Community Payback litter picking success
October 25, 2011 Iain Roberts 5 Comments

The Lib Dem team have been campaigning for more use to be made of Community Payback to get our paths and green spaces cleaner and clearer around Cheadle & Gatley.

A few weeks ago we asked residents to suggest where it might be useful. We added those to our own ideas and passed them on.

We’ve now had it confirmed that the Probation Service aim to spend at least one day a week making Cheadle & Gatley clearer of litter and vegetation, improving our footpaths in particular.

This is great news, and will really add to the service the Council provides.

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5 Comments

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Andy
Thursday 27 October 2011 - 7:13 pm

Manchester is doing the same, mixed feelings about this.

Clearly if there are jobs that need doing then I would expect full time jobs to created and workers paid a living wage.

More litter wardens, instead of fining perpetrators make them spend 4 hrs picking litter, make them fill 10 bags of litter.

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Iain Roberts
Thursday 27 October 2011 - 8:38 pm

Hi Andy,

We would love to have the money to employ more people, but in the meantime this seems to me to be a good use of the resources available.

One rule is that the Community Payback people can’t take work away from paid employees.

Interesting idea on punishments for litterers.

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Judy Ashworth
Sunday 30 October 2011 - 12:32 pm

There are still a lot of nettles and foliage on Ashfield Road near Cheddle lodge and the library. No-one seems able to solve how to get rid of these as we are told it is an unadopted road The nettles are still a risk to passing children.

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Iain Roberts
Sunday 30 October 2011 - 12:54 pm

Hi Judy,

It is unadopted, but we’ve got it on the list for community payback, so from now on they should be cleared on a reasonably regular basis.

Iain

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Paula Isherwood
Sunday 30 October 2011 - 2:39 pm

We have been trying to get a Community Payback team to clear the footpath by Gatley brook on the Carrs for two months now and although it has been promised we have heard nothing more nor have I had acknowledgements to my emails to them. We are aware that you know this Iain but it is galling to hear that councillors seem to be able to get them to do work which they want doing but Gatley residents are ignored when work also for the community’s benefit is brushed aside – pun not intended!



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