RECOMMENDED that
1)
subject to a publicity and consultation
exercise to seek customer response on likely take up and viability
of the scheme before rolling out the service further; and further
report back to the Committee in due course,
Option D, as detailed at Paragraph 5.4 of the report, be the
preferred option for the future of the garden waste collection
service, namely:
‘Stop trial in East and
increase West trial to cover 10,000 properties (figures based on
10% take up)’ ; and
RESOLVED that
2) Members note the outcomes of the trial garden waste collection service to date, as detailed in the report.
(Members received a supplementary report which
detailed the Overview and Scrutiny Committee’s view that the
service should not proceed further.
Executive Committee Members did not support this view but did amend
Officers’ original recommendations, as now detailed
above.
The Committee indicated that, if take up was
likely to be less than 10%, the service would not be sustainable;
but if more than 10% could be achieved, options should be
considered for a wider roll-out to areas which might benefit from
the service.
It was agreed that the issue of further capital investment in
equipment / bins etc. should therefore await further Committee
decision. Similarly, in view of Members’ revised
recommendations, the possibility of sharing such a service with
Bromsgrove DC would now also be considered as part of a further
report.)