Issue - meetings

To enable Cabinet to give consideration to a recommendations made to it by the Service Development and Delivery Committee in respect of the above.

That the comment of the Environment Portfolio Holder be endorsed.

Cabinet was informed that, at the meeting of the Service Development and Delivery Committee (SDDC) held on 3 April 2017, Members had been informed about Essex County Council’s (ECC) proposed contribution to this Council’s clear-up costs by the Council’s Head of Environmental Services (John Fox) and Street Scene Officer (Jon Hamlet), in the event of increased incidents of fly tipping as a consequence of their recent policy change at recycling centres.

SDDC had been informed that, as of November 2016, ECC had changed the rules at recycle centres which had resulted in business waste being refused and restrictions put in place and that there had been concerns that, as a result of this, there would be an increase in fly tipping in the District.

SDDC had also been informed that, at many of the recycling centres in the District, businesses had been dumping their waste when they should have been taking it to a site specifically set aside for disposal of business waste and paying for it.

Councillor Talbot, the Portfolio Holder for the Environment, informed the Committee that there was a verbal agreement in place that ECC would pay the cost of clearing up an increase in fly tipping if it should occur.

The Council’s Street Scene Officer (Jon Hamlet) had informed SDDC that the Council had been monitoring the figures in relation to fly tipping and that at this early stage it was difficult to spot any differences in trend since the new rules had come into place. Mr Hamlet confirmed that the figures would be checked and monitored on a month-by-month basis.

The Committee had agreed that Cabinet be recommended to recognise that TDC’s Environmental Services Team had a good working relationship with ECC.

The Cabinet had before it the following comment of the Environment Portfolio Holder made in response to the recommendation of the Service Development and Delivery Committee (SDDC):

“SDDC’s comment is welcomed and duly noted.”

Having considered the recommendation of the Service Development and Delivery Committee and the comment of the Environment Portfolio Holder:

It was moved by Councillor Talbot, seconded by Councillor G V Guglielmi and:

RESOLVED that the comment of the Environment Portfolio Holder be endorsed.