Litter & Fly-tipping
Dear Tunbridge Wells Borough Council,
1. Is the council a Duty Body and does it have a Statutory Duty to fulfil in accordance with the Environmental Protection Act 1990 & Litter Code of Practice?
2. Does the council manage litter picking and fly tipping in-house or has a third party contractor been appointed?
3. Is the latter, who is the contractor and when and for how long have they been appointed?
4. Does the contract reflect and impose responsibility with penalties for failure or lack of performance on the contractor and does the contract clearly set out the need for the work to "back to back" with the council’s Statutory Duty?
5. What is the total number of litter-pickers in place?
6. How many financial penalties and to what value have been imposed on the contractor for the last year for not meeting standards or failing to carry out their work?
7. What is the annual cost of litter-picking for the last 3 years?
8. Does the council directly employ enforcement officers for issuing fines and carrying out prosecutions with regards to littering and fly-tipping offences or has this been outsourced?
9. How many enforcement officers are in place?
10. What is the annual total annual cost to the council per year for the enforcement officers?
11. How many fines have been issued over the last 3 years and to what value for:
FPNs for littering?
FPNs for Fly-Tipping?
Successful prosecutions for Fly-Tipping?
12. How many fly-tips have been recorded in the last 3 years
13. What is the cost to the council per year for clearing these fly-tips?
14. If no costs are recorded please provide costs using national standard cost estimates from the “Waste Data Flow” system that you are legally obliged to use to record all fly-tips.
15. How many fixed or portable CCTV cameras are owned by the council or via an appointed 3rd party for the purposes of fly-tipping prosecutions.
16. Are they all in working order?
17. Are they subject to a service / maintenance contract?
18. Who is responsible for monitoring the footage and how often is it
reviewed?
19. Has any of the footage been used for prosecutions and if so how many and
when?
20. Can you also confirm how many of the CCTV cameras are capable of night
vision?
21. If you have no CCTV cameras, when will you be putting these in place?
22. If you only have fixed CCTV cameras, when will you be putting in place
portable ones?
Yours faithfully,
Danny Lucas
Dear Mr Lucas,
Acknowledgement
Our Ref: EIR F09769
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Dear FOI (TWBC),
By law, the authority should normally have responded promptly and by 13 April 2021.
Can you please provide the requested information by return.
Yours sincerely,
Danny Lucas
Dear Mr Lucas,
Re: FOI F09769
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request.
Please find attached the response to your recent request. The information
has been provided by our Waste and Streetscene Team.
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