"You don’t have to go miles out of your way, just take a look up and down your road and give it some TLC. If leaves have built up in your gulley this acts as a damn and prevents water from naturally draining away, litter, silt and blocked drains can all lead to surface water flooding.”
Havering Volunteer Centre do an outstanding job in our community. Led by their CEO Shelley Hart, the team are a actively working across our borough to support endless communities.
By, it would appear, getting gullible residents to do what they are paying their rates to the council to do on their behalf.
Shelley Hart, CEO of Havering Volunteer Centre told the Havering Daily: “We all have a pivotal role to play in preventing surface flooding. All we need to do is love our street, this means being aware of the gulley’s and soakaways on the roads and streets we live in.
Here are some top tips to help you ‘Love Your Street’:
• Clear gutters and outside drains – remove leaves and debris
• Pick up leaves and silt from the gulley’s (sic) to prevent damn formation, these can be put into your green bins or in clear sacks at the end of your street
• Report waste dumping into drains – cement, sand and plaster can block our drains
• Litter pick your street to prevent rubbish entering our drainage systemsSounds like a lot of work Shelley, so let me ask you - what council tax rebate does it attract?
6 comments:
Whatever next to save the State a few bob? Do-it-yourself brain surgery?
I remember in our last house, somebody new moved in down the street and managed to organise many residents to 'clean up' an area of wasteland. She had to get permission from the council and the police attended (For reasons I don't know). Needless to say, we didn't get involved. It was funny coming home from a shopping trip and seeing all those people hard at work.
Where we live now, leaves from the trees opposite, accumulate in our garden. I regularly clear them up and dump them over the road under the trees. I'm sure if I was caught by an official, they would want a word...
At least they admit it. They are havering volunteers.
And blaspheming at a few leaves in the gutter will not achieve much.
I see that havering is a North British term.
"Pick up leaves and silt from the gulley’s (sic) to prevent damn [ANOTHER SIC] formation, these can be put into your green bins or in clear sacks at the end of your street
They don't give a damn, or dam - it seems they're not sure which.
Why do little groups (are they charities?) like this have a CEO? Is the title some form of ego trip?
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