Minutes:
The Committee received a presentation from the Overview and Scrutiny Officer on recent press articles and news stories relating to the remit of Environment and Sustainable Communities (for copy see file of minutes).
The first article was in relation to six people been fined a total of more than £900 for throwing away their rubbish in County Durham.
The second article related to Durham City going for gold as a finalist in this year’s national Britain in Bloom having already won the gold award last year.
The third article was in relation to a volunteer army springing into action as part of the Big Spring Clean to help spruce up parks, walkways and other public rights of way with scores of volunteers across County Durham taking part.
The fourth article related to residents been encouraged to get composting in-line with international compost awareness week.
The fifth article was in relation to 17 fly-tipping cases investigated after the council installed 24 extra CCTV cameras at rubbish hotspots. The cameras were paid for partly by local councillors and part of Operation Stop It. The article highlighted that since the launch of Operation Stop It in November 2014 there had been a reduction in the number of fly-tipping incidents.