Thursday 15 December 2022

Street cleansing road categories explained - are you DH, DM or DL? This will determine the frequency of manual sweeping

 

The documentation for tonight's delayed Scrutiny Commttee regarding changes in recycling and street cleansing contains the above table.

I asked for clarification of the DH, DM and DL categories of zones.

Brent Council responded:

The terms 'high, medium and low' used in a cleansing perspective come from the old Best Value199 and National Indicator 195 classifications for land use types. 

Below is a link to the Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse (COPLAR) which covers this:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/834331/pb11577b-cop-litter1.pdf

High obstruction would include blocks of flats including tower blocks or large complexes

Medium would involve smaller communal dwellings such as low rise blocks or mid-size complexes

Low would mainly be free standing houses, semi's or terraces.

Typically the more homes there are within an area, the more resources are required to maintain it.

My conclusion is that most suburban streets would be reduced to a minimum monthly cleansing frequency unless 'intelligence' (residents' informing the council) triggered a special clean.

I asked for a list roads by zone classication so readers could identify how their road woul be affected, The answer:

We are not able to share a list of all roads by zone classification at this stage as this is commercially sensitive and subject to an ongoing live procurement process.

The Scrutiny Committee can be viewed on Live Stream HERE from 6.30pm

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Watching Scrutiny. Why is it the Cabinet Member needs to read out their very short and lacking any detail presentation? It seems she doesn't know what she's talking about having to read out prepared statements with no substance.

Anonymous said...

Which Cabinet member was that?

Paul Lorber said...

Ability to read out statements prepared by Council Officers is the key part of a Cabinet Members' role.

But more seriously did you spot the response to the question from my Lib Dem Colleague when the officer admitted that the proposed changes will inevitably lead to less clean streets in Brent.

Not good news when streets are already dirty now. Also no indication of how many street sweepers will lose their jobs!

Anonymous said...

Council officers don’t live here - they live as far away as Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire and Surrey - why should they care about the streets in Brent???