Community Area
Manager
Richard Munro, Community Area Manager would be
moving on to an internal promotion on 10th October 2011.
The Chairman thanked Richard for all of his work for the Board over
the past two years.
Youth Service
The Youth Service had a display at the back of
the hall which included digital photos of recent projects, such as
the course attended by young people on how to build a straw bale
building.
Waste and
Recycling
Tracy Carter, Service Director for Waste and
Recycling had a display at the back of the hall detailing the
changes to the waste and recycling service for the South West, in
particular the implementation of an opt in free garden waste
collection service. Anyone interested in registering for the
service should do so by 30th September 2011. This could
be done online, or by completing and returning a leaflet which was
available at the meeting to take away.
There would be a series of road shows later in
the year to provide further information on the services
available.
Questions and comments were then taken from
the floor:
- Will the leaflets be distributed to
parish and town councils. Answer: Leaflets called
‘Coming Soon’ were sent out to every home, however more
leaflets can be made available if requested.
- The question on the
leaflet which asks if you already have
a wheeled bin, is not clear whether it is asking if you already
have a green waste wheeled bin or other wheeled bins. Answer: The question is to establish if you are a household
who can accommodate a wheeled bin or not. Some households do not
have space for any wheeled bins, so they are offered alternative
recycle bags, houses that already have wheeled bins for household
waste and the blue lid bins would be offered the green lid wheeled
bin.
- What is the recommended time to put
your bin out for collection and if a bin is put out at a different
time, too far in advance, and does this result in a fine. Answer: We ask that bins are placed out at 7.00am on the day
of collection and brought back in as soon as is possible after the
collection has been made. However if people put their bins out on
the night before a collection there would not usually be a problem
with that, and there would be no fine for doing so.
- Will a compost facility be available
in the future. Answer: We do have a food compost
scheme available where subsidized compost bins can be purchased by
Wiltshire residents, leaflets on this and information on the
website are available.
- Is a reduction in council tax
available to the rural households that are capable of composting
food and garden waste on their own land, and therefore would not
require the green waste service. Answer: At the
moment data is not collected on a Community Area basis and the
waste and recycling services provided by the Council are available
to everyone in Wiltshire.
The Chairman thanked Tracy for attending.