To receive an oral report from Wirral Council’s Lead Commissioner – Environment (Mike Cockburn).

Wirral Council’s Lead Commissioner –Environment Mike Cockburn gave a power point presentation on the Action Plan 2 June/July Waste & Environment Services

Driving the Council’s pledge forward

Highway, surveying tackling fly tipping

Land not owned by the Council these spots need to be tackled.

Now in year 2 same amount of resources allocated as year 1, income generated from prosecutions- Litter, Dog Fouling

Tackling private land/ land owners need support of the public to identify sites.

Untidy Land

This is a pain to the community, fly tipping ASBO’s significant chronic blighted which meet the threshold colleagues in Environmental Dept. of the 26 sites formal notice served 18 Land owner took satisfactory action, 5 sites regenerated ear marked for housing. Some sites ambiguous ownership will take action.

A picture of the flying tipping on a piece of land on Thurstaston Road

Councillor W smith asked could you identify anyone who had left the rubbish. No not this time. Now cleared and no more rubbish has appeared there is no access now working with the farmer who owns the land.

Improvement notice – a stake is put in the land if owner not known.

Continental Landscapes are the contractor; improvement better quality of life, sites improved much more desirable to prospectors. Ask for stakeholders, sign up to the Charter.

Questions 

Councillor D Mitchell- Last year Eastham Ferry frontage land belongs to Peel Holdings Wirral’s lease ran out. Need money to cut back the vegetation and litter dropt what is the threshold criteria?

Councillor C Muspratt 2 examples Land at Bebington High School thick bushes and bramble and members of the Church do a litter pick.

A41 Toll Bar Bromborough shops on the right derelict – everyone complains about the rats.

Councillor W Smith Litter comes from school pupils, footballers; Higher Bebington Road the wind funnels the litter down the road.

Councillor A Hodson 2 untidy sites Heswall Brimstage Road lay by opposite the Cottage Mouse; and Heswall shore boat yard, has fires on the beach leaves litter .old boats, paint cans.

Mark Craig New Ferry- build up in back yard got put forward last year as grot spot but not acted upon.

Shorefield Cliffs New Ferry Woods Shorefield litter pick with Asda on the cliff many years sofa’s motorbikes thrown down the cliffs, voluntary effort in 1989 climbed up the cliffs with bin bags and picked up the litter.

Community Reps will be included in the emails to be sent by the chair outlined the threshold / criteria.

The more people caught and prosecuted the more income generated to finance the scheme.

Resolved- That member note the report from Wirral Council’s Lead Commissioner.