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Lancashire Municipal Waste Strategy

 

 

Meeting: 08/07/2008 - Cabinet (Item 23)

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(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Jon Barry)

 

Report of Head of City Council (Direct) Services.

Minutes:

(Cabinet Member with Special Responsibility Councillor Jon Barry)

 

The Head of City Council (Direct) Services submitted a report that informed members of the implications of adopting the revised waste strategy ‘Rubbish to Resources’ for Lancashire 2008 to 2020 and requested a decision on the course of action regarding adoption of the strategy.

 

The options, options analysis, including risk assessment were set out in the report as follows:

 

Option

Pro

Con

Cabinet resolves to adopt the  strategy in principle and to delegate the acceptance of the final version of the document to the appropriate Cabinet member

The taking up of this option will enable the Council to formally adopt the new strategy within the allocated time scale. This would be beneficial to the County Council in order for it to proceed with plans in respect of waste disposal.

Lancaster City Council are already a member of the Lancashire Waste Partnership that has developed the strategy to date and have already signed up to the cost sharing arrangement.

Cabinet will not have the opportunity to consider any amendments to the Strategy that have resulted from the public consultation process

Cabinet resolves to await the publication of the final version of the strategy document prior to deciding upon the adoption of the strategy

A decision in respect the  Council’s adopting the new strategy and remaining in the Lancashire Waste Partnership will be taken by Cabinet

The awaiting of the final version of the document will delay the publication of the finalised Waste Strategy.

This is turn, could delay planning within the County

Cabinet resolves not to adopt the strategy and withdraw from the Lancashire Waste Partnership.

None

The Council lose the benefits of partnership working, together with Cost Sharing payments

 

 

 

The Officer preferred option was that Cabinet agree to adopt the Strategy in principle and that the decision to adopt the Strategy, once the final version had been published, be delegated to the appropriate Cabinet member.

 

It was proposed by Councillor Jon Barry and seconded by Councillor Evelyn Archer:-

 

“(1)      That the recommendations, as set out in the report, be approved, with the addition that recommendation 1 is approved in principle, subject to financial capacity.

 

(2)        That Cabinet receives a report on the Middleton Recycling and Re-use Plant.”

 

Members then voted as follows.

 

Resolved Unanimously:

 

(1)       That Cabinet adopt in principle, subject to financial capacity, the New Waste Management Strategy ‘Rubbish to Resources’ for Lancashire 2008 to 2020.

 

(2)               The Cabinet delegate the final adoption of the Strategy to the appropriate Cabinet Member, and subject to the budget framework being updated accordingly.

 

(3)               That a further report providing options for the implementation of the Strategy and its impact on the Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) will be presented to Cabinet in September 2008.

 

(4)               That Cabinet receives a further report on the Middleton Recycling and Re-use Plant.

 

Note: Councillor John Gilbert was not present when the vote was taken.

 

Officers responsible for effecting the decision:

 

Corporate Director (Community Services).

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