Street trading costs council £1000's!

 

Removing stickers like this is costing Redbridge Council £1000's

A while ago Wilson reported a brothel that is currently operating from 74 Gordon Road.  The brothel has become the bane of residents living there, with visitors frequenting the property 24 hours a day.  (Click here)

Recently however, whilst delivering leaflets in Ilford Town Centre, Wilson Chowdhry approached a street cleaner and asked him whether they were ensuring that our local Police were aware of the stickers advertising for massage services, that were proliferating throughout Clementswood Ward and Mayfield ward.  He was informed that they were sharing the contact details on the stickers for a register maintained by streetscene and our local constabulary.  The contact details were being kept for a special operation by the police and that the Streetscene tam were removing stickers from lamp posts and other utilities, as quick as possible. 

The Cleaner did admit us however that the clean up operation was unsuccessful.  He described one occasion when they removed over 3000 stickers from the High Road, Green Lane, Gordon Road and a few other roads,  only to find that around a third of the cleared locations had new stickers the following day.  

The sticker in the photo was found the day after the conversation with the cleaner. The location has been reported to Streetscene.  There is legislation in place that tackles bill stickers like these, those responsible should be charged £100 for each individual sticker.  We will be chasing up the Streetscene team to see what they are doing about it.