Street and estate cleaning
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Impact on street and estate cleaning
Find out about our reduced estate cleaning service below.
Daily tasks
- cleaning/disinfecting of all touch points, eg lift buttons, door handles, door push plates, handrails etc
- spot mopping of all internal communal areas
- chute fed bin rotation
- removal of bulky waste/fly tip from all communal areas
- removal of litter and dog fouling from external communal areas
Weekly tasks
- full sweep and mop of lifts, lobbies, stairs and internal corridors
As required
- unblocking of chutes
- graffiti removal
A reduced street cleaning service including:
- removal of bulky waste/fly tip
- graffiti removal
- daily cleaning of main retail areas/town centres
- twice weekly litter picking/removal of dog fouling from residential roads
Grounds and tree maintenance services will be running as normal.
You can help us by:
- not approaching our cleaners while they're working; we should all of us keep a minimum of 2 metres away from everyone else to reduce the risk of passing on infection; and this includes our cleaners as well - for all our protection
- making sure your refuse and recycling is placed in the correct containers - our recycling crews can’t collect contaminated bins
- if your waste is collected from the landing, leave your waste out from 6am on the day of collection only
- not calling the council to report a missed collection, or log a missed collection online unless absolutely necessary; this can take up capacity and slow down our systems to cause further service delays
- putting litter into bins
If your household is self isolating
Households that are self isolating should follow the UK Governments stay at home advice. This requires you to:
- store personal waste such as tissues and disposable cleaning cloths within disposable rubbish bags
- place these bags into another bag, tied securely and keep it separate from other waste
- these bags should be put aside for a minimum of 72 hours (3 days) before you put them in your general waste bin
- you cannot take this type of waste to the Household Waste Recycling and Reuse Centre
Page last updated: 09 February 2021
