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:

This Committee resolves to:

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