Cleaner, Greener Streets
Street cleaning
Congratulations to Southwark Council for the resources they are putting
into keeping the borough°s streets clean. We now have a street sweeper
dedicated to our small locality, who is here every day keeping the pavements
and streets clean. We hope that he will get some assistance in the autumn
when the leaves fall!
Household rubbish
With the monthly skip, weekly paper recycling collection by CRISP, and even
possibly home composting, the amount of domestic waste that each household
produces should be smaller.
Please remember to put rubbish on doorsteps or pavements ONLY on the evening
before collection day (Tuesdays for most, Mondays for Falmouth Road) č
preferably after dark. Leaving rubbish out on other days attracts animals
(dogs cats, rats and č increasingly č foxes) to break into the bags, makes
unnecessary work for the street sweeper and makes our estate look very
unattractive.
Please keep your rubbish inside or in your back yard until then. Derek Brown
of Cluttons has worked hard to make sure that all tenants have an
appropriate dustbin or wheelie bin for their rubbish. Some residents in long
leasehold properties have told us that they do not have bins or any storage
area outside their flats. If this is so for you, please contact us (on 020
07726 305325 or info@tnra.net) so that we can investigate.
Trinity Street trees
One Trinity Street resident is concerned about the state of the trees and
reports what she has done about it:
I called Southwark Council to ask them
whether they knew that some of the trees in Trinity Street are in a bad way.
The one outside no 32 has lost virtually all of its leaves.
Oliver Stutter, direct line 020 7525 2090, said they do indeed: the problem
was caused by the long drought in Feb/March of this year and also by the
over-zealous gritting/salting that took place earlier. They will monitor the
trees and if, come October, they haven't recovered, the council will remove
and replace them.
I also asked about the possible damage that might be caused to building
foundations if large tree-root systems were removed and drainage affected.
He said that would be unlikely, as our bit of London is not on heavy clay
but rather on sedimentary ground, but that if subsidence did result then the
council would be liable. |