Cleaner and Safer Streets

Over the past four years we reversed Tory cuts to street cleaning budgets and improved the cleanliness and safety of our streets and roads. Building on successes like our “Clean and Green” weeks, a 50% increase in gully-cleaning, investments in street cleaning, litter picking, graffiti cleaning, and moving from chemical-based to manual weed clearing, we will:

• Double A and B road litter picking.

• Bring in a comprehensive street cleaning programme where every residential street is inspected for litter every fortnight with litter picking as needed.

• Continuing our war on litter and fly-tipping.

• Deliver a solution for weed removal that does not use chemicals but ensures weeds are well-controlled.

• Roll out more public recycling bins, alongside an expansion in the number of litter bins.

• Introduce common waste and recycling collections in the city centre.

• Replace household recycling boxes with ones with more effective lids.

• Continue to press the government for greater powers to control gull numbers.

• Ask the government to make councils responsible for the enforcement of speeding and ensure they are given the resources to achieve it.

• Provide a greater level of investment in fixing our broken roads that gradually improves our network of roads.

• Give higher priority to fixing and improving broken pavements and urban footpaths, and improving wheelchair accessibility, also ensuring enough street lighting in urban areas so our streets feel safe at night.

• As new LED street lighting is introduced make sure that it is both a colour that is nature-friendly (i.e. towards the redder end of the white spectrum) and directional so that it points down towards street.