Mayor attacks again in waste dispute

14 March 2007
 
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has launched a new attack on the capital’s councils in his campaign for a single waste authority for the capital.
The mayor has asked environment secretary David Miliband to order the boroughs to provide him with detailed information on their street cleaning and litter collection performance.
Livingstone claims that over the past three years he has sought information on a voluntary basis for his London-wide State of the environment report on the number of street fines collected and incidents of graffiti, fly posting and dog fouling in the capital’s 33 council areas.
The mayor’s latest deadline for councils was 9 March but only 10 councils responded, so he said: ‘I am calling on the secretary of state to intervene and make the information scheme compulsory.
‘One of the key issues of concern to Londoners is the problem of litter and the street environment. The boroughs need to provide information on the street environment so we can evaluate how we can improve on the problems of litter, fly-tipping and graffiti across the capital.’
‘The government has recently said there should not be a single waste disposal authority for London to deal with recycling. It should instead be a voluntary forum, but as the lack of information on litter and street cleansing shows, we need London-wide co-ordination of these issues.
Cllr Daniel Moylan, chairman of London Councils’ transport and environment committee, which represents the boroughs, has dismissed the need for a compulsory scheme as a ‘costly and unnecessary’ burden for local council tax payers.

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