Area Committees are this week considering a Lib Dem proposal to help with street cleaning.

Some roads are so full of cars that they almost never get a proper clean, no matter how often sweepers are sent round.

Under this plan, the Council might say, for example, that a road will be  cleaned on the first Tuesday of each month.  Leaflets would be delivered to remind residents and signs put up on lampposts.

A traffic order would be in place, making it illegal for vehicles to park on the road for that day (or perhaps just for a couple of hours).  Tickets could be handed out if needed.

The road would then be cleaned at that time (possibly it could be co-ordinated with gully cleaning too).

This seems to me like a sensible approach for the relatively small number of roads where it’s currently a real problem.