Agenda item - Member Involvement

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Agenda item

Member Involvement

To consider the following matters raised by Members:

 

(a)          Petitions: To receive any petitions submitted;

 

(b)          Written Questions: To consider any written questions;

 

(c)          Letters: To consider any letters;

 

(i)            Preventing Disease- Councillor Janio

 

(ii)          Bins Old Shoreham Road/Hangelton Road- Councillor Janio

 

(d)          Notices of Motion: To consider any Notices of Motion referred from Full Council or submitted directly to the Committee.

Minutes:

(c)      Letters

 

(i)            Preventing disease- Councillor Janio

 

45.1      The Committee considered a Letter from the Hangelton & Knoll ward councillors that detailed anecdotal evidence of an increase in rats in the Hangelton & Knoll area and requested a report to the next committee detailing the work of the council in co-operation with the Water Authorities to identify the impact of defective drains and sewers.

 

45.2      The Chair provided the following response:

 

“Thank you for raising this important issue relating to public health. 

I have asked officers to immediately look into this rather than waiting for a report. 

The council’s Environmental Health Manager has checked all the notifications of rat related call-outs and enquiries for this year and they are broadly comparable to last year.  299 jobs this year compared with 292 last year, so there has not been any significant increase. 

With regard to Hangleton and Knoll, there is not thought to have been any specific increase from this area.

Highway Managers have confirmed that the Hangleton and Knoll gullies were cleansed in April, June and July this year.  Sewer pipes are the responsibility of Southern Water but having checked with them, there have not been reports of drainage or flooding problems in the area nor any issue with rats. 

The additional capital funding for gulley clearance via the LTP is funding a programme of cleansing the most high-risk soakaways, however the majority of the Hangleton and Knoll area is on a combined system rather than a soakaway system.

Officers will be happy to follow up any aspects of this response with you and so for the moment I do not think that a full report is needed”. 

 

45.3      Councillor Janio asked if information was available for years before 2014 and if so, if this could be sent to him after the meeting.

 

45.4      The Chair replied that this information would be sent to Councillor Janio if available.

 

45.5      RESOLVED- That the Letter be noted.

 

(ii)          Bins Old Shoreham Road/Hangelton Road- Councillor Janio

 

45.6      The Committee considered a Letter from Councillor Janio requesting the installation of a bin on the eastern side of the junction of Old Shoreham Road and Hangelton Road due to increase foot flow on the road.

 

45.7      The Chair provided the following response:

 

“We will indeed have a litter bin sited as quickly as possible.

In terms of our very popular and very efficient Big Belly litter bins, you will recall the 100 that are now in place came about via a capital investment, agreed at the last Budget Council, as part of the service redesign of the street cleansing service.

 Any additional Big Belly bins - as welcome as they would be - would require a similar agreement by Members at Budget Council next year and I will discuss this with officers to determine the feasibility and cost benefit of this and whether the necessary capital finance is available".

 

45.8      RESOLVED- That the Letter be noted.

 

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