Hounslow Highways Hounslow Highways Cleansing First 5 Years 25 years and beyond www.hounslowhighways.org

What services do Hounslow Highways provide? Roads and footpath maintenance Street Cleansing Fly tip Removal Routine Maintenance of assets Emergency and Winter Services Tree Maintenance and Grass/Horticulture Highway Strategy Highway Safety Inspections Street Works – Permits and Licenses Environmental Education and Management Enforcement for Environment and Highway offences Defence against Public Insurance Claims Enforcement against Illegal Crossovers Asset Inventory Management Customer Service

Routine cleanse of FW/ CW Clear cleansing hazards Fence to Fence Routine cleanse of FW/ CW Sweep Leaf Fall Remove flytips Empty the bins Clear cleansing hazards Remove Grafitti

First 4 ½ years – day to day £86 m Capital invested in renewing the roads and streetlights Cleaner streets - Bottom quartile in London in 2012 moving to top quartile Clean 1,000 km of road length a month 2,753 network inspections per month 1,000% increase in enforcement of littering and dumping of rubbish 1,293 fly tip jobs completed a month, with approx. 460 additional incidents attended to proactively every month Behavioural Change Flytipping and littering account for 60% of everything we do. Increase recycling

How do we Change Behaviours Community clean-up days – working with the communities 312 Joint Action Days Graduates and apprenticeships – over 30 apprenticeships and over 50 opportunities for the next generation Junior Citizens – supported over 7,000 children with a Met Police initiative Enabling Enterprise – 16 visits, 480 children School visits on educating students on the environment Supporting National Citizenship Service Awarded Quality Improvement 2016 By Keep Britain Tidy Team of the Year by Keep Britain Tidy in 2017 Local workforce – we live and work where you do Enforcement …….

Enforcement

What we have done in all of Hounslow Fly tip enquiries = 41,633 Inspections = (Env & Highways) on average 800 per month FPNS issued since Jan 2013 Highways = 800 Streetworks = 6,889 Littering/Flytipping = 2,677

What we have done in Osterley & Spring Grove Fly tip enquiries = 2,590 Inspections = (Env & Highways) on average 40 per month FPNS issued since Jan 2013 Littering/Flytipping = 48 on average a month

DEEP CLEANSE PROGRAMME

What is Deep Cleanse? A holistic cleanse of a street or road It is intensively resourced and involves; Street Cleansing resources, Gully Crew, Traffic Management Resource Community Environment Officers Street Cleansing team: Area Supervisor coordinates the resources on site Dedicated crew places out TM, Cleans the road, Removes waste and removes signage Community Environment Officers assess: Illegally dumped Waste Overhanging vegetation enforcement Grade of the road (LEQ) before and after the deep cleanse operation

LEAF FALL

Leaf Fall Programme HH maintain 11,300 of the street trees in the borough. The leaf clearing programme has been compiled from past experience and data gathered from leaf-fall patterns Extra resources have been deployed to clear leaves Each ward in the borough will be visited between October and January in addition to the normal cleansing routine.

Our Challenges/Opportunities Behaviour Flytipping and littering account for 60% of everything we do Increase recycling Education so message is consistent through Joint Action Days, Junior Citizen etc., Enforcement of consistent offenders where evidence is obtainable Parked cars obstructing cleansing

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