Decision details

Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council and Tunbridge Wells Borough Council have commissioned a new kerbside model of waste collection to significantly increase recycling and composting rates. To provide financial support for this revised collection system, an enabling payment scheme has been devised which reflects disposal cost reductions achieved, shared equally between the County Council and Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council/Tunbridge Wells Borough Council

As Cabinet Member for Planning, Highways, Transport and Waste I agree to approve KCC entering into an Inter Authority Agreement (IAA) with TMBC and TWBC to increase levels of recycling and reduce disposal costs for KCC. To encourage improvement, savings will be equally shared between respective Collection and Disposal Authorities as performance payments. This is to be the policy approach in all new Waste Partnership Agreements with Collection Authorities.