Corporate Plan, Chapter 3: Our Corporate Priorities

Clean, green and safe

The Clean, Green and Safe agenda demonstrates that we are aiming to deliver positive sustained improvements against the most significant priorities identified by our residents, including crime, fear of crime and clean streets.

Ensuring Barnet is a clean, green and safe borough is fundamental to improving quality of life.  Research shows that the quality of people’s surroundings substantially impacts upon levels of crime and disorder and how safe they feel.

We are committed to ensuring that all our neighbourhoods are safe, clean and green. Working closely with the police, we will continue improving our local environment, by tackling issues such as littering, fly-tipping and graffiti and by reducing crime and anti-social behaviour.

Our Clean, Green and Safe priority reflects our commitment to a sustainable community through minimising waste, increasing recycling and reducing energy use and CO2 emissions. This way we can preserve the environment for future generations.

Objectives for 2008/9 and beyond

  • Improve street and environmental cleanliness
  • Deliver waste management targets: reduce waste volume and increase recycling and composting across the borough
  • Improve Premier Parks
  • Improve energy efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions
  • Work with partners to promote and improve community safety
  • Reduce the harm caused by illegal drugs and alcohol
  • Tackle anti-social behaviour.

Priority Improvement Initiatives

Improve street and environmental cleanliness

  • Following on from the successful signature cleansing service launch we continue  to designate hotspot areas and ensure these receive dedicated resources to  achieve an improved level of cleanliness. This will include the provision of new sweeping machinery, as well as extra resources during the autumn to deal even  more effectively with  leaf fall
  • Deliver a step change in waste management targets by reducing waste and increasing recycling and composting across the borough
  • Improve the recycling service
  • Increase in recycling rates, by offering at kerbside, the recycling of two new materials from autumn 2008 (plastic bottles and cardboard)
  • Reduction in non-recycling waste stream.


Improve Premier Parks

  • To increase the number of Green Flag parks by one each year. The park for 2008/09 is Edgwarebury Park.


Improve energy efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions

  • Develop and adopt Carbon Reduction Action Plan for implementation from 2008/9 by May 2008
  • Work with the Energy Saving Trust to help the council to reduce both the community’s and its own CO2 emissions
  • Improvements in the transport fleet as part of the new contract award: October 2008.


Work with partners to promote and improve community safety

  • Implement the new strategy for crime, disorder and substance misuse and review through annual Strategic Assessment
  • Implement a co-ordinated communication plan
  • Continue to take action through the Multi-Agency Problem Solving Group
  • Implement recommendations of the scrutiny review of hate crime
  • Deliver a co-ordinated response to licensing issues.


Reduce the harm caused by illegal drugs and alcohol

  • Implement revised drug and alcohol strategy and action plans.

Tackle anti-social behaviour

  • Review anti-social behaviour strategy and implement action plan.

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