Committee details

Environment and Safe Communities Committee

Purpose of committee

Questions from the Public

Members of the public who live, work, attend an educational establishment or own or lease land in the Borough may submit a written question to, or ask a question verbally at meetings of Environment and Safe Communities Committee on matters within the committee’s Terms of Reference.

Written questions must be submitted to the Council’s Chief Legal Officer. The written question must arrive by noon on the tenth working day before the day of the meeting. For example, for a meeting on a Tuesday, the request must therefore arrive by noon on the Tuesday two weeks before the meeting.

Terms of Reference

Committee

Terms of Reference

Number of Councillors

Environment & Safe Communities Committee

1 Transportation policy

2 Waste management refuse collection and recycling

3 Environmental improvement schemes

4 The quality of the public realm, including cleansing

5 Highway matters that are the responsibility of the Borough Council and drainage

6 Community safety & crime and disorder prevention

7 Parking

8 Contaminated land

11 Environmental protection, pollution control

12 Health and safety

13 Burials, cemeteries and closed churchyards

14 Street trading

15 Street naming and numbering

16 The provision and management of parking and the fixing of charges and parking enforcement

17 No decisions which result in amendments to the agreed budget or additional spend may be made by the Committee unless and until it has been approved by Strategy & Resources Committee.

Membership

Contact information

Support officer: Democratic Services, 01372 732122. Email: democraticservices@epsom-ewell.gov.uk