Belfast City Council should take immediate action to end suspected damaging environmental practices at unregulated car washes across the city, a councillor says.
At the council’s most recent Strategic Policy and Resources Committee meeting, DUP representative Gareth Spratt demanded action from City Hall to end the alleged environmental damage being caused by the pop-up unregulated enterprises across the city.
He made the appeal after it emerged that a report into unregulated car washes commissioned by Belfast City Council after a DUP motion in November 2019 had been “closed” after officers concluded “BCC have no responsibility for regulating or licensing hand car washes and valet services”. The council also could not give details about the number of unregulated car washes in the city.
