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Getting Cleaner with Southwark Cleaning

Your cleanest ever SouthwarkSouthwark is now one of the top four cleanest boroughs in London with:

  • improved rubbish collections
  • a 24/7 street cleaning service
  • an education programme about the impact of litter
  • an effective and robust enforcement team.

Let’s continue to work together to keep it this way.


How does the service work?

All Southwark roads have been categorised according to how busy they are and entered onto a cleaning schedule so they can be managed more effectively. We've also introduced set response times for specific types of problems, for example:

  • Fly Tips, removed within 24 hours of being reported 
  • Graffiti, Racist/Obscene, removed within four working hours
  • Graffiti, Standard, removed within 24 hours of being reported.


Last month, in May 2009, we:

  • cleaned 122 reports of graffiti within 24 hours
  • cleaned 256 reports of dog fouling within 1 hour
  • removed 4 reports of fly posting within 24 hours 
  • cleared 369 reported fly tips within 24 hours.


Report envirocrimes!

Play your part and help make Southwark a cleaner, greener borough by reporting any environmental issues in your neighbourhood, from litter to graffiti. 

See it, report it: call 020 7525 2000 (24 hours) or report it online.

Street cleaning

Southwark Cleaning are looking at how to improve street cleaning to an even higher standard and are looking at using a different method of street cleaning.

Unfortunately the street service search has been suspended temporarily whilst we collate a brand new schedule. We are sorry for any inconveniance this may cause.

Estate cleaning

We've introduced a regular cleaning schedule to keep our estates spotless

  • General Areas, swept daily
  • Stairs, swept daily and washed twice per week
  • Lifts, swept and washed daily
  • Balconies, swept daily and washed twice per week
  • Bin Chambers, swept daily and washed weekly
  • Fly tips, removed constantly


Grounds maintenance

  • Some of our 600 strong street cleaning forceGrass, cut every two weeks 
  • Shrub beds, maintained monthly
  • Litter, picked daily
  • Seasonal works as appropriate dependant on species


Contact us

Southwark cleaning team
Tel: 020 7525 2000
environment@southwark.gov.uk
Manor Place Depot
30-34 Penrose Street
London
SE17 3DW





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