Beautiful Thanet

What does this mean?

• Local Environmental Quality: Working with partners to maintain the appearance of streets and public areas across the district and improve public perception.
• Quality Open Spaces: Maintaining our beaches, foreshores, parks and other open spaces to a high standard, whilst encouraging local people to take an active role in preserving the natural environment.
• Waste Reduction: Reducing the amount of waste produced and ensuring that high proportions are reused or recycled.

Why is this important?

• Studies have shown that improving the local environment supports regeneration;
• Clean beaches, parks and streets help attract visitors to the area;
• The council’s street cleansing and waste and recycling services are seen by local people as the main services that the council provides;
• Although street cleanliness in Thanet is amongst the best in the country, local peoples perceptions do not reflect this.

How will we measure success?

What are we going to do?

The following projects are the key pieces of work we are going to carry out over the next three years, over and above our general day to day activities.

Local Environmental Quality

• Review the work of the cleansing service and our partners to ensure that our streets are as clean as possible within current resource limits (Start: Jan 09 - Finish: Oct 09)
• Use the Environmental Action Programme to improve the appearance of streets and public areas (Start: Apr 09 - Finish: Mar 11)
• Carry out a co-ordinated campaign to change public perception and attitudes towards littering, dog-fouling, graffiti and vandalism (Start: Jul 08 - Finish: Mar 10)
• Maximising enforcement activity for littering and dog fouling, ensuring that all fines issued are progressed to achieve payment or prosecution (Start: Apr 09 - Finish: Dec 09)

Quality Open Spaces

• Improve one park in each of the three towns (Start: Apr 09 - Finish: Mar 11)
• Encourage community and voluntary groups to take on the management of particular open areas (Start: Apr 09 - Finish: Mar 11)

Waste minimisation

• Deliver a programme to encourage waste reduction and increase use of current recycling facilities (Start: Apr 08 - Finish: Mar 11)
• Increase domestic recycling levels to 40% by 2011, including seeking funding to roll out wheeled bins to all suitable properties (Start: Apr 07 - Finish: Mar 11)
• Develop improved and cost effective waste management services across East Kent (Start: Apr 08 - Finish: Apr 13)

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Corporate Improvement Manager

Email: mailto:sophie.chadwick@thanet.gov.uk

Tel: 01843 577180