Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Deputy Leader

Forward Plan Ref: 2015/064

Contact: Vicky Fletcher, Environment and Resource Efficiency Manager Tel: 07500121866

Report by Director for Environment & Economy (CA10).

In February 2014 budget savings of £350,000 to be met by 2017/18 were agreed from the Household Waste Recycling Centre budget.   This paper sets out the need for a strategy, the overriding principles on which it will be based and the timetable for agreement

A HWRC strategy is needed to:

- Ensure we have a sustainable network with sites appropriately located to serve the population

- Ensure sites are equipped to maximise recycling rates and manage the changing nature of waste accepted on site.

- Enable Oxfordshire County Council to seek contributions from developers to expand sites where new development will increase users

- Identify how the financial pressures are to be met

In order to allow adequate time to implement a strategy, yet still meet the savings requirements in the medium term financial plan (MTFP), it is proposed that funding from the withdrawal of Green Waste Credits is used both to fill the MTFP gap and provide investment funding to enable the implementation of the longer term strategy.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to

(a)            approve a public consultation on a HWRC strategy based on the principals in paragraphs 9 and 10; and

(b)            approve the withdrawal of the non-statutory Green Waste Credit payment from 1 April 2016.

Recommendations agreed.

In February 2014 budget savings of £350,000 to be met by 2017/18 were agreed from the Household Waste Recycling Centre budget. Cabinet considered a report that set out the need for a strategy, the overriding principles on which it will be based and the timetable for agreement

RESOLVED:           to

(a)            approve a public consultation on a HWRC strategy based on the principals in paragraphs 9 and 10; and

(b)            approve the withdrawal of the non-statutory Green Waste Credit payment from 1 April 2016.