Help clean Sydenham high street - 11am - 1pm Sat 26 June

[Chris Best]

Lewisham Council has launched Cleaner Lewisham and we are relying on support from businesses and the community to help.

We are passionate about providing a cleaner, greener Lewisham and encouraging civic pride for everyone who lives, works and studies in Lewisham. We are looking at the ways that we manage waste and also how to reduce the amount that is produced in the borough. The Council is responsible for effectively managing waste and wants to improve the local area. Through this campaign, we want to raise awareness of the effects of littering and fly-tipping and to try to change behaviour.

A key part of this campaign is hosting community events to clean up local areas. By working together, we can reduce the amount of litter on our streets, encourage residents to use the street litter bins and make better use of the waste services available.

On Saturday we have a clean Sydenham high street event - meeting at 11am outside the Sydenham Centre. Please come along and join your local councillors and other volunteers to help clean up our high street by removing flyposting from the granite upstands and working with traders to remove the shop shutter stickers.

You will be provided with a hi-viz vest with the Cleaner Lewisham logo along with gloves and graffiti wipes. Please wear suitable clothing and footwear.

Your help will really make a difference to our high street!

[Parker1970]

And yet for those of us that live on the high street (above shops), we order Recycling bags on the lewisham council website and we never get them. I have not had recycling bags for over a year...

[Chris Best]

Please send me am email - cllr_chris.best@lewisham.gov.uk - with your address and I will ask officers to bring a supply tomorrow so we can drop off. I know we had problems with the supplier and trust this is now resolved.

[Parker1970]

Thank you Chris! Email sent.