Street cleaning and litter

Our teams of road sweepers and litter pickers work to remove litter and rubbish

We are responsible for all street cleaning within Hart. We're committed to ensuring that we have clean and tidy towns and villages for all residents and visitors to enjoy.

Our teams of road sweepers and litter pickers remove litter and rubbish from 6am, seven days a week. These are assisted by specialist cleansing teams, mechanical sweepers, graffiti removal teams and response units.

Litter

Littering is a criminal offence and you can be fined for doing so. This includes:

  • littering including food waste, cigarette butts or chewing gum
  • not cleaning up after your dog
  • putting up posters without permission, known as fly-posting
  • graffiti

Our Environmental Enforcement Officers can issue fixed penalty notices of £100 for these offences.

If you have received a fixed penalty notice you can use our online payments service.

Pay a fixed penalty notice

Public Spaces Protection Orders

Public Spaces Protection Orders help us tackle anti-social behaviour locally, so that public spaces can be enjoyed by everyone.

We have a Hart-wide Protection Order, which makes it an offence for a person to allow a dog to foul and not clean it up.

Read our Public Spaces Protection Order (Dog Fouling)

Fly-posting

Fly-posting is the display of advertising material on buildings and street furniture without consent of the owner. It is against the law and is liable to a £100 fine.

We monitor illegal advertising on street furniture and beside roads and pavements as part of a campaign to improve the appearance of local neighbourhoods. We will contact any businesses or individual concerned, asking them to remove adverts within a specified time period. If adverts are not removed on time, the signs may be removed.

The guidance states that:

  • Sign must not be fixed or chained to street furniture, such as lampposts and roads signs, or planted into the ground on public land
  • Signs must not be attached at road junctions or roundabouts or bock the views of pedestrians or drivers

Further information can be found in our unauthorised advertising (fly-posting) guidance.

Report it

You can report fly-posting incidents via FixMyStreet and we will investigate and take any necessary action.

Report fly-posting 

A-board and swing board advertising

This is a type of advertising board used on the pavement outside shops and restaurants.

We understand that there is a need for signage and displays, especially in town and village centres, and want to support our local businesses. Signs should be directly outside the shop/business or within the immediate vicinity.

However, we have a duty to ensure they are used safely and do not cause problems for pedestrians, particularly the visually impaired and wheelchair users. For these reasons we ask businesses to observe our guidelines:

  • Boards must not be placed where they may cause an obstruction or block lines of sight for pedestrians and traffic, such as at a junction or roundabout. We will remove any signs that are a nuisance or danger.
  • Boards must not be attached to street furniture, railings, lampposts or secured by ropes, cables tie or other locking device
  • Boards must not be damaged or broken

Further information can be found in our A-board and swing board advertising guidance.

Dead animals

It can be upsetting to see a dead animal on the roadside, whether it's a pet or a wild animal, such as a fox or a deer.

Our Street Care team is responsible for the removal of dead animals from roads and public open spaces. Bodies of pets will be taken to local veterinary clinics where they will be scanned for a microchip. We will contact the owner if a microchip is found.

We do not remove smaller wildlife such as birds, wild rabbits, rats and hedgehogs as these are generally removed by other animals as a food source.

Report a dead animal

We log all reports of dead domestic animals that are removed, so if you are missing a family pet and suspect that it may have been involved in an accident, call 01256 622166. Details of where your pet was last seen and any distinguishing features will help us answer your query.