even on weekends. I see no downsides to this system.

I think this would happen to people that live over the border near us who probably use our tip now, it will be further for them to go if you had to book only from your council

What utter stupid bureaucracy. They are contributing directly to fuel emissions by doing this as you won't be the only person impacted.

One tip in my local authority area still have a booking system, which they introduced in Covid, but they don't bat an eye if you are early and there is space (it's a reasonably quiet one - never had more than 5 minutes to queue before). No others do though. Tend to not use the one I need to book for, choosing my closest one (but in a different local authority area) most of the time.

glad we aren't restricted for number of trips either. Emptied my late aunts house last year and was a very regular visitor to that tip. Often several times per day when I was through

We’ve had it since Covid. I understand why they want the car registration but don’t know why they require your full name, postcode and house number. You also have to declare at the time of booking if there’s any DIY waste.