Agenda item

To receive and consider the report of the Operations and Estates Officer (to follow)

The Committee received and considered the report of the Operations and Estates Officer as circulated prior to the meeting. There was discussion on the future of skips being provided to allotment sites and on whether the Council would buy a shredder for the Allotment Association. Members felt that the Association should be composting at the sites and skips would contradict the work of the Council in terms of its commitments on climate change.

RESOLVED:

1.            that the report be noted;

2.            that the request from Witney Allotment Association for a shredder be turned down;

3.            that Witney Allotment Association are advised the Town Council will not be providing a further skip following the final scheduled one in 2019;

4.            that following the Town Council declaration of a climate emergency, the Witney Allotment Association are advised they will need to write something into their constitution regarding environmental impact, and;

a)      that the above forms part of the lease negotiations and that the WAA provide ways in which they will mitigate their carbon footprint.