Minutes:
The following question was received from Councillor R Gibson:
In June this year, Councillor Newton and I met the Portfolio Holder responsible for garden waste at the Spalding site. We wanted to ask why we often have a long tail back of residents waiting to tip waste at our Spalding site. We looked at various road issues including opening up more land, different lane uses, road entry points and common trends.
The manager of the site informed us that one issue stood out amongst any others and if that was resolved we would have very little problem at Spalding recycling centre.
The chart below shows how many tonnes of green waste is delivered to Spalding per month. We are over double the amount of Grantham and Boston, 4 times more than Sleaford.
I know we are expanding our green waste provision, will we get to a position where we can cover most of South Holland with this service, if so do you know how long that would take please?
|
Sum of Net Weight Display in Tonnes |
Month |
|
|
|
|
Source Site |
April 2022 |
May 2022 |
June 2022 |
Grand Total |
|
Boston |
72.04 |
78.40 |
107.70 |
258.14 |
|
Bourne |
53.60 |
70.08 |
76.68 |
200.36 |
|
Gainsborough |
42.52 |
53.54 |
51.86 |
147.92 |
|
GNT |
87.62 |
121.44 |
100.54 |
309.60 |
|
Grantham |
77.98 |
94.70 |
88.24 |
260.92 |
|
KOB |
63.04 |
64.58 |
59.36 |
186.98 |
|
Louth |
97.90 |
112.42 |
140.82 |
351.14 |
|
Rasens |
23.60 |
57.04 |
63.30 |
143.94 |
|
Skegness |
46.76 |
53.80 |
79.72 |
180.28 |
|
Sleaford |
29.00 |
76.30 |
51.66 |
156.96 |
|
Spalding |
167.86 |
262.78 |
250.34 |
680.98 |
|
Grand Total |
761.92 |
1045.08 |
1070.22 |
2877.22 |
The following response was provided by the Portfolio Holder for Environmental Services:
South Holland’s Garden Waste Collection Scheme has grown in popularity and in success since it commenced in 2016, expanding into more collection vehicles and areas around the district. Following the Council decision of 19thJanuary 2022, and the agreement to expand the service into its third truck, a targeted campaign of selling has continued our expansion success and the subscriptions have doubled since September 2020, with now over 12,000 subscribers in the scheme.
The service is currently undertaking the re-routing project agreed at the same Council meeting, which will enable the scheme to reach more areas of the district. Currently there are around 120 people on the register for new areas that are interested in being part of the expanded scheme. Once this routing work has been completed, expected by Q2 of 2023/24, we will be able to offer subscriptions to more parts of the district and urge anyone interested in being included, to register via the website.
The above information was provided to members in printed form at the meeting.
No further supplementary question was asked.
The Portfolio Holder for Environmental Services thanked Councillor Gibson for the question. In his view there was a need to qualify the issue of the discrepancy in the numbers provided within the table included as part of the question. He was of the opinion that the data provided by Lincolnshire County Council with regard to garden waste was incorrect. His view was that the figures were too high when compared to the high number of households within the South Holland area already using the garden waste collection service, and that it was possible that the Spalding site was being used by individuals from outside of the South Holland area.