Issue - meetings

The Committee consider a report which provided information on service activity relating to Scrap Metal Dealers.

Mr. Simon Wilkes, Business Manager, Worcestershire Regulatory Services (WRS) introduced the report and in doing so informed the Committee that the Operation Titan report had been produced to outline legislative background and to provide Members with a clear understanding of the limits to which the service could act. The service had received a number of complaints in relation to the activities of itinerant scrap metal collectors operating in all parts of the county.  Generally these complaints were raised as noise nuisance issues.  Currently there was little the service could do to resolve residents problems, in relation to itinerant scrap metal dealers, who drove around in flat bed transit type vans and the noise created by either crying out or using bugles.  The report outlined the proposed provisions of a private members bill aimed at improving local authority’s ability to deal with these issues. 

Members’ attention was drawn to the Scrap Metal Dealers Bill 2012/2013 Private Members’ Bill sponsored by Richard Ottaway MP which was due for its second reading in the House of Lords on 30th November 2012.

RESOLVED:

(a)               that the report be noted; and

(b)               that Members lobby local MPs to support the Scrap Metal Dealers Bill 2012/2013 Private Members’ Bill sponsored by Richard Ottaway MP.