I chaired a meeting of the Environmental Task Group for North Kings Cross yesterday.  Officials from different bits of the Council and other local bodies site down with a couple of residents to tackle persistent environment problems.  This group works well, amongst other things, we tackled:
Carnoustie Drive – rubbish has been building up because the flats on the Cally that face Carnoustie don’t have their own collection on Carnoustie – officers are arranging for a new collection round on Carnoustie to tackle the problem.
Bingfield Street – sweeping on Friday has not been reliable, the street has become very messy – officers are working to enforce Friday sweeps
Fence on North part of Carnoustie – blown down in gale is being replaced – assurance given that this would not be a metal ‘prison fence’ but like for like replacement
Dog fouling – finally new enforcement powers go live in April – will ensure Bingfield Park and streets around Bingfield, Havelock etc are targetted.  WIll arrange for warning signs for those streets when new signs in
ASB – suspected street drug dealing in area reported to police.  Problems in particular blocks on the Bemerton also reported to HfI for ASB Team enforcement, including new rough sleeper/drug user in stairwell.
Kember St (and other stub streets off Cally) see photo above – officers have identified poor sweeping and are now enforcing properly with ICSL
Building sites on Pembroke Street – various enforcement issues raised
Ferodo Bridge trash glory hole – will be boarded up when BT have moved their cables they need access to in the hole

There is some reorganisation of the North Kings Cross Neighbourhood Management Project expected – hopefully this useful group will continue perhaps in expanded form – it is enormously useful to be able to sit down with four or five council officers who get their hands dirty doing the job (not just senior managers) and work together to tackle persistent problems.  Incidentally, i started this website to report on this group last July.  Seems like a lifetime ago.