Day 075 - 17 Jan 95 - Page 26
1 A. Yes.
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3 Q. Yes?
4 A. Yes.
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6 Q. Going back to this leaflet, two questions: The Street
7 Protection (sic) Notices, how far do they extend from -----
8 A. You mean the Street Litter Control Notices?
9
10 Q. Sorry, whatever they are called, how far do they extend?
11 A. The Act indicates that the Local Authority can indicate
12 the area over which it thinks it is reasonable, and it
13 talks about a reasonable distance either side. In
14 practice, that is something like the order of 50 feet
15 either side of the frontage of a shop.
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17 Q. You are not aware of local authorities saying that it
18 should be further than that?
19 A. No, I am not and I think that it would then be a great
20 debate about what was reasonable, but that is the general
21 figure that people -- that has been used by local
22 authorities.
23
24 Q. Can I ask about the cleanliness standards table?
25 A. Yes.
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27 Q. Why is it that, for example, in town centres it is felt
28 that if they get to grade (D) they should be cleaned up
29 within one hour; whereas with, say, residential areas there
30 is, you know, a longer period of time?
31 A. It is all a function of the density of the people using
32 the space. I mean, that is really the rationale behind it;
33 that if you have a much larger number of people moving
34 about per square yard or per square hectare, or whatever,
35 then the problem is likely to be greater and, therefore,
36 the period of time during which environment/index.html">litter is deposited will be
37 shorter, therefore, the period during which it is picked up
38 has to be shorter.
39
40 Q. So, although a low density residential area, for example,
41 might look as bad as a town centre street, the residents
42 would have to put up with that for longer?
43 A. Not necessarily. They can make representations to
44 their Local Authority. The Local Authority can zone in
45 whatever way it wishes to. If it thinks that a particular
46 area, though it is not a town centre or not within the
47 broad outlines that are contained in this leaflet (which is
48 meant simply as a guide), if it comes to the conclusion
49 that an area is particularly prone to littering and,
50 therefore, needs to zone it differently, then it is at
51 liberty to do so and, according to the zoning, the
52 frequency of cleanliness will change. The local residents
53 are perfectly at liberty to make representations to the
54 Local Authority to change the zoning which they are
55 supposed -- the Local Authority is supposed to publish on a
56 map to accommodate the problem. So, they do not have to
57 put up with it, to answer your question directly.
58
59 Q. I was just curious as to why they were divided into those
60 categories and given those lengths of time?
