A Clean Sweep? Environmental services in deprived neighbourhoods

A clean sweep: delivering cleaner streets in diverse neighbourhoods

The project aims to enhance the capacity of local authorities to deliver neighbourhood environmental services in ways that reflect diverse levels of need across residential neighbourhoods. Street cleanliness is an important factor influencing overall satisfaction with neighbourhoods and is one of the key indicators that Government uses to judge the performance of English local authorities.

In the UK, deprived neighbourhoods tend to be dirtier than their better off counterparts. A recent study identified an extensive range of physical, social and economic features of deprived areas which environmental service providers suggested could be responsible for this. Our analysis will try to identify which factors or which combination of factors actually matter.

This report will be available by November 2009.

Funder: Joseph Rowntree Foundation