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Committee Report - Environmental and Waste Crime Enforcement Review
Meeting: 07/02/2024 - Cabinet (Item 127)
Additional documents:
- Appendix 1 - Report of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Environmental and Waste Crime Review, item 127
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Minutes:
The Vice Chairman of Overview and Scrutiny presented the report and stated that a lot of cross-party work had gone into it asking the Cabinet to approve the recommendations.
The Cabinet accepted the report and the Leader stated that a response would be given in due course.
RESOLVED: That
1.
The report of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee be
received; and
2. A substantive response to the report be provided via the completion of the SCRAIP report.
Meeting: 23/01/2024 - Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Item 62)
62 Committee Report - Environmental and Waste Crime Enforcement Review PDF 140 KB
Additional documents:
Minutes:
The Principal Democratic Services Officer introduced the report and stated that the changes requested at the previous meeting had been implemented, with the Committee asked to approve the report with any further amendments if required.
The Committee felt that recommendation 1 should be amended to specifically reference successful enforcement action taken by the Council and its partner organisations, and that the Council’s stance on being willing and able to take appropriate enforcement action should be included in the report. The latter would be included in the introductory information of the Recommended Actions.
RESOLVED:That the report be agreed for submission to the Cabinet, subject to:
- Recommendation 1 being amended to read:
To produce further communications via assorted media in respect of successful enforcement action taken by the Council and its partner organisations, including…’; and
- The
inclusion of the following wording in the introductory information
of the ‘Recommended Actions and Intended Outcomes’
section:
It is important to highlight the Council’s proactive stance in being willing and able to take the appropriate enforcement action where breaches occur.
Note: Councillor Cannon arrived at 6.42 p.m. and had no declarations of disclosures or lobbying.