Waste and Street Scene

·             Work towards the 60% recycling target:

-          Information for residents – bin lid stickers

-          Improvement of bulky collection services to enable greater reuse and recycling of unwanted items

-          Improvement to recycling services for those living in apartments or flats to include weekly food waste collections

·           Find a new way to measure local street scene standards including the use of Ward Walks

·           Introduce mobile technology to enable customer street cleansing requests to be dealt with quickly and efficiently by frontline operatives

·           Provide new uniform for frontline street cleansing and grounds maintenance staff

Bereavement Services

·           Implementation of the five year business plan to improve the quality and range of services

·           Trailing a café and florist at the crematorium

Environmental Enforcement

·           Improved outcomes on fly-tipping

·           Reductions in fly tipping.  Increased Enforcement action against fly capture 2014

·           Improved outcomes on dog fouling             

·           Increased penalty notices and prosecutions of offenders and reduce the numbers of strays

·           Take steps towards a great place

·           An annual plan setting out some strategic targets and obstacles to overcome to manage the perception that Maidstone is a Great Place to live (environmentally)             

Flooding

·      Hold a workshop to share the lessons learned from the winter floods and set out plans for the future

Maidstone town centre Community Toilet Scheme

·      Review of the scheme to see if it is still working and providing value for money

Licensing

·      Implementing the action plan that was agreed following the Local Government Association's peer review. 

·      This will include a review and recommendations on powers delegated to the Licensing Committees and officers

·      Actioning the recommendation to reduce from two Committees for Licensing to one 

Environmental Health

·      Ensuring the new MKIP shared service continues to provide an excellent service to businesses and residents in Maidstone.

·      Developing the performance indicators and work programme to enable this to be delivered and measured

·      Drafting a new Low Emission Strategy, which will contribute towards the overall carbon reduction in Maidstone,  for your adoption by March 2015 

Housing

·      Improving access to a range of housing and reducing the need for families to be placed into temporary accommodation 

·      Adopting the new Homelessness Strategy by August 2015

·      The Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document is commenced and released for consultation by March 2015

·      The review of the Housing Strategy commences January 2015

·      The council's new emergency placement accommodation and recently purchased apartments are ready for use and begin to provide homes for applicants on our housing register

·           The actions identified by the Business