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Decision details

Collection of Garden Waste: Skip Service

Decision Maker: Services Portfolio Holder Meeting

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

An annual review to consider the continuation of extending garden waste recycling to those properties that currently do not benefit from a kerbside collection.

Decision:

RESOLVED that:

1.            A garden waste skip service continues to be provided to those eligible villages, namely, Threlkeld, Bampton, Skirwith, Mungrisdale, Glenridding, Pooley Bridge, Milburn,, Knock, Dufton, Murton, Hilton, Great Asby, Skelton, Ravenstonedale, Nateby and Warcop which are not served by a kerbside or an alternative garden waste scheme.

2.            Ivegill, Calthwaite and Soulby area also eligible villages should any of those parishes request the service.

Reasons for the decision:

To ensure the continuation of the garden waste skip services for properties that do not benefit from any type of garden waste service, which they had in the past.

Alternative options considered:

As yet no other option has been considered, however the delivery of the Garden Waste Collection Service does form part of a major review taking place on Waste, Recycling and Street Cleansing, for post 31 March 2021.

Relevant Overview and Scrutiny Committee:

Overview and Scrutiny Committee

Report author: Jane Langston

Publication date: 14/01/2021

Date of decision: 12/01/2021

Decided at meeting: 12/01/2021 - Services Portfolio Holder Meeting

Effective from: 22/01/2021

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