Issue - meetings

8.45 to 9.15 pm

The Committee received an Environmental Data Report from Wendy Young the Operations Manager (Community Engagement and Enforcement).

The Committee discussed the emerging priorities. The Committee welcomed the work completed in recent months.

The Committee made the following comments:

     i.        Suggested that lunch time litter from students at Campkin Road and surrounding areas continued to be a problem.

    ii.        Requested that the dog waste bin in Bramblesfields/Pippin Drive be relocated (alternative location to be agreed outside the meeting).

   iii.        Suggested that Officers could be asked to monitor Balfour Beatty barriers around street lamp and to right any that had been knocked down.

Councillor Manning questioned how the additional work was being delivered without additional funding and asked if there was data to support an improved performance. The Operations Manager stated that there had been some increase in staffing. However, the improvements had been achieved by increased autonomy and flexibility of workers and improvements to data recording. There was also increased flexibility regarding the location of bins: additional bins could be added and underused or problematic bins removed. 

The Committee

Resolved unanimously to:

Continue with the following priorities

1.   Enforcement patrols to tackle fly-tipping at Kingsway Flats and in communal archways and green areas at Minerva Way

2.   Enforcement joint working and patrols to deal with littering from students of Cambridge Regional College in the areas of Campkin Road and Nuns Way Recreation Ground and to work with the local business to address litter from their premises

3.   Early morning patrols for dog fouling on Kings Hedges (Pulley) Recreation Ground and at Logan’s Meadow.

4.   Enforcement patrols to address issues of littering in and around the Bermuda Terrace area and to follow up on intelligence received as a result of the mail drop to the area

5.   Enforcement patrols to address issues of fly tipping at public and neighbourhood recycling centres.

6.   Enforcement patrols to address issues of litter at the area of Green End Road junction with Milton Road (outside the Co-op and).

7.   Investigate littering in the green space between Cam Causeway and Fen Road

Add the following new priorities

8.   Park deep cleanse, to include removal of graffiti, flyposting, litter, dog fouling, vegetation cut back and sweeping at Cameron Road play area, Hazelwood and Molewood Close play areas, Pearl Close play area and Bateson Road play area.

9.   Evening patrols to address fires at Logan’s Meadow in evenings