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Item 19/5 referred from Street Scene and Environment Services Advisory Board minutes of 11 February 2019

(Item SSE 19/5 referred from Street Scene and Environment Services Advisory Board minutes of 11 February 2019)

Consideration of recommendations to the Cabinet from the Street Scene and Environment Services Advisory Board of 11 February 2019.

The Cabinet resolved that:

The recommendations of the Street Scene and Environment Services Advisory Board be approved as follows:

(1)             the Council’s revised charge for Fixed Penalty Notices for littering offences be set at £100 from 1 April 2019;

(2)             a revised early payment charge (within 10 days) for Fixed Penalty Notices for littering offence be set at £65 from 1 April 2019; and

(3)             the proposed approach to updating existing signage, as set out a paragraph 1.3.3 of the report, be approved. 

The report advises on the recently amended limits for Fixed Penalty Notices for littering following last year's review by Central Government and subsequent legislation.

Following the introduction of new legislation under The Environmental Offences (Fixed Penalties)(England) Regulations 2017 which came into force in April 2018, the report of the Director of Street Scene, Leisure and Technical Services set out details of the amended limits for Fixed Penalty Notices for Littering.

RECOMMENDED:  That

(1)          the Council’s revised charge for Fixed Penalty Notices for littering offences be set at £100 from 1 April 2019;

(2)          a revised early payment charge (within 10 days) for Fixed Penalty Notices for littering offence be set at £65 from 1 April 2019; and

(3)          the proposed approach to updating existing signage, as set out a paragraph 1.3.3 of the report, be approved. 

*Referred to Cabinet