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Street care services

Street care covers a wide range of services, from the litter picking and road sweeping you would normally expect, to cleaning rivers and waterways, removing graffiti, investigating fly posting and fly tipping offences.

Salisbury District Council is determined that a forward thinking approach be taken to the street care service. We are embarking upon an educational and awareness programme to ensure that everybody is fully aware of what they can do to ensure that our environment is managed and maintained comprehensively and sensitively. As such, we would welcome any imaginative ideas you may have with regard to reducing the litter/flyposting/fly tipping/graffiti problems either generally or in a particular area or location.

To assist us in our efforts Salisbury District Council has also recently joined the 'People & Places Partnership', which is run by the same people behind the 'Keep Britain Tidy' group. This gives us access to regular networking meetings with other local authorities, one to one advisor meetings with experts in their respective fields, as well as more general support. For more information on the 'People & Places Partnership' visit www.encams.org

The street care service includes:

• An extensive programme of mechanical and hand sweeping and litter picking
• The cleansing of subways
• The collection and removal of litter and rubbish from designated rivers, waterways and adjoining banks
• The provision and emptying of litter bins - bins are emptied on a regular basis, ranging from four times daily to weekly
• The cleaning of bus shelters in and around Salisbury which fall within the remit of Salisbury District Council
• The removal and disposal of fly tipping and the commencement of legal proceedings where appropriate
• The removal of fly posting and the commencement of legal proceedings where appropriate
• The control of weeds in the highway and adjoining footpaths (this is undertaken as agents for Wiltshire County Council
• The provision of an emergency response facility to deal with major litter / refuse or other street care problems outside of normal working hours

You can find further information on the Environment Agency website at www.environment-agency.gov.uk