Southport Reporter (R) Online Nespaper for Merseyside

Read our Tracking & Cookie Usage Policy

 

Terms and Conditions

Southport and  Mersey Reporter -  Your free online newspaper service covering the Merseyside region - (Greater Liverpool).
Covering the news in and around Merseyside

MERSEY REPORTER

Click on here to email our news room today!

Email

 

 
Your free online newspaper for Merseyside
   
This website is licence to carry news from Vamphire.com and UK Press Photography.

  RSS

 

Latest Edition

Archive

Shop

Order Photos  Help Client Admin Advert Options

Updated news stories weekly.  Published online only every Thursday Evening.

Your online newspaper.   Your words.

Issue:- 20 March 2014

Liverpool's Zero tolerance for litter louts

LIVERPOOL is to adopt a zero tolerance approach to people who drop litter with more staff empowered to carry out enforcement.

The tough new measures were announced by Mayor Joe Anderson following a special summit convened to discuss how Liverpool can be made cleaner and greener.

Over 80 delegates from more than 60 businesses, community organisations, schools, housing associations, football cubs and other groups attended the Town Hall summit.

"We could have had many more organisations present; the summit was very much oversubscribed. which indicates how much interest there is this issue. It clearly demonstrates how much people want Liverpool to be proud of their city as it is clean and green and not tainted by the anti-social minority who drop litter, fly-tip or let their dogs foul our streets. The money we have to spend on cleaning up after them and we spend £6.5m a year, could be far better spent on providing other services. So, we are going to have a blitz on those people who drop litter or don't clean up after their dogs." said Mayor Anderson.

The Council will work with registered housing providers to train their staff to take on enforcement powers. And more than 100 Police Community Support Officers are also going to be enforcing environmental crimes.

"It means that there will be very many more people working to stop people littering our city at no extra cost to the Council taxpayers." said Mayor Anderson.

He said that in the last 2 years £200,000 in fixed penalty notices had been issued with 106 people prosecuted with the courts fining them an average of £175. He added further initiatives on enforcement would be announced soon.

Mayor Anderson said 26 apprentices, jointly funded by the City Council and its streetscene contractors Amey will be employed to help keep the City's streets clean.

He also announced a crackdown on businesses who created litter problems. "Most traders see the value in a clean city in attracting more visitors and this is especially the case in what it going to be a really special year for Liverpool with major events such as the International Festival of Business and the return for the Giants.  We want the city to be sparkling clean for these events; and having set the standard maintain it for everybody who lives here or visits Liverpool.  However, there are some fast food outlets who allow their customers to create a mess. If they won't work with us in clearing away rubbish we will review their opening hours through our licensing process."

But as well as taking action against those who commit environmental crime Mayor Anderson said there would be a reward scheme for good behaviour such as using litter bins correctly. And he said that he was setting a recycling target for the city of 55% plus by 2020, in excess of the Government's target figure by using a number of new measures.

A new poster campaign schools learning pack to support the curriculum and teach children about the importance of environmental issues will be drawn up; there will be a recycling collecting scheme for business and improved access to recycling services for houses which have passageways.

"By investing in recycling we not only benefit the city but we also save; the less we bury in the ground, the less we are hit by landfill tax.  All the new moves on enforcement and recycling are initiatives which the Council can take but while we can play a major part in helping to deliver a cleaner city, the message from today is very much that we cannot do everything ourselves.  Businesses, community groups, schools and other organisations have to show pride in their city by taking action themselves. Together we can make a real difference in people's lives. Those organisations attending the summit have signed pledges in which they commit themselves to playing their part in helping to make Liverpool cleaner and greener and we will work together to help deliver those pledges." said Mayor Anderson.

Fact File:-

14,000 tonnes of litter are removed from Liverpool's streets every year.

£6.5million is spent on cleaning the streets – that could pay for the education of 1960 primary school pupils for a year or heating 4,500 homes.

It costs the Council £85 for every tonne of waste it sends to landfill.

Next of Kin Appeal... Are you related to Roger Davis?

THE Liverpool Coroner’s Office are appealing for the public’s help in tracing the next of kin of Roger Davis, who died in his home on Argos Place in Bootle, Sefton, Merseyside, on Monday, 17 March 2014. His death is not being treated as suspicious but is subject to an investigation by the Liverpool Coroner’s office. Mr Williams was 69 years old. It is believed Mr Davis has three adult children in the region and a former partner in the Skelmersdale area. Mr Davis’ family, or anyone who knows them, are asked to call the Liverpool Coroner’s Office on:- 0151 225 5067.

News Report Page Quick Flick.

Click on here to go back to this week's home page! News Report Page Quick Flick
Click on this section to see last weeks edition of Southport and Mersey Reporter!

Our radio station phone in message line...   Call us now!

Sign up today for our daily email news service!

Sign up to our Daily Email News Service by clicking here now...

QLocal a for you. Did you know we where the UK's first online only newspaper and we still are?  Here at Southport and Mersey Reporter  we are still at  leading the way for local news.

All email addresses and information is held under the UK's Data Protection Act.

 
Highlighted events that are taking place this month:-

If you have an event and want to get it noticed, let us know by emailing us to:- news24@merseyreporter.com

Click on the event title displayed above to find out about lots more events, as well as dates & times!

Our websites in our online series.   Group navigation, information and useful none group links...
Southport TV - Our online video archive. Liverpool Reporter - Our online music station. Mersey Reporter - OUR HUB WEBSITE.
Southport TV Liverpool Reporter Mersey Reporter Formby Reporter

Add to Google

This is what the moon is doing tonight.  Click on to find out why.

See the view live webcamera images of the road outside our studio/newsroom in the hart of Southport.

Our live Southport Webcam.  To see click live, click on image.

SOUTHPORT CHAT

Show us your location
Please sign our map and let us know where you are  from....

.

News Room Phone Number

(+44)  08443 244 195
Calls will cost 7p per minute, plus your telephone company's access charge. 

Calls to this number may be recorded for security, broadcast, training and record keeping.

This online newspaper and information service is regulated by IMPRESS, the independent monitor for the UK's press.

How to make a complaint

Complaints Policy  -  Complaints Procedure  -  Whistle Blowing Policy

© PCBT Photography & PBT Media Relations Ltd. - Southport Reporter® is the Registered Trade Mark of Patrick Trollope