Gateway Road Reuse and Recycling Centre is now closed.
The North London Waste Authority (NLWA), which runs the Gateway Road Reuse and Recycling Centre (RRC), is closing the site in November 2024.
Before we made a final decision, we ran a consultation to hear your views on the potential impacts of closing the site.
Please note: this consultation closed on 11 September, and on 30 September NLWA announced the closure of the Gateway Road site. The site will close on 4 November 2024. You can read more about this decision on our webpage on the closure of Gateway Road.
Frequently asked questions
Why was there a consultation on the proposal to close Gateway Road Reuse and Recycling Centre?
For a long period of time, reuse and recycling centres were the only option for residents to dispose of and recycle a number of material types and large amounts of waste. Since then, services have evolved, and in recent years the services available to residents have increased and improved significantly. This includes collections of a wider range of materials from the doorstep and alternative places to drop-off certain types of waste.
The financial pressure on north London boroughs and North London Waste Authority (NLWA) is continuing to increase as demands for our services grow and our budgets are continuing to be squeezed. To manage these pressures, NLWA needs to continually review the services we provide to ensure they meet the needs of residents at an affordable price.
We are therefore closing Gateway Road Reuse and Recycling Centre in Waltham Forest. The cost of operating Gateway Road is increasing by a significant amount, and as a result, we believe that closing the site is the right course of action which will enable NLWA to continue delivering services at great value to residents.
Before we made a decision on the future of Gateway Road, we wanted to hear residents’ views on how a proposed closure could impact them. To enable this, we ran a 6-week consultation, starting on 31 July and finishing on 11 September.
Questions included closed and open response fields to allow residents to share their views. We collected this information to inform our final decision on the future of the site.
The survey was available online, on paper and over the phone.
For all additional information on the decision to close this site, please visit our webpage on the closure of Gateway Road.