Westridge Road Car Park

The left image is Westridge Road car park (Portswood) during the Conservative administration. As your local councillor I worked to ensure it was regularly cleared by the City Services waste team but it inevitably filled up again with litter and fly-tipped rubbish a few days later. The contract with the charity bin companies was awful and when they failed to collect, rubbish just mounted up.

When Labour took back control in May 2022, I worked with waste services to change the contracts to ensure the charity bins were emptied regularly and that only one company held the contract making them exclusively responsible for dumped waste. In the last six months, this car park has been completely clear of fly-tipped litter.

All Charity Collection Car Parks

The strategy was modelled right across Southampton. Now for every car park across Southampton, this kind of litter has been removed permanently.

The council has saved hundreds of thousands of pounds no longer having to remove tonnes of waste from these sites every month and the charity donation rate has increased from 5 to 25 tonnes every month. A genuine WIN – WIN situation

There is still a lot of work to do but if you want a much cleaner and tidier Portswood vote Labour this May.