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Minutes:
The Committee
received a report from the Operations Manager – Community Engagement and
Enforcement.
The report
outlined an overview of City Council Refuse and Environment and Streets and
Open Spaces service activity relating to the geographical area served by the
East Area Committee. The report
identified the reactive and proactive service actions undertaken in the
previous quarter, including the requested priority targets, and reported back on
the recommended issues and associated actions. It also included key officer
contacts for the reporting of waste and refuse and public realm issues.
The following were suggestions for Members on what action could be
considered for priority within the East Area for the quarter of October to
December 2015. Additions were shown underlined.
Continuing priorities:
i.
Enforcement
patrols to tackle fly tipping at Ekin Road, Riverside
and St Matthews Estate
ii.
Early
morning, daytime and weekend patrols for dog fouling at the following
locations:
-
Romsey Recreation
Ground
-
Petersfield
Recreation Ground
-
Cannon
Green
-
St
Thomas’s Square and Road
-
Ravensworth
Garden play areas
-
Coldhams Common
-
Thorpe
Way play area
iii.
Enforcement
patrols to deal with the litter issues at Cambridge Leisure Park at Clifton
Road including liaison and educational visits with nearby schools and colleges.
iv.
Enforcement
work to tackle bins on streets in the Romsey and
Petersfield areas.
New suggested
priorities:
v.
Park
deep cleanse to include removal of graffiti, flyposting, litter, dog fouling,
vegetation cut back and sweeping at Jack Warren Green play area, Great Eastern
play area, Shenstone House play area and Ravensworth
Garden play area
The Committee
discussed the following issues:
i.
Litter bins had been requested in Wycliffe and
Brook Road.
ii.
Confirmed that the priorities were in addition to
the services usually undertaken by the Council.
iii.
Thanked Officers for the work undertaken at the
Abbey Road and Elizabeth Way roundabouts.
iv.
Dog bins had been requested in Romsey
ward and questioned why these could not be provided.
v.
Questioned the frequency that weeds were cleared.
vi.
Raised the issue of fly tipping in main walkways in
Petersfield.
In response to Members’ questions the Operations Manager – Community
Engagement and Enforcement said the following:
i.
An amount of work had been undertaken at the
Elizabeth Way roundabout through the Community Pay Back Team and the City
Council would be undertaking further work in the upcoming months.
ii.
Some of the locations proposed for dog bins in Romsey were not feasible locations.
iii.
The frequency that weeding was undertaken would be
passed to the relevant Operations Manager to respond to members.
ACTION: Operations
Manager to email frequency that weeding is undertaken to Members.
Following discussion, Members resolved (nem
con) to approve the continuing and new suggested priorities for action as
amended above.