Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Cabinet Member for Climate Change & Environment.

The report details the Scrutiny Review of Sewage in Rivers and Waterways undertaken by Werneth Area Committee. The review included discussions with United Utilities, the Environment Agency, Mersey River Trust and Stockport Council officers and the report provides a summary of those discussions and a series of recommendations.

The Cabinet is recommended to consider the report and consider how it might respond to the report’s findings and recommendations.

Officer contact: Sue Stevenson on 0161 474 4351 or email: sue.stevenson@stockport.gov.uk

The Chair of the Werneth Area Committee (Councillor Lisa Smart) attended the meeting to present the final report of the Scrutiny Review into Sewage in Rivers and Waterways October 2022 to March 2023 (copies of which had been circulated) and to answer questions from the Cabinet.

Members welcomed the report and the work that had been undertaken to produce the final report.

The Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Environment (Councillor Mark Roberts) noted that the report was thorough and welcomed the recommendation requesting changes to the existing regulatory framework.  Councillor Roberts further expressed his thanks to those officers from United Utilities that had engaged and worked with the Werneth Area Committee and the wider council to address this issue.

RESOLVED – (1) That the Director of Place Management be requested to prepare a response to the Scrutiny Review and the recommendations contained therein for consideration by the Cabinet at a future meeting.

(2) That the gratitude of the Cabinet be recorded for the excellent work undertaken by the Werneth Area Committee and others involved in the Review.