Managing Fitzrovia’s Street Environment

Street Management

We have regular meetings with the Camden Borough Monitoring Officer to discuss hot spots for waste and cleansing and to find resolutions to these issues. The services delivered by Camden are monitored against their baseline and where there appear to be shortfalls we work with the Borough Monitoring Officer to rectify these  or raise them with the Council.

We aim to:-

• Identify and reduce the level of flytipping
• Ensure that waste is presented on the street for collection correctly and not spread along the street
• That bins, both litter and recycling,are emptied regularly and waste is not allowed to build up
• That areas of paving with heavy staining and grime are identified and cleansed
• That street furniture is clean and fit for use
• That rough sleepers and beggars are reported to the right agencies to ensure that they can be signposted to the relevant help.

The graph below provides a breakdown of the tasking issues attended to by our Ambassadors in the period from August 2015 to January 2016.

Ambassadors 

Over the month of January the Ambassadors preformed a variety of tasks from Business Visits (crime, networking and waste survey), CBAC data registration, Reporting waste issues and collections, litter picking in The Warren and Crabtree Fields to reporting begging and rough sleepers.

Reporting Lethal Highs

The team was briefed by Trading Standards regarding lethal highs and the reporting of such to Trading Standards.

Street Cleansing

Our programme of weekly cleanses continues, with the following locations cleaned in January.

18 January 2016

Whitfield Gardens paved area

315 sq mtrs

Before                                                             After 

25 January 2016

Tottenham Court Road M&S to Oliver Bonus

148 sq mtrs

There is a substantial build-up of grime and dirt especially around street furniture and alfresco dining areas. To supplement this service we are also working with our contractors as to the best way to deal with areas which get dirty and grimy more regularly such as where food waste and rubbish sacks are often placed.

The street cleansing programme continues each Monday night. Our Ambassadors will visit premises operating adjacent to the area to be cleaned and will make sure that the managers are aware of the cleansing.

To view the full Operations Report please visit the Members Area. If you require access to be set up please contact the team.

If you have had changes to your staff contacts, please let us know by emailing us or telephoning 020 7755 3192.