Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendations.

The Cabinet Member for Public Protection, Waste and Recycling presented an update on the progress made within the waste collection service, six months after the service review. He provided a detailed update on current service performance explaining that that the number of missed collections had fallen to 80 for every 100,000 collections made each week. In addition to the recommendations within the Action Plans, the following changes had been made to the new service:-

• The service had been rolled out to all Flats in the County;
• A ‘Scatter’ round had been introduced to properties with difficult access points’ and
• Saturday collections had been piloted.

The Cabinet Member for Public Protection, Waste and Recycling also provided a detailed update on feedback received on the service together with the anticipated efficiencies for 2012/13. He said that the service had now stabilised and the staff and workforce were making great efforts to ensure that the service operated at the levels residents and Members would expect of it.

The Leader of the Council thanked the Cabinet Member for the detailed update and welcomed the continued collection of side waste.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That the progress made within the service since the service review in March, 2012 be noted; and

(b)       That the current arrangements at the Council’s Household Recycling Centres (HRC) sites remain at the current level, subject to a further report, once the impact of opening the proposed new Sandycroft HRC site and the information from the Welsh Government research project could be assessed.