Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport seeking agreement to changes to the current operation of the Household Waste Recycling Centre, attached.

DECISION MADE:  (CAB 16/17 17424)

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment and Transport, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To reduce opening hours at the HWRC by two hours per day in the winter and Monday – Friday in the summer and by one hour per day on Saturday and Sunday in the summer.  To close the HWRC, one day per week on a Thursday each week.  Revised opening times would be 11am – 6pm, Monday – Friday and 10am – 6pm, Saturday and Sunday in the Summer and 11am – 4pm in the Winter, starting from 1 January 2017;

(ii)  That authority be delegated to the Service Director – Transactions and Universal Service, following consultation with the Executive Member for Environment and Transport and the Service Director, Legal & Governance, to implement all of the necessary operational and contractual changes and other actions for the recommendations to take effect.