Norwich City Council's Love Norwich begins clean-up trials

Norwich City Council has launched the Love Norwich online hub for communities to get involved with attempts to tidy up public areas and combat crime.

As part of this, work has started on one of two neighbourhood clean-ups, the first in Suffolk Square between February 22 and March 14 and the second in Northfields, near Eaton Park, between March 13 and 31.

The Love Norwich campaign has come under fire from rival parties in the past as the number of reports of fly-tipping continued to rise (Image: Leon Best)

The Labour-controlled authority's Love Norwich project came under fire late last year from rival parties after it was revealed the council were receiving - on average - 16 fly-tipping reports every day.

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Labour councillor Adam Giles, who is the cabinet member for communities and social inclusion at City Hall, said: "We're all responsible for making the environment we live in a better place and we know Norwich has a great community spirit.

The Love Norwich campaign launched in November 2022 to action the city council's commitment to keeping the city clean (Image: Norwich City Council)

"We hope our Love Norwich hub will become the go-to one stop shop for our residents to get involved and feel engaged with their local environment. 

"This is their city. They live, work and play here, so we want them to feel good about where they live.

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"They’ll be able to find out what we have done recently and what we are doing right now to improve the districts they live in, including if a neighbourhood clean-up is scheduled for their area and how they might help shape what improvements are needed.

Adam Giles, cabinet member for communities and social inclusion at Norwich City Council (Image: Norwich City Council)

"This is part of our rolling neighbourhood clean-up programme to improve the environment and tackle problems such as fly-tipping, dirty pavements and unmaintained shrubs or grassy areas."

Earlier this year calls were also made to introduce public skips to city estates after housing provider, Flagship Services, trialled the idea in Cadge Road.

There are two trial projects, happening in Suffolk Square and Northfields (Image: Submitted)