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Sometimes Councils need to be taken down a peg or two as recent news shows:
1. The Court Case where a member of the public was taken to court for not recycling properly and Exeter Council lost. As an earlier posting pointed out, the attempt to "enforce" recycling is bound to fail as it will be seen as an imposition that will be evaded. Far better to create incentives to encourage recycling. Even better it means the lawyers don't make a profit out of the arrangements! Previous sentence joint copyright Charlie Mansell and Leslie Coman!:-)
2. The new governments guidelines to stop Councils continually clamping cars as part of their parking policies. Council's like Camden made the mistake of doing this so much they alienated local residents and it inevitably led to change of control, irrespective of any other performance of the Council.
In Sutton we have seen reasonable policies adopted so far in these areas, however as the wheelie bin fiasco showed, sometimes policies can get out of hand without proper debate.
In the absence of one major party from the Council chamber, blogs like this can widen debate. I hope we see a few more develop so we have maximum debate before decisions are made.
1. The Court Case where a member of the public was taken to court for not recycling properly and Exeter Council lost. As an earlier posting pointed out, the attempt to "enforce" recycling is bound to fail as it will be seen as an imposition that will be evaded. Far better to create incentives to encourage recycling. Even better it means the lawyers don't make a profit out of the arrangements! Previous sentence joint copyright Charlie Mansell and Leslie Coman!:-)
2. The new governments guidelines to stop Councils continually clamping cars as part of their parking policies. Council's like Camden made the mistake of doing this so much they alienated local residents and it inevitably led to change of control, irrespective of any other performance of the Council.
In Sutton we have seen reasonable policies adopted so far in these areas, however as the wheelie bin fiasco showed, sometimes policies can get out of hand without proper debate.
In the absence of one major party from the Council chamber, blogs like this can widen debate. I hope we see a few more develop so we have maximum debate before decisions are made.
posted by Charlie Mansell at 3:47 pm
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The Court Case where a member of the public was taken to court for not recycling properly and Exeter Council lost. As an earlier posting pointed out, the attempt to "enforce" recycling is bound to fail as it will be seen as an imposition that will be evaded.
Totall agree! Council need to move (or be dragged) into the 21st Century. The general public will need to understand and be convinced why they need to recycle rather than taking the easy route of a big black sack.Educating children in school would seem a good first step, along with lots of positive publicity about the benefits. Taking some soul to court sounds more like bully-boy tactics to me and bound to annoy and create the opposite mood to the one needed.
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Very much agree. I would like to commend the Council's Sustainability Team for their recent project of getting people who signed up to the Borough's Planet Pledge to call on local residents. We received a doorstep call and were able to say that we recycled about 85% of our waste.
I have noticed that it is families with young children who seem to have a low recycling rate and we need to use primary schools to promote this as part of their citizenhip education.
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