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Enterprises Dirty Streets. Jot them down here.

Ealing Council's contractor, Enterprise (Amey), is still failing to keeping our streets clean. Please use this forum to post streets not cleaned on the same day as the refuse/recycling and or the scheduled day. It should provide a slightly more accurate picture rather then the 80/90% statistics which are rated clean every week which we all know is not true. Essex Road 4th and 8th of July for the fourth time this yearShalimar Road 8th July

Bob Crossley ● 4812d8 Comments

Grafton Rd as of today, dirty nappies, used sanitary pads. glass, and food.

Nikki Howard ● 4812d

Avenue Gardens was swept, but the green bags were then left on the pavement and are still there, gathering new rubbish of their own...

Lorna Dodd ● 4812d

Report uncollected rubbish etc here:http://www.ealing.gov.uk/site/scripts/home_info.php?homepageID=9

Tom Forde ● 4811d

Berrymead Gardens today and yesterday, there was sheets of someone's revision on the pavement!

Lucy Walker ● 4808d

Ditto with Berrymead Gardens.  Especially all the rubbish left at the bottom of the street every day.

Tony Crumpton ● 4808d

Grafton/Goldsmith Rds Black bags and Food waste missedEssex Rd Garden waste missed for fourth time

Bob Crossley ● 4807d

I have just obtained the latest street cleaning numbers.  A third (34%) of Ealing streets were still unacceptably dirty in June.  15 months into Enterprise’s contract and still the contractor is nowhere near getting to the required standard of cleaning 95% of streets to the national recognised Grade A standard, ie only 5% not good enough.  Enterprise is 7 times worse than it should be. The graph shows the rate of Grade A cleaned streets first time (in blue).  The council then checks about 20% of the streets (down from 50%), the contractor is asked to reclean the failed ones and the council inspects some of those a second time.  The red line is the rate at which that minority of streets is Grade A.  Amazingly after two cleans 17% of the failed streets were not good enough.  In June 77% of streets were never looked at, statistically they were 34% dirty and were never looked at again.  The blue line is the set of figures that most accurately match residents' perception of the service they get.  The red line is really just an artefact of the not very effective performance management regime that the council is using to attempt to manage Enterprise.  Both lines show a marked deterioration under the new contract.  Earlier this year Labour spokesman Bassam Mahfouz was claiming that Ealing streets were 99% clean.  This was a sleight of hand.  Mahfouz thinks he can take a number out of context and fool people if he repeats enough.  For two months in January and February the 20% of streets that were inspected eventually got up to 99% clean after the dirty ones got a second clean.  20% of the remaining 80% of streets were unacceptably dirty, were never inspected and remained dirty.  Since the winter months spring growth has highlighted Mahouz’s lying with numbers. 

Phil Taylor ● 4796d

Phil, thanks for that.  Thus the need for all residents justifiably dissatisfied with the service they are receiving to report everything to Ealing Council.In order that they are included in the figures below.So, I urge all residents to report everything that is not right.

dee cook ● 4796d