11th May 2021 Environmental Services Meeting

Environmental Services Committee

1. Apologies

2. Declarations of Interest

3. Minutes of Meeting held Monday 19 April 2021 (summary attached)

4. Deputation: Mr Gavin Wallace, North Coast World Earth
   FOR DECISION (Items 5 - 10 inclusive)

5. Entertainment Licensing Report (report attached)

6. Installation of Local Exhaust Ventilation to Workshops in Limavady Depot (report attached)

7. Extension to Household Recycling Centre Summer Opening Times (report attached)

8. Purchase and Fitting of Lifting Gear to ‘Big Bite’ Skip Lorry Chassis (report attached)

9. Improvements to Council Harbours for Commercial Fishing Interests  (report attached)

10. NIHE Lease: Hazard House, 59 Hamilton Park, Ballymoney (report attached)

FOR INFORMATION (Items 11-16 inclusive)

11. Entertainment Licence Renewals (report attached)

12. Petroleum Spirit Licence Renewals (report attached)

13. Poisons Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1983 (report attached)

14. Street Trading Licence Renewals (report attached)

15. Update on Littersmart Activity (January to April 2021) (report attached)

16. The Association of Public Sector Excellence (APSE) - Performance Benchmarking (report attached)

17.  Correspondence

18.   Consultation Documents

19.   Conferences

20.   Matters for Reporting to Partnership Panel

 IN COMMITTEE (Items 21-24 inclusive)

21. Consideration of Engagement of Private Contractor to complement Litter Enforcement (report attached)

22. Dog Kennelling Services: Award of tender 2021-2024 with 1 year extension option (report attached)

23. Concessionary Trading Outcome – On-line Auction (report attached)

24. Briar Hill – Legal Opinion (report attached)
 
25.  Any Other Relevant Business (notified in accordance with Standing
 Order 12 (o))

Alderman Robinson

To ask Council if they can detail the opening and closing times of the public toilets at our beaches, specifically Benone, Castlerock and Portrush and if there are any plans to extend opening times for earlier morning opening and later closing to cater for an increase in beach users during the Summer months.

Councillor Wilson

To ask the director:

At the full council meeting in May, it was proposed and accepted that additional resource be used to tackle litter etc in areas like Portrush and similar. Can the director advise what the options will be for additional resource, what the cost implications will be and what other services will need to be reduced /stood down (if any) to facilitate additional resource/works in abovementioned areas to ensure we remain within the recently set budget ?