Street Cleansing
We empty over 850 litter and dog bins and have responsibility
for the scheduled cleansing of specified public highways in excess
of 2,000 miles. This includes all carriageways, pavements and
verges within the town centres of Evesham, Droitwich, Pershore and
Broadway, together with all other roads within their surrounding
built-up areas.
Town centres are cleansed twice daily and all litter bins
emptied at the same time. Other areas are cleansed either
weekly or fortnightly. In addition all villages, trunk roads,
and A & B class roads are cleansed to a schedule ranging from
fortnightly, up to every three months.
All roads are cleansed to standards laid down by the
Environmental Protection Act 1999 using A - D grading, where D
indicates heavy litter levels. Regular inspections are
carried out to ensure that standards are met following cleansing.
Where levels fall below an acceptable level street cleansing
operatives have a specified period to re-instate to Grade A.
Every four months inspections are carried out of three hundred
sections of public highway, selected from all parts of the
district, including footpaths and open spaces, under Best Value
Performance Review 1999. This is as part of Central
Government's 'Cross Cutting Review on Improving Public Space'.
The standard of cleanliness places us above the national
average for street cleanliness.
The cost of the street cleansing service for a council tax band
D property is £27.64 per year, or 53p per week. This includes
cleansing of town centres, residential areas, villages, mechanical
sweeping of main routes, litter picking of grass verges, and the
collection of fly tipping and dead animals from public land.
Reporting A Problem:
Even with regular inspections, with such a high number of miles
within the area, it is not always possible to quickly identify
where problems occur. We therefore value the help of the
general public in reporting to us any public area that has become
littered. This will enable early action to be taken to
rectify the matter.
If you wish to report that any street in Wychavon is badly
littered, please contact:
Phillip Childs
Client Services
Telephone: 01386 565018 (9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday)
Email: client.services@wychavon.gov.uk
Action will be taken to ensure that it is restored to a good
standard within the specified response times applicable to that
area.
See also:
For Further Information Contact
Client Services
Telephone: 01386 565018 between 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday.
Email: client.services@wychavon.gov.uk.
