Many residents have been telling us how messy our streets have become. This is one of many pictures residents have recently sent me.

 

 

But the council is telling us our streets have never been cleaner since they’ve reduced the street sweeping to once every four weeks and litter picking to every other day – which is right, tell us what you think?

 

Out of 10 how clean is your street with1 being  terrible and 10 being fabulously clean – tell me at james.barber@southwark.gov.uk?

Locally in East Dulwich we’ve allocated £20,000 from our Cleaner, Greener, Safer annual capital budget to buy a Green Machine 400 series motorised street sweeping machine.

With this machine the same number of staff can sweep all our streets THREE times every four weeks. This should really make a difference to getting our streets cleaner. We just need to persuade people to drop less litter…

What other ideas should we pursue to make keep our area smarter?