Love your street this Valentine’s Day

RESIDENTS in Leek have been invited to love their street and town on Valentine’s Day this Sunday.

People living across the town have been urged to join a clean up campaign by clearing litter and dog dirt in their own street in a safe covid-19 way.

One of the organisers of the street clean, Alan Fletcher, said: “The matter started by someone complaining on facebook about the state of streets in the town. Some said it was the council’s responsibility, but I think we all have a responsibility to keep our streets and town clean.

“I spoke to many people and then put it on facebook that we should have a love your street and town event on Valentine’s Day. It has now snowballed and we have even had litter pickers donated.

“We are not anti dog, we just want to change the mind set of people. If everyone gets together to clean their own streets it will show the council we are doing our bit.

“I would like to thank everyone who comes forward to help clean up their own streets on Sunday. I am being helped with the organisation by Sammi Pickering who has done a lot of work.”

Alan said the aim of Sunday’s clean up was a one off, but the amount of interest it has received means it will carry on.

He said: “Due to the amount of interest we have received we are going to keep the clean up campaign going by looking at cleaning recreation grounds and playing fields in the future.

“There are also five major roads leading into Leek, the amount of litter on the roads does not give a good impression to visitors entering the town. We would have to work with the council with regards to health and safety to do such clean up work.”

For further information contact Alan on 07462 564560 or Sammi on 07802 763211.