Clean Highways

DEFRA’s broken promises on trunk road cleanliness survey

On January 6, 2021, in APTRs - All Purpose Trunk Roads, DEFRA, Freedom of Information, Litter Strategy, Local Authorities, by PeterSilverman

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Summary

Three and a half years after the Litter Strategy promise to:

Publish cleanliness reviews of HE trunk roads (APTRs) by local authority.
Set a deadline for underperforming authorities to improve their performance and
Reallocate responsibility for cleaning away from failing local authorities to Highways England.

and, almost 3 years after the survey was carried out, the results have not been published, no deadlines have been set nor any responsibilities reallocated

Instead we are told “The results have been shared with relevant local authorities and will be used in policy development”.

M65 December 2020 “I see this on most slip roads”

On December 14, 2020, in Highways England, by PeterSilverman

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A27 – What is Highways England doing?

On December 10, 2020, in A27 Clean Up Campaign, APTRs - All Purpose Trunk Roads, by PeterSilverman

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An e-mail from the A27 Clean Up Campaign to Highways England cc DfT and MPs. The A27 is an APTR.

Highway Robbery – DBFO Roads in the UK

On December 9, 2020, in DBFO companies, DfT, by PeterSilverman

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I have recently come across this article from 2005. As we shall see the lessons from it were ignored by the DfT.

Ex MP takes the Government to the Aarhus Compliance Committee

On December 3, 2020, in Aarhus, EPA S91 Litter Abatement Orders, Legislation, by PeterSilverman

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In 2014 the then MP for Yardley John Hemming applied to the Magistrates Court for an order under EPA S91 Summary proceedings by persons aggrieved by litter (Litter Abatement Order) requiring Birmingham City Council to remove bags of green waste they had allowed to accumulate on the roadside. See Green waste problem in Birmingham.

The Aarhus Convention

On December 3, 2020, in Aarhus, Legislation, by PeterSilverman

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The Aarhus Convention was set up in 1998 under the auspices of The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

It grants the public rights regarding access to information, public participation and access to justice, in governmental decision-making processes on matters concerning the environment.

HE’s 929 Traffic Officers cannot act on litter

On November 27, 2020, in Highways England, Legislation, Litter fines, by PeterSilverman

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Highways England employ 929 Traffic Officers according to the reply to a Parliamentary question from Labour Shadow Transport Minister, Jim McMahon MP.

With their dash-cams they are ideally equipped to enforce the new Littering from Vehicles Regulations and catch waste transporters spilling their loads onto the motorways.

However: