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COUNTY COUNCIL - 1 APRIL 2004

NOTICE OF MOTION

2. LITTER ON TRUNK ROADS

Councillor J. G. L. Wall to move:

Hampshire County Council calls on the Government to change the current arrangements regarding the collection of litter on trunk roads.

The Highways Agency, which is responsible for all aspects of the highways under their control except litter, should be required to either:

(i) undertake this responsibility themselves to agreed standards;

or, preferably:

(ii) resource district councils sufficiently to do the job properly, including all necessary equipment and operational support.

(Currently, litter collection on trunk roads is the responsibility of district councils, who have neither the equipment nor adequate budgets to carry this out effectively and can only work on the highways at the discretion of the Highways Agency.)

If option (i) above is pursued, since District Councils are responsible for litter collection on all other roads, they should retain responsibility for overseeing the litter condition of the trunk roads within their area and have powers to enforce against the Highways Agency as necessary.

The Chief Executive is instructed to write to the Minister for Transport with a request for prompt action on this matter on the lines suggested.