Liverpool Council has shelved plans worth hundreds of thousands of pounds to charge private landlords for pest control.
As part of its budget setting process for this year, the local authority had agreed a plan to ask private landlords and social housing providers to pay for treatments in a bid to raise £200,000 a year. Emails seen by the ECHO from Liverpool Council show that the scheme has now quietly been dropped.
Introduction of the additional charge was first discussed in October last year as the council sought to set its annual budget. The fees were included as part of an initial package totalling more than £18m, including the controversial green bin charge.
