This Council believes that late night noise nuisance is a severe blight on the wellbeing of residents in many Leeds communities.
This Council believes that the decision of the Executive Member for Environment to stop recording the volume of calls that this service receives demonstrates that the current administration does not view late night noise nuisance as a priority.
Given the extreme concern expressed by residents about noise nuisance, this Council requests that the Chief Executive carry out an urgent review of the late night noise nuisance service with recommendations to be put to the Executive Board at a meeting in the near future.
J MATTHEWS
Minutes:
It was moved by Councillor Matthews, seconded by Councillor Bentley, that this Council believes that late night noise nuisance is a severe blight on the wellbeing of residents in many Leeds communities.
This Council believes that the decision of the Executive Member for Environment to stop recording the volume of calls that this service receives demonstrates that the current administration does not view late night noise nuisance as a priority.
Given the extreme concern expressed by residents about noise nuisance, this Council requests that the Chief Executive carry out an urgent review of the late night noise nuisance service with recommendations to be put to the Executive Board at a meeting in the near future.
After the motion was moved and seconded, Councillor J Lewis, seconded by Councillor Nash, moved under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 22.1 that Council Procedure Rule 13.1 be suspended to allow the introduction of the amendment below in the name of Councillor Dobson.
Having received leave of Council, Councillor Dobson, seconded by Councillor Gruen, moved the following amendment:-
That this Council believes that late night noise nuisance is a severe blight on the wellbeing of residents in many Leeds communities.
Council acknowledges that the tackling of noise nuisance at night remains a key priority of this administration, a fact recognised by the decision of the Council to continue to fund the service in the face of the worst cuts imposed on the authority in living memory by Cllr Matthew’s LibDem/Tory coalition Government.
Council further recognises that the noise nuisance service inherited from the previous administration was not as effective as it could have been. Therefore as part of the continued commitment of this administration to improve how noise nuisance is tackled in the future, a range of changes and improvements to the service have now been implemented following a thorough review. Some of these changes include:-
· Amalgamating noise nuisance within the anti-social behaviour team in order to provide a greater ‘one council’ response to cases.
· Better access to tools from a civil and legal perspective to deal quicker and more effectively with cases.
· Introduction of new telephony to improve response to customer and to provide greater intelligence on types and times of noise complaints.
· Greater partnership working with key groups such as victim support, the police and fire services in order to provide greater support to the customer.
Finally, this Council offers its gratitude to members of the noise nuisance team for their tremendous hard work and dedication in often very challenging and difficult circumstances.
The amendment in the name of Councillor Dobson was carried and, upon being put as the substantive motion, it was
RESOLVED – That this Council believes that late night noise nuisance is a severe blight on the wellbeing of residents in many Leeds communities.
Council acknowledges that the tackling of noise nuisance at night remains a key priority of this administration, a fact recognised by the decision of the Council to continue to fund the service in the face of the worst cuts imposed on the authority in living memory by Cllr Matthew’s LibDem/Tory coalition Government.
Council further recognises that the noise nuisance service inherited from the previous administration was not as effective as it could have been. Therefore as part of the continued commitment of this administration to improve how noise nuisance is tackled in the future, a range of changes and improvements to the service have now been implemented following a thorough review. Some of these changes include:-
· Amalgamating noise nuisance within the anti-social behaviour team in order to provide a greater ‘one council’ response to cases.
· Better access to tools from a civil and legal perspective to deal quicker and more effectively with cases.
· Introduction of new telephony to improve response to customer and to provide greater intelligence on types and times of noise complaints.
· Greater partnership working with key groups such as victim support, the police and fire services in order to provide greater support to the customer.
Finally, this Council offers its gratitude to members of the noise nuisance team for their tremendous hard work and dedication in often very challenging and difficult circumstances.