Agenda item

Report of the Corporate Director Environment and the Chair of the District Enforcement Pilot Task Group.

The Corporate Director Environment and Chair of the District Enforcement Pilot Task Group submitted a report detailing the work of the Task Group.

Decisions

Speaking on behalf of Cabinet, Councillor Bridge confirmed that, in respect of Recommendation 3.1, the suggested extension of the current agreement with District Enforcement had already been approved and implemented and in response to Recommendation 3.2, asserted that all offences should be dealt with consistently and without any additional provision to issue warnings for certain offences. With regard to Recommendation 3.3, he said that Cabinet considered that the suggested enforcement action against under 18 year olds would be disproportionate and could compromise officers.

Cabinet agreed that

·         the current programme for educating the young people of the borough on the harmful impact of littering be supported and endorsed (Recommendation 3.4) and that one of the advantages of having District Enforcement was that it enabled the council to go into schools to do this.

·         it was a priority of the council’s new Communications Plan to continue to interact, inform and educate the residents of Wyre (Recommendation 3.5)

Cabinet thanked Cllr Ingham and the District Enforcement Pilot Task Group for their hard work.