The Council is responsible for keeping the area clean and free of litter.

We will:

• Continuously clean town centres
• Clean main roads on a regular frequency
• Clean other roads on a programmed frequency
• Remove litter and accumulations of rubbish from Council land
• Empty litter bins on a frequency that occurs before they are full
• Help with your locally organised clean-ups
• Sweep kerbed roadways.

You can help us by:

• Being tidy and not dropping your litter, chewing gum, and cigarette ends
• Using the free Household Waste Recycling Centres
• Having waste collection contracts for your business
• Not leaving your dog's mess for others
• Not "Fly Posting" or writing graffiti - it's untidy and illegal
• Not parking where you want us to clean.
• Using the litter bins provided
• Taking your litter home with you
• Ensuring litter is not caused by overfull or uncovered waste or recycling containers waiting for collection at your property

Street Cleansing - Performance

The Street Cleansing Team have achieved an exceptional performance rate over the past 2 years obtaining a 96 % rate of response clearing litter, emptying litter bins and sweeping our streets.

The performance target is to action the service request by the end of the next working day after the request has been received.

Some months show a 100% response time.

The Rapid Response team dealt with 1506 fly tipping requests in 2004/2005 with 96% being dealt with by the end of the next working day of the request.

A further 1924 fly tipping requests were received between April 2005 and March 2006 achieving a total of 98% being dealt with within target.