Freedom of information response

1. How many environmental enforcement FTE posts do you have? (is this different to 21/22 and if so how) Five officers and remains the same

2. What is the budget for environmental enforcement for 23/24? (is this different to 21/22 and if so how)

3. Do you have a breakdown of the types of Enforcement Actions taken in 2021/22 for fly-tipping?

4. How many cleansing FTE posts do you have? (is this different to 21/22 and if so how)

Staffing 21/22 39.46

Staffing 23/24 36.64

5. What is your total street cleansing budget for 23/24? (is this different to 21/22 and if so how)

Budget 21/22 £1,984,000

Budget 23/24 £2,160,000

6. Are you happy to share your street cleansing and environmental enforcement team structure chart? Yes - for Street Cleansing

7. Are your street cleansing services in-house or outsourced? In house

8. What is your street cleansing annual service budget/contract cost See answer to Q5

9. Is your street cleansing service input based or outcome-based? i.e reactive cleansing etc - Input based currently

10. What is your cleansing model for residential roads? i.e set cleansing frequency, output/needs-based

Cleansing - Set cleansing frequency

11. Do you operate a Neighbourhoods model or Borough wide service? Borough wide service

12. The number of staff and/or service structure (managers, supervisors, chargehands, operatives etc) – team sweeps v manual solo operatives

1 Manager (Supervisor)

4 Team Leaders (Chargehand)

2 HGV Sweeper Drivers

2 Medium Sweeper Drivers

4 Small Sweeper Drivers

22 Operatives

4 Weekend Operatives

13. Your cleansing arrangements for different roads/zones i.e High Streets, main shopping parades, trunk roads,main roads etc  High streets and shopping parades done daily, all over work weekly / fortnightly by schedule

14. The number and length of roads by type i.e Zone 1, Zone 2 or Zone 3. - 350 miles of road area and associated footpaths

15. How many street cleansing vehicles you have and what type of vehicles you have?

1  3.5 Tonne cage tipper van

1 Grab Lorry

4 HAKO Sweepers

2 Medium Sweepers

2 HGV Sweepers

4 4.5 Tonne cage tipper cage vans.

16. What are your service times? i.e days, evening, nights, weekends, Monday to Friday and or weekends or 5/717. Litter bins – type, number and frequency of emptying. - 07:30 to 15:30 weekdays, 12:00 to 20:00 Saturdays and 08:00 to 16:00 Sundays. 580 Litterbins emptied on a needs basis

18. Do you have resource for pavement washing? No specialised equipment, We use or mechanical sweepers to jetwash as needed

19. Do you have resource for graffiti removal? No dedicated resource, function carried out by Street Cleansing staff

20. Is dog fouling included in cleansing and plus a separate reactive resource? Only from hard surfaces not from grassed areas,

21. Who clears any unadopted, private and unregistered land? These are not the responsibility of Thurrock Council, and should be cleared by the landowner

22. What are your response times for graffiti (offensive and non-offensive) and flytipping removal?  Offensive up to 1 day, non-offensive carried out as part of reactive works.

23. What are your response times for overflowing litter bin emptying? 1hour, within working hours

24. Any other response times i.e hazardous waste such as broken glass, vomit/blood spillages?   1hour, within working hours