Decision details

TRADE WASTE COLLECTION CHARGES

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

To determine the level of Trade waste Charges for the 2006/07 financial year.

Decision:

THAT

1.      The Trade Waste charges be set, from the 1st April 2006, at the levels indicated in Appendix 1 to this report.

Reasons for the decision:

The Environmental Protection Act 1990 places the following duty on a local authority insomuch that:

“A person at whose request waste other than household waste is collected under this section shall be liable to pay a reasonable charge for the collection and disposal of the waste to the authority which arranged for its collection; and it shall be the duty of that authority to recover the charge unless in the case of a charge in respect of commercial waste the authority considers it inappropriate to do so.”

Alternative options considered:

To determine charges that either above or below the charges recommended in the report.

Wards Affected: (All Wards);

Publication date: 03/03/2006

Date of decision: 02/03/2006