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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.