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There is no summary of this meeting yet. Summaries are written once the council publishes the minutes, which are its official record of what a meeting decided. They usually appear a few weeks after the meeting.
No disclosures of interest were received.
No declarations were made.
Panel agreed the Minutes of the meeting on 17 September 2024 as an accurate record of the meeting.
Letter to Cabinet Member following the meeting on 17 September 2024 and Cabinet Member’s response were noted by the Panel.
No questions were received.
Cyril Anderson, Cabinet Member for Community Services, Matthew Perkins, Group Leader Waste and other relevant officers attended to update the Panel on development of the Council’s new Waste Strategy for 2025-2030. Discussion Points: · Update stated a report went to the Transformation Committee in April 2024 and then progressed to Cabinet in July 2024 where approval was given to consult with the public on the draft strategy. Following discussion at Scrutiny Programme Committee on issues with kerbside collections, and the service area taking action to ensure waste collections improved, the service area decided to temporarily delay the public consultation to early 2025. · Once the public consultation has been undertaken the service area will proceed with the remaining steps to adoption of the new strategy. Aim is for the new Strategy to be ready by middle of 2025 at the latest. This item will be added to the Panel’s future workplan. · Panel asked questions about the new recycling containers, travel to incineration plants, pests and kerbside collections, missed collections and reporting of missed collections. Actions: · Add ‘Future Waste Strategy’ to the Panel’s Work Plan in September 2025.
David Hopkins, Cabinet Member for Corporate Service and Performance attended together with relevant officers to update the Panel on this issue and answer questions. Representatives from Natural Resources Wales also attended. Discussion Points: · Panel received an overview of work carried out by the Council in relation to Water Quality and Water Management. · Panel asked questions about monitoring of private drinking water supplies and where the water comes from, rubbish collecting at the barrage, release of sewage into the Tawe and at Langland and Caswell, Knab Rock spills, water pollution incidents, what diffusers are for, monitoring concentration of sewer outflows, schemes for surface water removal, grants available for flooded gardens. Actions: · Information on rubbish collection at the barrage to be provided to the Panel. · Information to be provided to the Panel on large schemes the Council is working on to keep surface water out of sewers. · Panel to be informed by NRW of any grants available for flooded gardens.
Panel considered the work plan and noted items for the next meeting.
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