Other street cleaning services
Town centres
Barnet has 69 neighbourhood shopping centres, which are cleaned every day. In the larger town centres we have town keepers.
Barnet’s town keepers help to improve the local quality of life by looking after 13 town centres and tackling problems such as flytipping, litter and graffiti..As part of the continuous fight against graffiti, the council is rolling out its Graffiti Charter 
(PDF: 414KB) and seeking signatories to work in partnership with the council to achieve a graffiti free Barnet.
As part of the ongoing success, the council is going to unveil another seven town keepers over 2007-8 as part of its town centre improvements, bringing staff ownership and a presence to more of the boroughs town centres.
Town keepers talk to traders and residents to help familiarise themselves with community issues, such as vandalism, abandoned vehicles, or trade waste problems.
There are town keepers at:
- Chipping Barnet
- Colindale
- Cricklewood
- East Barnet
- East Finchley
- Edgware
- Finchley Church End
- Friern Barnet
- Golders Green
- Mill Hill
- North Finchley
- West Hendon
- Whetstone.
New town keepers for 2007/8 at:
- Brent Street
- Hendon Central
- New Barnet
- Burnt Oak
- Brent Cross
- Temple Fortune
- Childs Hill.
Every town keeper is responsible for their own town centre. They carry out an early morning patrol, report all damage back, and make arrangements for repairs to be carried out, such as:
- repairs to phone boxes
- lamp columns
- bus stops
- bollards
- other street furniture.
What town keepers have done in our town centres
- Collect between 800 and 1000 bags of litter every day
- Arranged for removal of 6000 m2 of graffiti (2005/06)
- Arranged for removal of 180 m2 of fly posting (2005/06)
- Arranged for removal of 720 fly tips (2004/05)
- Reported over 280 defects for repair (2005/06)
Trunk roads
Transport for London is responsible for cleaning the trunk road network within the borough. We are responsible for cleaning nearside footpaths, nearside and offside channels along with central reservations, which are all swept four times a year.
Leaf clearance
During November and December we clear fallen leaves from the borough's roads and pavements
. report areas where fallen leaves are a problem
Special services - clinical waste removal
Every year we provide skips for the Jewish community to dispose of chometz (Passover waste). For more information please use the contact details opposite.
We also provide a clinical waste removal service.
