I’ve just tasked our Place Manager with the unenviable task (not really she used to be my Environmental Service Manager) to work with ES and the planners on how to deal with old site notices. The planners have always given me the excuse that it would be a signicantly burden to remove notices after the required period had lapsed. This is not an unreasonable excuse given all of the other pressures on the team, but I’m finding it less and less acceptable for other reasons.
Apart from the obvious process of having a body revisit a site 21+ days after the notice was posted, does anybody have a clever method for seeing site notices and their securing devices disappear from a lpost, or location they’re placed on please?
Our notices are laminated and then tie wrapped to a pole, or post. Sometimes the officer will wrap a clear tape around it instead of tie wrapping it.
I’ve asked Environmental Services to get involved by keeping an eye out from now on, for all old site notices and to remove them along with all securing materials, but that will take years, if ever, to complete.
As an alternative, I was wondering if anybody had something biodegradable, being weather proof for the required 21days, but then breaking down to nothing. Also, a fastening that would also eventually disappear?
My big advantage is that I’m chairman of planning and the cabinet member for ES, at least until May, when the public may decide otherwise! So I can influence both depts for now. Thanks.
