Waste Disposal Scrutiny Task Group

Please note

Evidence gathered from witnesses and on visits by the Group during the course of its work is presented on this webpage as a service and does not constitute an endorsement by either the Group or the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames for any views or information stated therein.

• Purpose of the Task Group
• Meetings
• Membership
• Get involved

Purpose of the Task Group

Every year residents in the borough throw out enough waste to cover Twickenham Rugby Stadium with a pile of rubbish 50m deep. Most of this now goes to landfill but, under new legislation, this will soon no longer be possible.

In order to have input into the Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy for the West London Waste Authority (including Richmond upon Thames), Councillors decided to establish a Scrutiny Task Group to provide input into the strategy from this Borough and to facilitate residents' involvement. The strategy will determine what happens to the waste across the 6 London Boroughs for the next 20 years.

Meetings

Thurs 13 October 2005, Meeting of Environment O&S Committee

• Topic: The Committee endorsed the Final Report of the Waste Disposal Scrutiny Task Group
• Minutes: Minutes of Environment O&S Committee meeting 13.10.05
• Documents: Waste Disposal Scrutiny Task Group - Final Report(pdf, 1326KB)

Wed 5 October 2005, Meeting of WLWA Board

• Topic: Approval of WLWA Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy
• Minutes: Minutes of WLWA Board Meeting 5.10.05
• Documents: Volume 1 - Core Report(pdf, 3133KB); Volume 2 - Technical Report(pdf, 4121KB)

Mon 6 June 2005, 7pm, York House, Twickenham

• Topic: Discussion of structure of Task Group final report
• Minutes: Notes of meeting 6.6.05(pdf, 55KB)
• Documents: Survey of residents regarding kerbside recycling Sept. 2003(pdf, 556KB); Survey of users of Townmead civic amenity site(pdf, 123KB)

Thurs 26 May 2005, 7pm, Clarendon Hall, York House, Twickenham

• Topic: Presentation by consultants of the draft WLWA waste strategy
• Minutes: Agenda 26.5.05(pdf, 59KB); Notes of meeting 26.5.05(pdf, 83KB)
• Documents: West London Draft Waste Strategy - Key Objectives(pdf, 99KB); Presentation by WLWA consultants(pdf, 193KB)

Tues 10 May, 7pm, Clarendon Hall, York House, Twickenham

• Topic: Presentation by consultants of options being considered under the new draft strategy
• Minutes: Agenda 10.5.05(pdf, 56KB), Notes of meeting 10.5.05(pdf, 82KB)
• Documents: Presentation by WLWA consultants(pdf, 210KB)

Tues 10 May, Chineham nr. Basingstoke

• Topic: Fact-finding visit to Energy from Waste (EfW) Plant at Chineham nr. Basingstoke
• Minutes: Notes of visit 10.5.05(pdf, 56KB); Process at EfW plant in photos(pdf, 296KB)

Wed 13 April 2005, West London Composting, Hillingdon

• Topic:Fact-finding visit to West London Composting, Harefield, Hillingdon
• Minutes: Notes of visit 13.4.05(pdf, 557KB)

Tues 12 April 2005, 7pm, Clarendon Hall, York House

• Topic: Public meeting on recycling
• Minutes: Notes of meeting 12.4.05(pdf, 84KB), Responses to questionnaire following presentations(pdf, 452KB)
• Documents: Presentation by Council's Recycling Manager(pdf, 192KB), Presentation on plastics recycling(pdf, 104KB), Presentation by Grosvenor Waste(pdf, 238KB), Presentation by Novelis (formerly Alcan)(pdf, 749KB)

Mon 11 April 2005, York House, Twickenham

• Topic: Task Group member briefing from Prof. John Donaldson
• Documents: Briefing(pdf, 302KB)

Wed, 9.3.05, 7pm, York House, Twickenham

• Topic: TG to review outcome of public meeting on 1.2.05
• Minutes: Notes of meeting 9.3.05(pdf, 74KB)

Tues, 1.2.05, 7pm, Clarendon Hall, York House, Twickenham

• Topic: Public Meeting with experts: Prof John Donaldson, Brunel University; Consultants for the West London Waste Authority's new waste strategy
• Minutes:Notes of meeting 1.2.05(pdf, 42KB), Presentation by consultants on the WLWA Waste Strategy(pdf, 1231KB)
• Documents: Responses of attendees to questionnaire following presentations(pdf, 185KB)

17.1.05, 7pm, York House

• Topic: Discussion of future work programme

25.11.04, York House

• Topic: Scoping Meeting
• Minutes: Agenda 22.11.04(pdf, 54KB), Notes of meeting 22.11.04(pdf, 47KB)
• Documents: Briefing Paper(pdf, 32KB)

Task Group membership

• Cllr Alan Butler (Chairman)
• Cllr Martin Elengorn
• Cllr Annie Hambidge
• Cllr James Mumford
• Dr Michael Gold
• James Page

Adviser to the Group: Prof. John Donaldson, Brunel University

Get involved

If you would like more information about the work of this Task Group, please send an email, letter or fax to:

Jonathan Hill-Brown

Democratic Services
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
York House
Richmond Road
Twickenham
TW1 3AA

Tel: 020 8891 7191
Fax: 020 8891 7701
Email: scrutiny@richmond.gov.uk