RECYCLING in Bordon could soon be entering a "third age" as residents look set to get another dustbin.

Just as the town has got to grips with the two-bin system of alternate weekly collection a third bin could be thrown into the equation.

Project Integra, the body behind Hampshire's recycling programme, is planning to start kerbside glass collection trials in Hart and Rushmoor this autumn in a bid to build on recent recycling successes.

If successful, the scheme will be rolled out across the rest of the county.

Theinitiative will mean that residents will have three bins in future - one for rubbish, one for recyclables and one for glass.

But as well as the logistical problems of introducing another kerbside collection, the initiative is causing a bit of a headache for district planners: Where are residents going to put three 240-litre bins?

East Hampshire District Council's environment and countryside panel has already discussed the issue and was told that with new government guidelines on planning, the density of new housing will get higher.

Councillors were told that more and more terraced housing and flats were likely to be built and adequate refuse storage facilities would be an important planning consideration.

As chairman of north planning committee and the cabinet member responsible for recycling, Patrick Burridge is someone who views the problem from both sides.

"The concept of leaving bins in the front garden is unacceptable," he said.

He added that developers may have to look to the past and go back to terraced houses with alleyway access to back gardens.

"With small private drives to four or five homes where everyone has to wheel bins to the road, there is going to be five wheelie bins there. There has to be space for five wheelie bins."

East Hampshire District Council is set to issue a guidance note on the issue of bin storage to developers.