Litter & Fly-tipping

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Dear Sevenoaks District 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 on the contractor to comply 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 of 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. 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?

11. How many fly-tips have been recorded in the last 3 years

12. What is the cost to the council per year for clearing these fly-tips?

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. Are they all in working order?

16. Are they subject to a service / maintenance contract?

17. Who is responsible for monitoring the footage and how often is it
reviewed?

18. Has any of the footage been used for prosecutions and if so how many and
when?

19. Can you also confirm how many of the CCTV cameras are capable of night
vision?

20. If you have no CCTV cameras, when will you be putting these in place?

21. If you only have fixed CCTV cameras, when will you be putting in place
portable ones?

Yours faithfully,

Danny Lucas

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Dear Mr Lucas

 

Freedom of Information Request: 179 - 2021

 

Thank you for your request received by Sevenoaks District Council on 13
March 2021.

 

In relation to your enquiry, please find the Council’s response set out
below.

 

Your enquiry and our response:

 

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? - Yes

2. Does the council manage litter picking and fly tipping in-house or has
a third party contractor been appointed? – In-house

3. Is the latter, who is the contractor and when and for how long have
they been appointed? – n/a

4. Does the contract reflect and impose responsibility with penalties for
failure on the contractor to comply back to back with the council’s
Statutory Duty? n/a

5. What is the total number of litter-pickers in place? – Our in-house
street cleansing team have 36 FTEs

6. How many financial penalties and to what value have been imposed on the
contractor for the last year for not meeting standards of failing to carry
out their work? – n/a

7. What is the annual cost of litter-picking for the last 3 years? Our
annual street cleansing budget is £1.4million

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? - Yes

9. How many enforcement officers are in place? – 2

 

Question 10 to 13 is nationally published data
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics...

 

10. How many fines have been issued over the last 3 years and to what
value for:

FPNs for littering? – (This function is carried out by Environmental
Health)

FPNs for Fly-Tipping? –

Successful prosecutions for Fly-Tipping? -

11. How many fly-tips have been recorded in the last 3 years

12. What is the cost to the council per year for clearing these fly-tips?

13. 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.

 

14. 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. –
6 portable

15. Are they all in working order? Yes

16. Are they subject to a service / maintenance contract? Yes

17. Who is responsible for monitoring the footage and how often is it
reviewed? Enforcement officers reviewed case by case

18. Has any of the footage been used for prosecutions and if so how many
and when? We do not hold this information

19. Can you also confirm how many of the CCTV cameras are capable of night
vision? All

20. If you have no CCTV cameras, when will you be putting these in place?
n/a

21. If you only have fixed CCTV cameras, when will you be putting in place
n/a

 

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Dear FOI,

Many thanks for your partial reply.

The public report you point to does not contain the specific numbers for Sevenoaks as requested for questions 10 - 13.

Can you please provide the Sevenoaks only data for these questions.

Yours sincerely,

Danny Lucas

10. How many fines have been issued over the last 3 years and to what
value for:

FPNs for littering? – (This function is carried out by Environmental
Health)

FPNs for Fly-Tipping? –

Successful prosecutions for Fly-Tipping? -

11. How many fly-tips have been recorded in the last 3 years

12. What is the cost to the council per year for clearing these fly-tips?

13. 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.

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Dear Mr Lucas

 

Freedom of Information Request: 179 2021

 

Thank you for your request received by Sevenoaks District Council on 24
March 2021.

 

In relation to your enquiry, please find the Council’s response set out
below.

 

Your enquiry was:

 

10. How many fines have been issued over the last 3 years and to what
value for:

 

FPNs for littering? – (This function is carried out by Environmental
Health)

 

FPNs for Fly-Tipping? –

 

Successful prosecutions for Fly-Tipping? -

 

11. How many fly-tips have been recorded in the last 3 years

 

12. What is the cost to the council per year for clearing these fly-tips?

 

13. 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.

 

Our response:

 

The requested information is attached.

 

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