Agenda and minutes

Neighbourhood Standards Manager and Streetpride Community Delivery Manager to report.

 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmbills/011/en/05011x--.htm    and

http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/regulat/ria/2004/cleanneighbourenv-bill.pdf

-           to note the report and the resource implications of the Bill be considered by Corporate Management Team with a further report to be made to the Cabinet Members for Housing & Environmental Services and Economic & Development Services on enactment of the Bill.

The Neighbourhood Standards Manager and Streetpride Community Delivery Manager presented a joint report on the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill which would play a key role in the Government’s plan to create cleaner, safer and greener communities.

It dealt with many of the problems affecting the quality of the local environment which formed part of a continuum of anti-social behaviour, vandalism, disorder and levels of crime.  It also provided local authorities, parish and community councils and the Environment Agency with more effective powers and tools to tackle poor environmental quality and anti-social behaviour.

The Bill contained a wide range of 31 measures under 10 parts as follows:-

Part 1: Crime and Disorder

-              Extended the objectives of the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships to take account of enviro-crime

-              Gave local authorities new more effective powers to gate alleyways on public rights of way affected by anti-social behaviour

Part 2: Vehicles

-              Gave local authorities the power to remove abandoned cars from the streets immediately

-              Created 2 new offences to help local authorities deal with nuisance parking, offering for sale 2 or more vehicles or repairing a vehicle on the road as part of a business

Part 3: Litter and Refuse

-              Extended the litter offences to dropping litter on all types of land including “aquatic environments”

-              New powers (Litter Clearing Notices) to require businesses and individuals to clear litter from their land

-              Made failure to comply with Street Litter Control Notices a direct offence enforceable through fixed penalty notices

-              Extended controls on distribution of free literature to local authorities outside London and Newcastle

-              Confirmed that cigarette butts and discarded chewing gum were litter

Part 4: Graffiti and Other Defacement

-              Extended Graffiti Removal Notices to cover flyposting

-              Enforcement of the sale of aerosol paints to children

-              Strengthened the legislation to make it harder for beneficiaries of flyposting to evade prosecution

-              Extended powers to remove and recover costs for unlawful advertisements

Part 5: Waste on Land

-              Amended provisions for dealing with flytipping

-              Powers to issue and keep fixed penalties for failing to produce Waste Transfer Notes

-              Introduction of a more effective system for stop, search and seizure of vehicles thought to be involved in flytipping

-              New provision covering the waste duty of care and the registration of waste carriers

-              Introduced a new requirement for site waste management plans for construction and demolition projects

-              Repealed the divestment provisions for waste disposal functions to provide greater flexibility for local authorities to deliver waste management services in the most sustainable way

-              Reformed the recycling credits scheme to provide increased local flexibility to incentivise more sustainable waste management

-              Powers to issue and keep fixed penalties to waste carriers for failing to produce registration details

-              Introduction of fixed penalties for waste left out on streets

-              Amendment to ASB Act 2003 on powers of investigation

Part 6:  Dogs

-              Deregulation of the Dog Bye-law System

-              Gave authorities  ...  view the full minutes text for item 1.