IT seems there's been some 'joined up thinking' going on at West Lancs District Council recently.
Visitors to its website will be able to read how the authority is teaming up with the Environment Agency to crack down on fly-tippers. And to make it nice and official, an official agreement has been signed between the two parties.
This was just a few days before another notice went out telling residents that from October 1, the previously free bulky waste collection will now set you back £12.50.
I'm sure it's just a mere coincidence.
That must be the case, especially given cabinet member Cllr David Westley's assurances in an Advertiser interview a few weeks ago that this new system will actually REDUCE the amount of fly-tipping.
It'll be interesting to see if the next set of figures from the Street Scene department prove him right, and whether this new WLDC/EA partnership actually works as well in practice as it sounds on paper.
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The Sniper wrote...
Sudworth the cynic;... I suppose that;s your job.
Fly tipping appears to be a big problem in West Lancs. I notice a lot of the jcountry lanes are regularly blighted with vanloads of ruber tyres.
I presume the Adv7ertiser will keep an eye on things to see where everyonbe's dumping their sofas instead of coughing up £12.50 for the council's Christmas staff jamboree?
Posted by: The Sniper | October 3, 2007 6:51 PM