Environment Panel - Wednesday 24 September 2008

A meeting of the Environment Panel will be held in one of the Committee Rooms at the Town Hall, Library Street, Wigan at 3.00 pm on Wednesday 24 September 2008.

The Agenda for the meeting is as follows:-

1 Welcome to new Co-opted Member:

2 Apologies for absence:

3 Minutes: 30 July 2008.

4 Urgent business (if any): To be accepted at the discretion of the Chairman of the meeting.

5 Exclusion of the Public: The Panel is asked to consider whether by resolution to exclude the public from the meeting during consideration of the items of business marked with an 'E' reference because of the possibility of the disclosure of exempt information.

6 To receive declarations of interest in any item for discussion at the meeting. A blank form for declaring interests has been circulated with the agenda, please ensure that this is returned to the Committee Clerk at the end of the meeting.

Open items:

7 Adoption of streets and highway drains (.pdf, 40kb): Report of the Director of Environmental Services enclosed.

8 Environmental Enforcement Strategy (.pdf, 268kb): Report of the Director of Environmental Services enclosed.

9 Use of litterbins for depositing wrapped dog waste (.pdf, 61kb): Report of the Director of Environmental Services enclosed: Report of the Director of Environmental Services enclosed.

10 Questions by Members at panel meetings (if any):

Closed items

E1 Quarterly reports: (a) Delegated decisions made by Chief Officers exceeding £250,000 or of strategic significance to the Council: There are none.

(b) Contracts signed with a value exceeding £150,000: There are none.

(c) Exceptions to Standing Orders approved by the Service Director - Corporate Services: There are none.

(d) Decisions to accept other than the lowest tender: There are none.