Grot spot crackdown in Town ward

by Hammersmith and Fulham Press Office
16/01/2008

The residents of Fulham’s Town ward are the latest to benefit the council’s concerted campaign to rid local streets of unsightly mess.

THE residents of Fulham’s Town ward are the latest to benefit the council’s concerted campaign to rid local streets of unsightly mess.

The campaign targets specific wards, street by street, and sees to it that regular intensive cleaning is carried out where ‘grot’ is identified. The campaign has already seen North End, Fulham Reach and Avonmore and Brook Green wards receive attention, and the feedback from local residents has been very encouraging. 

Local residents are key to the success of the campaign. Being the eyes and ears of the community, they help pinpoint where ‘grot spots’ exists and which areas are persistently targeted by flytippers, graffiti louts and those anti-social elements in society who seem to think it acceptable to dump whatever rubbish they have, wherever they like. 

Andy Brown, who lives in Claxton Grove, Hammersmith, commented on the clear up in his area last month. “There is a footpath at the end of Claxton Grove that runs along to Margravine Cemetery. It was always targeted by flytippers and people dropping litter, but since the clean up it is so much better.”

The most recent campaign in Town ward highlighted different types of grot spots, with both persistent and one-off areas were identified for regular attention. 

These were:
Crookham Road: persistent flytipping;
Beaconsfield Walk:flytipping at power substation;
Beaconsfield Walk:littering and persistent graffiti;
Lettice Street: graffiti on residential and commercial premises;
Dawes Road: repeated occurrences of graffiti and littering;
Dancer Road:dumped rubbish;
Burlington Road: persistent flytipping;
Argon Mews: repeated occurrences of graffiti;
Fulham Road:graffiti in retail parade and Fulham Court entrance; and
Munster Road: regular flytipping around recycling bins.

Alternative remedies are also being sought to long-standing problems, including legal measures, covert surveillance, improved signage, sustainable improvements and harnessing the joint enforcement powers of the council, police and safer neighbourhood teams.