Decision details

Received a report recommending the Assembly to adopt schedule 4, of section 99 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to allow authorised officers to seize abandoned trolleys and charge owners a fee for the collection, storage and return of the trolleys that are seized.

Agreed, in order to allow Council operatives to remove abandoned trolleys and set charges and fees for the collection, storage and return of those trolleys seized and in order to assist the Council in meeting its Community Priority of ‘Making Barking and Dagenham Cleaner, Greener and Safer’, to recommend the Assembly to:

1. Adopt Schedule 4, of section 99, of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 throughout Barking and Dagenham;

2. Apply the proposed fees (set out in paragraph 3.2 of the report) for the collection, storage and return of trolleys to their owners; and

3. Delegate authority to the Director of Housing and Health to agree any proposed voluntary scheme of trolley collection submitted by local businesses, with a review to take place three months after implementation.