significant increase in the number of cars able to queue onsite at peak times, has helped to reduce local traffic congestion.

The design also allows for a wide range of best practice features including, amongst other things, bollard demarcation and real time queuing information to be displayed on the WRWA website. A webcam is now up and running to enable residents to view the HWRC entrance ramp so they can assess the situation regarding queuing before visiting the site. A vehicle number plate recognition system is also operational which is designed to detect cars that use the site too frequently and highlight this to the site advisers who can monitor the types of waste being disposed of by the vehicle owners. This helps to prevent commercial waste operators using the site illegally. This system also records the vehicle details and has a database facility to enable Authority staff to monitor site usage.

Following the closure of the Cringle Dock HWRC the Authority carried out a review of the operation of the new Smugglers Way HWRC, particularly focussing on waste that is technically defined as industrial (such as tiles, windows, doors, timber and wooden flooring, bricks, rubble, paving, stones and hardcore, bathroom suites and fittings, fencing, sheds, kitchen units and fittings, soil, turf, etc). From 1st April 2013 this waste continues to be accepted at the HWRC free of charge from residents using cars, motorcycles, bicycles or on foot. However the revised arrangements now limit the free delivery of residents' waste in vans to that which most people would reasonably take with them when moving house and which could not reasonably be delivered in a car, e.g. large items of free standing furniture and white goods.

An example of the layout of the site is shown opposite.

We have set up two large bays for specific items that are intended for recycling or reuse (see Bay A and Bay B opposite). As well as general household waste containers, we have individual containers for a whole range of items that can be recycled including those shown.

The Bulk Bays for receiving source-segregated recyclables were moved to Cringle Dock in 2013 and therefore the Authority does not currently require the use of its area of land at Feathers Wharf, adjacent to Smugglers Way Transfer Station, for waste disposal purposes. It has been agreed that for the foreseeable future the land will be leased to a third party and, in February 2015, planning permission was granted by Wandsworth Council for a change of use to Storage of Construction Plant. The new tenant took up occupancy in autumn 2015. However further plans for the future use of the site are discussed in Section 8.