Litter built up badly again

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• Thank you for contacting National Highways about litter.

  We regard litter as a significant issue, and we share your concern about the amount of rubbish discarded on our roads, and I’ve raised your concerns with our team. We have a wide road network across the south of England and therefore with a limited budget are required to concentrate our efforts on prioritising areas with the heaviest amount of litter in accordance with the Defra Code of Practice system (Grades A to D).

  We carry out regular litter inspections along the A2 and our team will raise jobs to instruct our maintenance partners to litter pick sections of our network that are identified as a priority first.

  Although other areas will experience levels of litter that are unsightly, they will be tackled under our normal litter maintenance programme periodically. This may cause litter to be left on the roadside for longer periods than we’d like.

  I hope you can understand that clearing rubbish is very costly and is an ongoing challenge across our network. This often requires partial or full road closures planned in advance to carry out any clearance work. This can be disruptive and takes time. To help reduce the frequency of this disruption, where we can, we usually combine our reactive litter picks with other maintenance work which can result in what appears to be a delayed response.

  Jobs have been raised for this area with work expected to take place as soon as it's possible.

  State changed to: Closed

  Posted by National Highways at 09:48, Mon 25 November 2024