Decision details

Date of Decision:

26^th June 2025

Title:

Waste Service Route Optimisation

Decision Maker:

(Including Job Title)

Sam Barstow

Assistant Director

Community Safety and Street Scene

Details of Specific Delegation

or

Delegation contained in the relevant Sub-Scheme of Delegation.

Sub Scheme of Delegation - Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment

See pages 5, 6 & 7 for full text.

[Assistant Directors may] Each to act in relation to matters within their remit unless absent in which case any other Assistant Director may act

7. Other functions

Any function not otherwise reserved to the full Council, the Cabinet, a committee of the Cabinet, a member of the Cabinet, a joint committee discharging executive functions or another local authority, relevant to the Assistant Director’s portfolio.

Decision:

To confirm that officers carry out an operational reroute of the Waste Collection service to ensure the efficient and effective collection and disposal of Waste and Recycling.

Reasons for the Decision:

To ensure that the Council meets its legal obligations to ensure that the waste collection service is operated in an efficient and effective way.

Details of alternative options considered and rejected:

Considerations have included route analysis and mapping of 4 day collection routes.  After considering the implication of the 4 day options and the requirements to reroute collections and change collection days to over 85% of residents, this was discounted.

The focused 5-day route optimisation work has been identified as the most efficient model of refuse collection after taking into account all known route constraints and the results of the 4 day analysis.  Furthermore, the report provided by Bartec in the Autumn of 2024 demonstrated that there were no significant savings to be gained through changing to a four-day model.  The service began to develop the detailed routing required to enact the 5-day optimised model with a potential go live date of Autumn/Winter 2025. The 5-day modelling has provided opportunity to deliver savings and a figure of £500k was committed to in the 2025/26 budget.  There are also potential Carbon reductions available totalling circa ca. 80 tCO2e per annum. 

The recommendation therefore confirms that officers carry out an operational reroute of the Waste Collection service over 5 days to ensure the efficient and effective collection and disposal of Waste and Recycling.

Conflicts of interest declared by any Cabinet Member consulted by the decision maker which relates to the decision:

None.

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

N/A

Conflicts of interest declared by the Decision Maker if they sit as a Cabinet appointed representative to an outside body which relates to the decision:

None known.

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

N/A

Reports or parts of reports considered

Waste Service Route Optimisation Report, 23^rd June 2025