Special Cleansing Services
In addition to the normal sweeping methods, Westminster employs a number of specialist vehicles and systems for keeping the City's streets clean.
Mechanical Sweeping
The mechanical motorised street cleaning fleet is led by our City Go pavement cleaners. These are used chiefly on major thoroughfares in Westminster and are included both in the scheduled sweeping programme, and the normal cleansing routine. We also operate a small number of larger street and road sweeping machines, manufactured by Schmidt and Johnston. These vehicles are expected to work day and night, cleaning an average of 5,000 miles of street each, every year!
Street Washing
Westminster has some unique problems which often mean that many streets need regular washing, including the large concentration of pubs, cafes and fast food outlets, as well as the problems associated with a large homeless population.
Westminster also operates a programme of deep cleaning, which removes carbon, stains and chewing gum from prestige walking routes and returns the pavement back to its original quality. This is particularly useful in preparing Westminster for unique special events when the eyes of the world are upon us.
Specials
The Street Cleansing service additionally operates a number of other pieces of equipment, including gritters, 'golf cart' style sweepers' vehicles and caged vehicles for removing the recognisable green bags used by Westminster's sweepers.
We also have the 'cantonet' machine - a vacuum type cleansing machine capable of removing difficult items of litter between pavement cracks - such as cigarette butts
Contact us
If you need more information or would like to make a complaint about the standard of cleanliness of a street please contact us by:
Phone: The Environment Action Line on 020 7641 2000
Online: Report a problem online. Please note that the response time for emails is one working day so it may be better to report this issue immediately by phone.
In Writing: Street Cleansing, Westminster City Council, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP
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