Can I respond to Malcolm Loveday (‘Fly-tipping is endemic', Opinion, June 4, 2014).

Enfield Borough Council did close down the Carterhatch Lane recycling centre against massive opposition from local residents and the Labour Party as it was a Conservative administration who ran the council then. They even used the then-defunct QE2 Stadium as a waste centre not long after this was closed.

This stadium was brought back to full use under Labour and we have committed ourselves in this administration to having a new centre to replace Carterhatch Lane recycling centre.

The amount of flytipping has also dropped in Enfield in the last three years.

So Mr Loveday is right to point out it was the council who did close the recycling centre, but it was the party that lost in May and the worrying thing is that they have just appointed the person who closed Carterhatch Lane as their new leader, Cllr Terence Neville.

Cllr Chris Bond

Lab/Southbury ward, Cabinet member for environment and parks, Enfield Borough Council