The future of Barnet’s street services could be drastically improved as council seeks to make “significant savings”.

Barnet Council is aiming to re-use, recycle or compost 50 per cent of local waste to help reduce the amount of waste going to a landfill.

It also hopes to manage the parks and open spaces and to secure investment in public spaces, as well as promoting community involvement.

An environment committee, that will take place at Hendon town hall next week, will discuss four shortlisted options that could potentially change the way Barnet Council delivers its services.

A report titled ‘street scene alternative delivery model’ recommended four options including an in-house option, an outsourced one using a private company, shared one and a local authority trading option .

Chairman of environment committee Cllr Dean Cohen said: “Our street scene services are popular with our residents, but we need to recycle more, improve our green spaces and make our town centres clean, attractive and inviting to visitors.

“Whilst doing this we also need to make significant savings. The only way we can do this is to improve our approach and make our street scene service the best it can be.”

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