Purpose

To implement the Street
cleansing Methodology after public consultation

Content

1.   
Approved the following changes to the current street
cleansing service in Royal Greenwich that were consulted on as part
of the “Keeping Greenwich Clean and Tidy” boroughwide
public consultation (as summarised in Appendix D):
•        Mobile teams
to barrows would improve individual accountability for individual
performance.
•        Variable
frequency of sweeping according to speed of degradation of public
realm by using route optimisation software and local knowledge to
identify these areas.
•        The borough
would be divided into 8 defined areas (as per Appendix B). Four
Operational Supervisors would each be responsible for 2 areas, a
town centre and a small mechanical broom. Each area would have a
defined number of barrow beats assigned to it and a team leader
responsible for collecting sweepers bags, empty litter bins,
collect fly-tipping and reporting poor standards of
cleansing.
•        2 boroughwide
teams operating in the afternoon and evening to address
“hotspots” across the borough.
•        Larger
capacity vehicles would reduce the current overloading   issue while reducing the amount of vehicle
movement, fuel consumption and carbon emissions.
•        Separating
street cleansing arisings to maximise recycling would help the
service to achieve our recycling targets while reducing waste
disposal costs.
•        Improvements
in service delivery by ensuring that schedules are completed fully
and on time, 7 days a week.  This would
require making amendments to staff terms and conditions to ensure
weekend and bank holiday schedules have the necessary number of
staff working, and therefore this part of the proposal would be
subject to the Council’s Organisational Change and Redundancy
Policy and consultation with affected staff.
•        The seasonal
team would allow the service to carry out seasonal tasks such as
leafing without the need for additional agency resources reducing
the costs for the department
 

2.   
Approved the following additional enhancements to
the proposed street cleansing service, the first of which was
developed following feedback from residents, businesses and
visitors via the “Keeping Greenwich Clean and Tidy”
boroughwide public consultation (as summarised in Appendix
D):
 
2.1.       
Changes to town centre hours – with the
information gathered from the public consultation we have
determined that town centre peak times are between 9am to 6pm; due
to this information the town centre shift times will be amended to
allow for more staff presence during the peak times.
 
2.2     The
introduction of an Operational Health and Safety Manager post to
ensure oversight and maintaining of the health and safety
performance of the service on an on-going basis.
 
 

3.   
Noted that, if approved, the Council’s
Organisational Change and Redundancy Policy will need to be applied
and affected staff will need to be consulted on the proposals and
have the opportunity to be considered for redeployment within the
scope of the policy.