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Questions by Members
Meeting: 22/07/2026 - Council (Item 6.)
Questions by Members
The following questions have been submitted by Members of Council to Members of the Executive, in accordance with the Council Procedure Rules (Constitution Part 5A, Rule 12).
Written responses will be circulated to Members and published on the Council’s website at least one working day prior to the meeting. A Member submitting a question is entitled to ask one supplementary question at the meeting which must arise directly from the question or the response to it.
The supplementary questions and answers will be detailed in the minutes of the meeting.
Question 1: From Councillor Michele Mead to Councillor Liz Leffman, Executive Member for Planning:
How much has been spent on each individual external consultants used for the local plan?
Question 2: From Councillor Michele Mead to Councillor Alistair Wray, Executive Member for Environment:
Can you give us an accurate waiting time on replacement requests for garden waste bins as many residents have been waiting 3 months which exceeds the advised 30 working days?
Question 3: From Councillor Simon Watson to Councillor Alistair Wray, Executive Member for Environment:
Fly-tipping enforcement is a contracted Publica service, and West Oxfordshire's Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) rate has previously been reported at 1.15%, compared to 4.04% in the Vale of White Horse over the same period.
Since the change to the household waste recycling centre booking system, a number of residents and Cllrs have raised concerns that fly-tipping may have increased or remained persistently high, as some residents struggle to book tip slots or are deterred from using sites legitimately.
Could the Portfolio Holder please provide:
a) The total number of recorded fly-tipping incidents in West Oxfordshire for the 12 months to June 2026 (by month), compared with the same 12-month period the previous year;
b) The number of FPNs issued and the resulting FPN rate for each of these two periods, by month;
c) Whether officers have identified any correlation between the introduction of the tip booking system and fly-tipping incident levels; and
d) What steps, if any, are being taken to address fly-tipping where it may be linked to booking system access issues.
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