Newland Park street sweeping

John Fareham and John Abbott have been seeking improvements to the street sweeping arrangements in Newland Park.

John Fareham says, “A number of local residents came to our last forum-on-the-move but one and raised their concerns about the general standard of street cleaning here and particular about the state of the gutters.  The officers have replied that the crews were instructed to clean when possible Newland Park at the beginning of the day before it started filling with cars. They also stated a revised cleansing schedule was introduced a week or so ago and that the changes are a result of issues and omissions raised by John and myself, local residents and staff. A new performance framework has also, they tell us, been introduced to enable the service to more robustly monitor cleansing staff performance / quality of work undertaken. Newland Park has litter bins emptied, de littered and hand swept as required every Monday and the visited by a mechanical sweeper every 2 weeks on a Friday.We remain concerned, however, about the state of the gutters and will continue to raise this with the officers.”