Issue - meetings

Report of Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Regeneration and Planning

Lead Cabinet member: Councillor Chris Collier

(Non-key decision):

(1) To note progress and performance for Quarter 4 and 2020- 21 performance.

(2) To note the targets for 2021-22.

(3) To request that officers provide more analysis on waste and recycling in the narrative of the existing key performance indicators in the performance report and provide a waste report for a future Policy and Performance Advisory Committee, with an explanation of data, trend analysis and benchmarking against other authorities.

The Cabinet considered the report of the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Regeneration and Planning, concerning the Council’s progress and performance in respect of key projects and targets for the fourth quarter of the year, as detailed at Appendix 1 to the report.

Staff were commended for their professionalism and dedicated service during the challenging periods of the Covid-19 pandemic. In many areas over the last 12 months, service levels had exceeded targets and days taken to process new claims for council tax and housing benefits and changes in circumstances had peaked at its strongest performance in 20 years.

The Policy and Performance Advisory Committee (PPAC) at its meeting on 30 June 2021, made the following recommendation to Cabinet:

To support the officer recommendations in the Cabinet report subject to the following additional recommendation being considered by the Cabinet:

That the Cabinet request that officers look into providing more information on volumes of waste going to landfill/incineration, including historical trends and benchmarking information, and that a communication strategy/campaign on waste reduction alongside recycling be developed’.

Councillor Miller, Chair of PPAC, was in attendance to present PPAC’s discussion. The Director of Service Delivery suggested an additional resolution to Cabinet to address PPAC’s recommendation. This was unanimously agreed by Cabinet and detailed below. Separate to the resolution, engagement work with the Portfolio Holder for Recycling, Waste and Open Spaces would take place on strengthening the communications around reuse and recycling.

Resolved (Non-key decision):

(1) To note progress and performance for Quarter 4 and 2020- 21 performance.

(2) To note the targets for 2021-22.

(3) To request that officers provide more analysis on waste and recycling in the narrative of the existing key performance indicators in the performance report and provide a waste report for a future Policy and Performance Advisory Committee, with an explanation of data, trend analysis and benchmarking against other authorities.

Reason for decisions:

To enable Cabinet members to consider specific aspects of the Council’s progress and performance.