Issue - meetings
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
Meeting: 01/07/2026 - Cabinet Panel on the Environment (Item 7)
7 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION 
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To receive petitions, comments and questions from the public.
Decision:
In accordance with Standing Order 4.8.10(c), one question was submitted by a member of the public by the required deadline date set out in the Constitution.
(A) Sewage Discharge Point into Norton Common
Jessica Crighton to Councillor Amy Allen, Executive Member for Environment.
Minutes:
Audio recording – 01 hours 33 minutes 32 seconds
In accordance with Standing Order 4.8.10(c), one question had been submitted by a member of the public by the required deadline set out in the Constitution.
The Chair informed those present that both the member of the public and Executive Member for Environment were unable to attend the meeting, and that they had agreed to read out the question on behalf of the member of the public, as follows:
(A) Sewage Discharge Point into Norton Common
‘There appears to be a sewage discharge point within Norton Common into the Pix Brook with sewage discharges by Anglian Water. Will the Council investigate why sewage is allowed to be discharged into a public park and if there’s anything that can be done to stop it?’
Councillor Val Bryant provided the following response:
‘Yes, we will investigate. As a Hitchin Bearton Councillor, I go to the water treatment works on Bury Mead Road quite frequently and it has improved over the years. I think that it is important that they actually visited the sites with water treatment plants, and made sure of the chalk streams in the vicinity and that the staff in the treatment plants did so as well so they had a clear view of where their water was going. Then they could look at the amounts that were being discharged within legal limits and so on. But the answer to that is yes, certainly, they would follow that up.’