Proposals to create a \u201clitter-cam\u201d to fine careless motorists and members of the public who discard rubbish is being discussed by council officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The idea was put forward after the state of the roads in the South East of the city were described as \u2018appalling\u2019 and \u2018falling to pieces\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Thursday February 29, a ward council meeting took place, discussing many environmental issues raised by councillors and members of the public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One issue was the poor state of the roads around Sheffield, left covered in litter from vehicles, as the main roads are only cleaned in the summer months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jill Green, a member of the public who attended the meeting via zoom said: \u201cBy this time of year, the sides of some of the main roads are absolutely appalling. It\u2019s an absolute disgrace and gives a really bad impression when people are driving out to our area\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ms Green said 18-month ago she proposed installing a \u2018litter cam\u2019 which would essentially send a fine to people caught littering along main roads to battle the issue, but was told it would be too costly at \u00a315k.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Councillor Ian Horner said one company said they\u2019d install the cameras free of charge on the condition that they kept 50% of the fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Councillor Horner said: \u201cThese things take a lot of time, but the officers do say they\u2019re in discussion about it. We all know how sensitive fines are, so the council would have to have a water-tight legal agreement to do this, but I certainly think it\u2019s a good idea. I agree with Jill, if you look at the A57, it\u2019s not a good impression of Sheffield and we need to deal with it. I\u2019m certainly not going to give up on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another member of the public at the meeting said: \u201cI asked Councillor Otten to come and take a look at the state of the roads in Woodhouse, the ones that are falling to pieces as they are in most other parts of the city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When later being asked a question about pollution, Councillor Crossland, Chair of the meeting said: \u201cThese things are frustratingly slow. Everybody thinks we have a lot of power. As backbench, more local, councillors it\u2019s hard for us to really make a difference in our area\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Proposals to create a \u201clitter-cam\u201d to fine careless motorists and members of the public who discard rubbish is being discussed by council officers. The idea was put forward after the state of the roads in the South East of the city were described as \u2018appalling\u2019 and \u2018falling to pieces\u2019. On Thursday February 29, a ward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152,154,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-council-2","category-environment-2","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}