Issue - meetings

The Committee received a report from the Community Engagement and Enforcement Manager. 

The report outlined an overview of the council’s Streets and Open Spaces, Environmental Health and Shared Waste service activity in the Area Committee area over the past six months.  

The Committee discussed the following issues: 

        i.       Illegal fly-tipping at Cockerell Road. 

      ii.        Restrictions in place during the pandemic at the Milton Recycling Centre. and impact on waste collections / fly tipping.  

    iii.        Asked about the success of fly tipping enforcement. 

    iv.       Redeployable CCTV cameras at persistent fly tipping hotspots. 

      v.       Community clean up days in the north area. 

    vi.       Feedback to those who reported incidences of fly tipping. 

In response to Members’ questions the Community Engagement and Enforcement Manager said the following: 

        i.       Recognised the restrictions at Milton Recycling Centre impacted on residents’ ability to undertake lawful disposal.  Hoped that since restrictions at the Recycling Centre had been removed that this may reduce the incidence of fly-tipping.  

      ii.        It was difficult to measure success with enforcement. It depended whether there was evidence to be able to pursue an enforcement case. Sometimes witnesses were not willing to come forward if the offence involved a neighbour and they did not want to attend court. A significant number of people were diverted from going to court and were issued fixed penalty notices. Some offences were genuine mistakes and people were issued education notices.   

    iii.        An application could be made for a redeployable CCTV camera at the persistent fly tipping hotspot on Cockerell Road. Noted that there could be a long waiting list for the cameras with other Departments who also dealt with anti-social behaviour incidents, or that an application could be rejected.

    iv.       A community clean-up day was booked in East Chesterton, at Ashfield Road, in the summer. The last one was carried out in October. 

      v.       An assessment was carried out for each fly tipping report. It may be investigated by the Enforcement Team, or it may be cleared up by the Operations Team. Fly tipped areas were aimed to be cleared within 5 days unless the waste was hazardous and then it would be cleared up sooner.