Environment, Transport & Sustainability Committee
Agenda Item 23(2)
Subject: Failure to Keep Pavements Safe and Tidy
Notice of Motion amendment from the Labour Group
Date of meeting: 20 September 2022
Proposer: Councillor Gary Wilkinson
Seconder: Councillor Nancy Platts
Ward(s) affected: All
That the relevant changes are made to the recommendations as shown below in bold italics and as strikethrough:
1.
Note
the ineffectiveness of the Council’s current efforts
in policy of keeping pavements free of
weeds;
3. Notes Labour’s budget amendments that secured additional funding to tackle weeds on pavements across the city;
4.
Requests
an officer report which considers reversing the
Administration’s unilateral decision of 27th June 2019, and
subsequent ETS Committee decision of 26th November 2019 to stop
weeding the pavements effectively, with options for a
new alternative methods of weed removal
policy that are is both cost-effective
and environmentally friendly that can be developed and trialled
around the city, and for ongoing consideration of other
methods.
Recommendations to read if carried:
This Committee resolves to:
1. Note the ineffectiveness of the Council’s current efforts in keeping pavements free of weeds;
2. Recognise that the Council has a statutory duty to keep pavements free of weeds; and
3. Notes Labour’s budget amendments that secured additional funding to tackle weeds on pavements across the city;
4. Requests an officer report with options for alternative methods of weed removal that are both cost-effective and environmentally friendly that can be developed and trialled around the city, and for ongoing consideration of other methods