Issue - decisions
Pilot Scheme to increase enforcement activity for environmental crime
06/09/2018 - Pilot Scheme to increase enforcement activity for environmental crime
RESOLVED (unanimously) that the Cabinet agreed:
1) That the Group Manager for Neighbourhood Environmental Services, in consultation with the Cabinet member for Development and Neighbourhoods to enter in to a 12 month pilot scheme to increase the enforcement of environmental crime throughout the district with the following provision:
a) the contract is at zero cost to the council
b) the contract is flexible to include additional enforcement activity as deemed appropriate
c) the providers take a proportionate approach in accordance with the legislation
d) that education and awareness raising of the consequences of environmental crime are prioritised
e) that if successful, proposals for a more permanent arrangement are developed towards the end of the trial.