1. Hounslow Highways Hounslow Highways Cleansing First 5 Years
25 years and beyond

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 …….

6. Enforcement

7. 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

8. 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

9. DEEP CLEANSE PROGRAMME

10. 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

11. LEAF FALL

12. 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.

13. 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

14. Thank you