Decision details

Wirral Smoke Control Area Consolidation and Expansion

Decision Maker: Tourism, Communities, Culture & Leisure Committee

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

This agenda item is to get approval from committee to consolidate the current 30 Smoke Control Orders to just 1 borough wide order including the two currently exempt wards of Clatterbridge and Bebington.

Decision:

Resolved: That

1.   the revocation of the existing Smoke Control Orders which affect the Council’s administrative area be approved, subject to such revocations (listed in schedule 1 of the draft order) being subject to formal consultation and confirmation by the Secretary of State; and

2.   the making of a single Smoke Control Order for the whole of the Council’s administrative area in accordance with the draft order set out in Appendix 1 to this report be approved, and also that such order be subject to formal consultation and confirmation by the Secretary of State;

3.  that any objections to the orders referred to in recommendations 1 and 2 be referred to a future meeting of this Committee.

Report author: Jennifer McKeown

Publication date: 08/03/2024

Date of decision: 07/03/2024

Decided at meeting: 07/03/2024 - Tourism, Communities, Culture & Leisure Committee

Effective from: 14/03/2024

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