WINCHESTER City Council’s efforts to recycle half of household waste by 2020 has hit a plateau, a meeting heard.

The council is currently recycling 38 per cent of waste.

Cllr Victoria Weston, portfolio holder for environment and transport, said that among the measures the council would take are kerbside collection of glass, and a separate kerbside collection of food waste.

Council leader Cllr George Beckett told the full council meeting that there were no plans to return to a weekly rubbish collection, ditched in favour of an alternate collection of recyclable and ordinary rubbish. Cllr Beckett said that would be more expensive and hit recycling efforts.

Plotting ahead A HAMPSHIRE village could soon have allotments for the first time in half a century.

Two possible sites are being considered to provide 18 plots for people in Barton Stacey to grow their own fruit and vegetables.

The idea is land will be given to the parish council as part of a development scheme and an allotments association set up to run it.

Council housing was built on the old allotments at Kings’ Elms, off Bullington Lane, about 50 years ago, according to parish councillor Wayne Wreglesworth.

Other initiatives being considered by the parish council as part of a ten-year plan include a new dual-purpose village hall/pavilion.