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: phillipchilds@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:

• Abandoned Vehicles
• Dead Animals
• Dog Fouling - Removal
• Fly Tipping
• Litterbins
• Poop Scoop Bins
• Syringes and Needle Exchanges
• Verges