As well as tidying litter and removing graffiti and abandoned vehicles, our teams manage a number of other areas:
Streets, shop fronts and street furniture
We sweep city-centre streets and shop fronts daily. We also aim to maintain all residential streets to an acceptable standard of cleaning by sweeping.
Our street-sweeping programme is supported by a deep-cleaning crew that carries out intensive cleans on residential streets as needed.
We maintain the majority of street furniture such as benches, litter bins and dog bins. If you have a problem related to any street furniture please contact our customer services team.
Some bus shelters are managed by Adshell and carry the Adshell logo. Others are maintained by us; to report a problem please quote the number on the bus shelter as well as its location.
Grass areas, parks and public gardens
We empty park litter and dog bins on a routine basis. Formal children's play areas are visually checked and cleaned every weekday.
We maintain most grass areas around the city including grass verges, parks and areas of grass on housing estates. We aim to cut most grass areas fortnightly during the growing season.
We use large machinery to cut the bulk of the grass and then tidy with smaller mowers and strimmers.
In some areas, long grass is maintained to promote the growth of wild flora and fauna.
Needles and drug-related litter
It is very important that you contact us immediately if you find drug-related litter.
We aim to collect and safely dispose of this potentially hazardous material within two hours of it being reported.
Flyposting
If you see any flyposting around the city please contact our customer services team and we will arrange for it to be removed.
Chewing gum
The cost of cleaning gum from the pavements of Cambridge has risen to £12,000 per year. This is money we would rather spend keeping the streets clean of other litter and tending to local parks and other public spaces, so please bin your gum when you're done.
Car parks
We tidy and clean our multi-storey car parks on a daily basis and also use heavy duty ride-on industrial cleaning machines to maintain clean floors in our newly refurbished car parks.
This work is undertaken throughout normal working hours to ensure that oil and other spills can be removed quickly.
In the winter period this work helps to remove the salt staining to offer a high standard of facilities.
Drummer Street bus station
The bus station is cleaned twice a day every day and has a thorough wash down and clean at least three times a year.
Animals
If you find a stray dog, please contact the dog warden on 01223 457898. If you find a stray cat, please contact the Cambridge branch of Blue Cross on 01223 350153.
If you find a dead animal in the street or on any other public land, please contact us and we will remove the animal as quickly as we can. We will also scan any dead cat or dog to identify if the animal has been microchipped. Cats Protection have kindly loaned a chip reader for this purpose.
