Liverpool City Council is planning a renewed approach to tackling litter, fly-tipping and related anti-social behaviour. A report to next week’s Council’s Cabinet suggests three significant changes, designed to increase environmental standards across the UK city. The three recommendations follow feedback from the Council’s residents’ survey, which called for greater action against fly-tipping and litter.
The recommendations include the creation of an Environment and Anti-social Behaviour Taskforce, which would bring separate teams together to perform enforcement activity. Secondly, the council will appoint a new external enforcement company, providing additional capacity to tackle litter, poorly managed business and household waste, and fly-tipping. The third suggestion is to raise the maximum level of fixed penalty notices to the highest level permitted by new legislation for fly-tipping, litter and environmental offences such as graffiti.
Liverpool City Council approved a £2.5m scheme in February, recruiting more environmental enforcement officers over the next year and the Council aims to deal with the minority of residents whose poor behaviour leads to littering and fly-tipping, having a negative impact on local communities, placing avoidable demands on its waste management services.
The new contractor will help the enforcement taskforce to become more effective in working across the city. To embed the new changes, the council will also streamline enforcement policies and has established a Joint Tasking and Co-ordinating Group to oversee the initiative. The group includes officers from Highways, Street Scene, Planning, Licensing & Regulatory Services, Private Sector Housing and City Watch. It meets weekly to tackle complex enforcement issues.
In addition to developing an anti-litter program with community groups and Keep Britain Tidy, Liverpool City Council also installed the largest network of subterranean superbins in the UK. This move is designed to help companies reduce bin bag-related litter in areas that cannot accommodate wheelie bins. The Council has also placed larger bins in many of the city’s major parks
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