Street care and cleaning
The cleanliness of the streets in our environment makes a big
difference to our quality of life.
The Council cleans all streets in the borough removing litter
and dog fouling, maintaining verges and roadside flowerbeds,
removing graffiti, and clearing drains and gullies. Use
the contact details to the right to report problems with street
care and cleaning.
Did you know?
- We maintain and empty approximately 1,200 litter bins
- Clean 746 kilometres of highways and footpaths
- Maintain 230,000 m2 of shrub beds.
- Maintain 543,500 m2 of grass verges and open
spaces
In addition to this:
- We are responding and investigating incidents of illegal
dumping in under 36 hours on average.
- This year we expect to remove up to 1,600 tons of illegally
dumped rubbish.
- In partnership with Greater Manchester Police Environmental
Management have removed over 500 abandoned vehicles in the past two
years.
- The majority of the 500+ fixed penalty tickets issued in
2006/07 for littering and dog fouling were served by volunteers who
have trained to act as wardens and carry out regular patrols under
temporary secondments to the enforcement team.
Please help us by
- Not dropping litter
- Telling us about overflowing bins
- Reporting graffiti and flyposting