The council's policy is to clean all 14,000 drains in the city at least once per year.  Some drains are attended more frequently according to their needs and also jetted where necessary.

Essential drain cleaning works can sometimes be quite disruptive, as we may need to suspend resident parking bays to gain access to drains.

Please help us to cause as little disruption as possible by observing parking bay suspensions.

Below is the drain cleaning schedule for December 2011.

We realise suspensions can be a major disruption to residents, so we have introduced a "Return To Use" sticker (see below) which is used to indicate that suspended bays have been returned to normal use.

Further information regarding Return To Use stickers can be found here.