Agenda and draft minutes

At this point, Members are asked to declare any personal or prejudicial interests they may have in the business on this agenda.

Members were invited to declare at this point in the meeting any personal or prejudicial interests they might have in the business on the agenda.  No Members declared any interests.

To approve and sign the minutes of the last meeting of the Commercial Services Scrutiny Board held on 7 March 2006.

RESOLVED:             That the minutes of the Commercial Services Scrutiny Board meeting held on 7 March 2006 be approved and signed as a correct record.

At this point in the meeting members of the public who have registered their wish to speak regarding an item on the agenda or an issue within the Board’s remit can do so. Anyone who wishes to register or requires further information is requested to contact the Democracy Officer on the contact details listed at the foot of this agenda. The deadline for registering is Friday 15 September 2006 at 10am.

It was reported that there had been no registrations to speak at the meeting under the Council’s Public Participation Scheme

This final report presents Members with information on their scrutiny of methods to remove larger items from the waste stream and encourage a greater ethos of recycling and re-use.

Members considered a draft final report of the Sub-Committee on the removal of bulky items from the waste stream, based on the work of the former Commercial Services Scrutiny Board.

The report outlined the main findings from the work carried out and detailed the recommendations based on the resulting proposals.

Members agreed to the following changes to the final report:

·         In regard to recommendation 1 and throughout the report, that ‘Eco Depot site’ be replaced with ‘Hazel Court and surrounding areas’.  

·         A definition of ‘spatial’ be included as a footnote at the bottom of the summary of recommendations sheet.

Members expressed concern that the report lacked a summary of implications of the recommendations which made it difficult for them to give their final approval to the document without this important information.  The Director of Neighbourhood Services confirmed that the information would become available following the planned service area review. Members expressed their belief that all future draft final scrutiny reports should include a list of implications prior to consideration at the final meeting.

Members thanked Officers for their work in the preparation of this report. Consideration was then given to the summary of recommendations as detailed in Annex A.

RESOLVED:    i) That the report be revised as agreed above, and endorsed as reflecting the work of the Sub Committee

ii)            That following the amendments as agreed above, the recommendations as listed on page 9 of the report be approved

iii)          That the work currently being planned by the Director of Neighbourhood Services be noted

iv)          That the research and findings of the review be incorporated into the Service Review being carried out by the Director of Neighbourhood Services.