Our street cleaning programme

We work with our contractors to make sure Brent’s roads and streets are kept clean and tidy all year round.

This operation involves cleaning more than 1,700 streets.

• Zone 1 roads (usually town centres) are cleaned daily between 7am and 10pm.
• Residential areas are cleaned once a week / fortnight
• Increased cleaning of streets surrounding Wembley Stadium takes place on and after event days.
• Follow up cleaning to make sure streets are clean after refuse and recycling bins are emptied.
• Litter bins are emptied when they are 75% full – there’s more than 463 of them.

We aim to make sure the cleanliness of Brent’s streets never drops below ‘Grade B’. This grade means a street is predominately free of litter and rubbish except for a few small items. 

Grading structure for street cleanliness 

• Grade A: no litter or refuse    

• Grade B: predominately free of litter and refuse, except for a few small items.   

• Grade C: widespread distribution of litter and refuse, with some items spread across the road

• Grade D: heavily littered, with significant piles built up

Three intermediate grades will also be used.  These are:

• B+ between Grade A and Grade B
• B-  between Grade B and Grade C
• C- between Grade C and Grade D

What our street cleaning programme includes

• clearing Littering and fly-tipping
• cleaning of roadside gutters 
• removing graffiti
• removing dead animals from the public highway
• cleaning all street furniture at least twice a year - including signs, benches and bollards
• clearing fallen leaves

You can help up keep Brent’s streets clean by reporting issues to us if you see them. The simplest way to do this is to report a street cleaning problem online.