"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?
