London Borough of Barnet council has concerns that the department will fail to make required budget savings or meet its recycling targets. In an effort to make some swift changes and hit targets the council has arranged a temporary team for their street services operation.
The new team will be overseeing a change to the recycling of Barnet’s street scene department who will find a proposed of £2.6 million of savings from waste cost. Jamie Blake, who is Barnet’s commissioning director for environment will retain direct oversight for the department.
Reports have stated that the current street scene management team had failed to put in place management capacity to enable the service to deliver against key objectives, and that the department was put under a lot of pressure to do more with less.
However the concern was raised regarding service pressure for the delivery of savings, achieving recycling targets and commercial waste services growth and management capacity.
To prevent this, the council outlines their long term recycling strategy which targets a substantial increase to gathering the recycling waste from flats to boost performance. As the council’s strategy is to meet the 50% by 2020 recycling target, the progress to achieve this has fallen short as the overall rate recorded for 2014/15 was at 37.95%.
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