I READ B Wade’s letter about the recycling depot on Canal Road with interest. I too took soil waste to the site on a number of occasions last week.

Each time there was a queue, sometimes of more than 10 cars, waiting along the centre of Canal Road to access the site.

A backlog of vehicles, including heavy lorries and buses, was forced to wait until those cars could cross the oncoming traffic to enter the site.

Each time I was approaching from the Wickes’s end of Canal Road and I also had to queue but with less hindrance to other traffic.

This brought its own problems as, on one occasion at least, there was an incident of “recycling rage” when an occupant of one of the cars queueing down the centre of the road became incensed because traffic from the Wickes’s end was able to, in effect, queue jump.

The one-way system in the depot doesn’t help, especially if you only want to dump soil and rubble, but I can understand why it was introduced.

Neither does the inconsiderate parking or stopping of vehicles unloading.

I witnessed, among other things, a car parked over two spaces (the lady in front of me got out to remonstrate and asked the driver to reposition his car), a car driven down to the soil skips and parked up and left there, and a man with a trailer driving it between two skips to facilitate unloading for him but preventing anyone else using the one side of the skip.

Both the council and Hills need to reassess the access to the site especially now as I suspect demand is higher on the five days it is now open.

Liz Corfield, Staverton