Agenda item

Report of the Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment

Recommendations:-

1.    That Cabinet approve the response to the recommendations as detailed in Appendix 2.

2.    That an update report is brought back to Improving Places Select Commission in six months time.

Consideration was given to the report which detailed how on 30th October, 2019, the Council received a petition from the Droppingwell Action Group calling on the Authority to take enforcement action in respect of the Grange Landfill Site.

As the petition met the threshold for consideration by the Overview and Scrutiny Management Board, a meeting was held on 28th January, 2020 to receive representations from the lead petitioner and also heard from the Cabinet Member for Waste, Roads and Community Safety, officers and representatives of the Environment Agency in respect of the site.

The Council was still opposed to the opening of this tip and would continue to try to look at every avenue possible.  The Cabinet response had looked at the recommendations and some of the actions have already been completed, including information being sent through to the Environment Agency.

It was concerning how this tip could operate under a 1958 planning permission without some of the safeguards in place for a site of this nature.  The Council was not ruling out any potential legal action in the future, but would continually review information being received and take action if this was viable. 

The Overview and Scrutiny Management Board made eleven recommendations within this report for consideration by Cabinet.

Resolved:-

(1)  That the response to the recommendations as detailed in Appendix 2 be approved.

(2)  That an update report be brought back to Improving Places Select Commission in six months time.