Issue - meetings

With the assistance of a report by the Head of Environment and Transport to note the award of capital funding in the latest round of DEFRA recycling challenge fund and the service improvements that will be delivered with this funding.

Noted the securing of £1.8 million of grant funding from the Government’s Recycling Challenge Fund  and the introduction of wheeled bins for dry recyclables in the garden waste trial area (the cost to be met from the 2003/04 Government grant provision) and the revenue implications for the MTP. Also agreed to release the relevant funding in respect of the Garden Waste – District-Wide scheme in the MTP.

Further to Minute No. 03/106 and by way of a report by the Head of Environment and Transport (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book), the Cabinet were advised of the Council’s success in its bid for funding from the Government recycling challenge fund towards the capital cost of –

¨  the District-wide roll out of the green waste collection service;

¨  providing a third wheeled bin in the garden waste trial area for the collection of dry recyclables; and

¨  trialing the use of underground neighbourhood recycling bins.

Having discussed financial and other issues associated with securing a new arrangement for the disposal of dry recyclables with a Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) operated by Northampton Borough Council, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  (a)that the securing of £1.8 m of grant funding from the Government’s Recycling Challenge Fund be noted;

  (b)that the introduction of wheeled bins for dry recyclables in the garden waste trial area be noted and the cost met from the 2003/04 Government grant provision;

  (c)that the revenue implications for the MTP summarised in Section 4 of the report now submitted be noted;

  (d)that the relevant funding for Garden Waste referred to in MTP Scheme ref. 04/522 be released; and

  (e)that the reduced gate fees associated with the disposal of dry recyclables at the Northampton MRF be noted.