Agenda item - Items referred from Council

Items referred from the meeting of Full Council held on 19 July 2018:

(a)          Petitions

(i)        George Street Mural

(ii)       St John’s Church recycling bring point

(iii)      Cityclean Missed Collections

(iv)     Regency Square & i360

(A)         PETITIONS

(i)            George Street Mural

26.1      The Committee considered a petition referred from the meeting of Full Council held on 19 July and signed by 114 requesting for renovation of the Mural which linked George Street and Haddington Street.

26.2      The Chair provided the following response:

“Brighton and Hove City Council is responsible for removing graffiti from public buildings, council owned highway structures. 

However, we are always happy to help local communities where possible to deal with the graffiti issues they experience.

Upon inspection our graffiti specialist made a sample removal and established that applying chemicals we currently use to the surface could lead to the damage of the mural that has been placed.

We are liaising with our Chemical supplier to further investigate of possible safe ways to remove the tags from the mural without causing irreversible harm to the painted surface.

Finally, on the 11th and 12th of October a Graffiti conference take place in Brighton and Hove where representative from other Local Authorities, private cleansing contractors and Graffiti Removal Chemicals manufacturers will discuss the Policies and good practices used across the country aiming to reduce the negative effect that  graffiti has on the neighbourhoods and City centres and we have already managed to secure one of the businesses to see if they could help preserving the mural for the future”.

26.3      RESOLVED- That the Committee note the petition.

(ii)          St John’s Church recycling bring point

26.4      The Committee considered a petition referred from the meeting of Full Council held on 19 July and signed by 208 requesting changes to the public space outside St John’s Church, Church Road to include possible re-siting of the recycling point.

26.5      The Chair provided the following response:

“Thank you for your petition.  

The St John’s Street recycling point is a large recycling bring site, it is extremely well used and serves several hundred properties.  

A site visit to discuss the possibility of moving it to another location has been carried out with local residents and ward councillors but a decision to move the location of the site has not been made as yet. 

City Clean managers are looking into the options with colleagues in Highways and Planning and will continue to involve residents until a suitable resolution is found”.

26.6      RESOLVED- That the Committee note the petition.

(iii)         Cityclean Missed Collections

26.7      The Committee considered a petition referred from the meeting of Full Council held on 19 July and signed by 769 people requesting an investigation into missed refuse, recycling and garden waste collections.

26.8      The Chair provided the following response:

“Thank you for your petition.

As you may be aware, there is a report on today’s agenda the committee will discuss the matters raised in your petition during its discussion of that report. 

I would like to apologise that some residents have not provided the standard of refuse and recycling collection services that they should have had and for the inconvenience that this has caused. 

We are very aware that there have been some significant issues for some residents with the refuse and recycling services and there are a number of reasons for this.  A report is being presented this evening which sets out in some detail the reasons for the council’s poor performance in some areas of the city and what we are doing to put this right”.

(iv)         Regency Square & i360

26.9      See minute item 28.