In speaking to people about local affairs, the one theme that crops up time and time again is that Camden simply do not listen to the needs or wants of residents and businesses, pandering instead to institutions, investors, and flimsy ideologies. Continue reading The People of Bloomsbury are Irrelevant to Camden
We have published a report on the state of cleanliness in Bloomsbury, and how it can be improved. Continue reading Read our Report on Cleanliness in Bloomsbury
We have been walking around WC1 removing the profusion of planning documents and road closure notifications attached to posts. These contribute negatively to the appearance of an area and are classed as ‘flyposting’ by Keep Britain Tidy. As is well known they are often left for years and become degraded. Camden are legally obliged to put up these documents in an area when there is a planning application or road closure. They are unfortunately not legally obliged to remove them. We have found documents from as far back as 2013. We considered applying to Historic England to have them listed … Continue reading Help to tidy your Area
Freedom of Information response reveals that Veolia have never met their cleanliness targets, but have faced only a 0.5% deduction from their £16,000/day payment. Continue reading Veolia have never met their Targets
Press coverage of Camden’s filth problem ramps up. Continue reading ‘Streets Paved with Rubbish’
Experiments and an FOI request reveal Veolia are falsely marking requests for work as complete Borough-wide, avoiding deductions from their payment schedule while ensuring litter builds up. But Camden aren’t interested in fully investigating the situation. Continue reading The Clean Camden Controversy
Thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money lost over two weeks due to alleged software error. Following reports that Veolia have been falsely marking Clean Camden reports as completed, Camden have asked Veolia to conduct an investigation. Issues with reports being falsely marked as complete have already been commonly reported throughout Camden. Veolia have claimed that it was an ‘error’ with the software used to run the Clean Camden app, called ‘Echo’, which is used by Veolia throughout the country. These issues have led to people being reluctant to use the Clean Camden app, some calling it a ‘black hole’. After … Continue reading Investigation Begins into Alleged Clean Camden Software Error
If Veolia don’t respond to your reports, they get fined. Most of you will not have read the entire length of the analysis of Veolia’s Payments and Performance Schedule. However those that did picked up time and time again on the power of using Clean Camden. What is Clean Camden? It is an app available for your mobile phone, and is also available online. You set up an account, and the gist of it is essentially you take photos of litter and upload them, with some geolocation and description. These reports are uploaded to a website which all can access, … Continue reading Why you need to use Clean Camden.
After meeting with Mr Richard Bradbury (Head of Environment Services) and trawling through the payments and performance section of Veolia’s contract, we now have a better idea of how much Veolia are paid, along with the deductions they suffer for poor performance. Continue reading Veolia’s Payment and Performance – An Analysis
Addressing wider issues in Bloomsbury. After starting with our campaign against litter and fly-tipping in Bloomsbury, we have been drawn in to various other issues in the area – with planning, the street environment, conservation and other such things. Our aim is to bring Bloomsbury to the level of respect that it deserves. However the problems with litter are tied in to problems of poor resident behaviour, poor involvement from Camden, poor perception of the environment, poor maintenance of the environment – poor planning decisions, poor street furniture – along with Camden’s lack of proper monitoring of Veolia. If we … Continue reading Update – 11/10/2019
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