Cleaned every week..?

For the third time in just over a month, I've had to write to Wandsworth Council about the state of the Alton estate.

At last week's Roehampton Council report-back, residents spent the first half of the meeting berating councillors and housing department officers over the poor quality of the cleaning service.

At that point, I'd already received two replies from the Council insisting that every block on the Alton was cleaned once a week - you can download the schedule of cleaning chores they say should be carried out here. I wrote a few days ago on this blog why, even if that were the case, big blocks like those on Highcliffe Drive need far more cleaning than small ones.

Well, this weekend my campaign team and I were out and about in Highcliffe Drive - again - to see whether the reality lived up to the council's rhetoric. The photo above - and all the others here - show that it does not. And these were from just three of the five blocks Binley House, Charcot House and Dunbridge House!

And it's no excuse to say that the major redecoration work to these blocks has hampered cleaning - I'm sure it has but the stains, the dust, the damage to rubbish chutes, the flytipping and the general grubbiness prove that these areas have been in this state for weeks, months - maybe even years.

On this evidence, I think residents would be grateful for their block to be cleaned even the once a week the council says it is.



























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