Currock residents are being urged to support a week-long Big Tidy Up campaign.

Between Monday, 23 August and Saturday, 28 August, Carlisle City Council and partners, are planning a comprehensive clean-up of the Currock area and are asking the local community to lend a hand.

Volunteers who want to take an active part in making their local environment cleaner, greener and safer, are being asked to take part in a litter-pick. This will be held on Saturday, 28 August, starting at 9.30am. Anyone interested in taking part, should meet at Currock Community Centre, Lediard Avenue. All equipment will be provided by the City Council. Anyone interested in taking part, should contact 01228 618556 or 01228 817200 for more information.

In some areas, the City Council’s area maintenance team will be asking residents to move their vehicles, at certain times, so allow mechanical sweeping to be done.

In addition to the litter picking event, Carlisle City Council will also be doing the following in the Currock area during the Big Tidy Up week: additional road sweeping; removing fly tipping; litter picking; removing fly posters; removing graffiti; washing bus stops; cleaning gullies; shrub bed maintenance; removing weeds; minor highway repairs; painting bollards and other general maintenance work.

Enforcement Officers will be checking for fly tipping and dog fouling and advising occupiers of the regulations surrounding these issues.                    

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Notes to Editors:

The Big Tidy Up is a national campaign, view information here.