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Kingston Riverside Litter Blitz

The Thames Landscape Strategy is continuing for forge strong links with the Payback initiative of the London Probation Service. Community Payback is a London Probation partnership with the Metropolitan Police and local authorities. It is focused to visibly address crime and the fear of crime as prioritised by local communities. Its objectives are to enable offenders subject to Community Orders with an Unpaid Work requirement, to make reparation to local communities as part of the Metropolitan Police’s Safer Neighbourhoods programme.

Since May of this year, Payback offenders subject to Community Orders have carried out 5 litter blitzes along the riverbank in Kingston, from the Boundary Stone in Ham Lands, along Lower Ham Road to Canbury Gardens. Each outing has yielded on average 12 sacks of rubbish, and the most recent clean up saw car tyres and a child’s scooter being retreived from the riverside.

No one has responsibility for the litter clearance along the towpath in Kingston, so this work undertaken by Payback is of particular importance, and helps keep the riverside clean and tidy for both people and wildlife to enjoy.

Payback has also worked with London’s Arcadia – the Thames Landscape Strategy in Action! As part of a wider package of improvements to St Margaret’s Promenade, Payback community service workers carried out major improvements to the railings along St Margaret’s riverside. The work, which was undertaken over the summer, involved the rigorous cleaning and careful repainting of historic railings.

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