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New EV points

Thanks to our partnership with Trojan Energy, more than 70 new innovative on-street electric vehicle (EV) charge points will have been installed throughout the Borough, providing easy access for residents who want to use cleaner transport options.

Bexley’s Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, Cllr Richard Diment, said:

It’s great to have worked with such an established partner to deliver these new charging points. We’re committed to providing cleaner and greener forms of transport for our residents. The innovative design of these chargers means that as well as reducing street clutter, they maintain the highest safety standards for pedestrians, whilst providing easy access for charging.”

ev points with cars charging
new EV points

Cleaning up chewing gum

The clean-up operation to remove chewing gum from Sidcup High Street and around Sidcup Station finished at the end of October following months of intensive cleaning with specialist equipment.

It also included Welling High Street between Nags Head Lane, McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken on both sides of the road before going back to Bexleyheath Broadway to finish off some of the tougher patches.  The clean-up was paid for with money from an industry funded Chewing Gum Removal Fund which the Council successfully bid for.

New signage has also been put up in the areas that have been cleaned to encourage people to put their chewing gum into a bin and local businesses have supported the clean-up by putting up the signs in shop windows. Anyone caught littering chewing gum faces a £300 fine.

 

Duck with it foot stuck in chewing gum
grounds maintenance with tractors

New contract for grounds maintenance

Bexley has awarded Nurture Group the contract to support the maintenance of our 106 parks and open spaces, 35 playgrounds, four cemeteries and hundreds of thousands of trees, as well as other key services.

The new combined six-year contract, that started on 1 October 2025, covers grounds maintenance, burials and arboriculture services. The arboriculture services will commence in April 2026.

Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, Cllr Richard Diment said:

We are committed to achieve affordable, quality services for our residents who we know greatly value our extensive green spaces and green canopy.  I look forward to the new opportunities this contract will bring.”   

The new contract with Nurture will ensure that jobs and career development is directed at the local Bexley workforce and that the green space volunteers and Friends of Groups receive support, assistance and training.

The contract includes a commitment to bring forward investment and expansion in digital systems.

Fly-tipping crackdown

We are cracking down on illegal waste carriers through increased enforcement operations. The Council’s Enviro-Crime Officers working in partnership with the Metropolitan Police and Environment Agency have seized several vehicles suspected of involvement in fly-tipping offences within the borough.

The first vehicle, a white Volkswagen,  was suspected of the unauthorised depositing of waste in Foots Cray Meadows. The second vehicle, a white Mercedes Sprinter, was seized on Westwood Lane, Welling. If anyone has any information relating to these vehicles or other illegal waste carriers please email AreaTeamSupport@bexley.gov.uk.

More joint police operations and spot checks are planned to identify unlicensed vehicles and individuals. If you are hiring someone to remove your rubbish, you must always make sure you use a registered waste carrier or you could be fined. Information about licensed waste carriers can be obtained from the Environment Agency’s website.

Bexley Council remains committed to tackling fly-tipping and protecting local green spaces for the community. Other actions that we are taking include the installation of 70 new ‘no fly-tipping’ signs throughout the borough. The signs remind fly-tipping criminals of the fines they face, that they will be caught and have a QR code to help residents report this type of offence.

The new signs along with stricter penalties for offenders and more joint operations with the Police to target illegal waste carriers, are just some of the actions the Council are taking to crackdown on offenders.

Please help us catch these criminals by reporting fly-tipping to the Council using the Bexley Fix My Street reporting tool or by emailing AreaTeamSupport@bexley.gov.uk

Bexleys Cabinet Member Cllr Diment at one of the new fly-tipping signs
roadworks cone

Road condition report highlights highway maintenance success

Our Local Highways Maintenance Transparency report that sets out Bexley’s highways maintenance activities has highlighted some of the successes that the Council has had over the past year and reaffirmed our continued commitment to repairing potholes with an overall budget of over £6.4m allocated by Bexley for road and footway repairs in 2025/26.

The report shows that Bexley has less lengths of road in a bad condition than our neighbouring boroughs. In Bexley only 1% of our primary roads classed as A roads are rated red in comparison to 5% in Lewisham, 23% in Havering, 25% in Croydon and 29% in Bromley. Similarly in Bexley of the roads rated as B and C class routes 3% were rated as needing maintenance compared with 8% in Lewisham, 26% in Havering, 18% in Croyden and in Bromley 34%.

The report also shows that on average over 65 major resurfacing and large patching projects take place across the Borough annually. In Bexley we have a very robust inspection regime along with additional inspections by a highway  technician for potholes reported by the public. If a pothole is 40mm deep and 200mm wide, it is classed as urgent and dealt with as a matter of emergency. The non urgent ones can be 31 to 39mm in depth and could be of any width. These are repaired either through isolated minor repairs or via a resurfacing programme (a bigger patch of road is dug up and a larger reconstruction is carried out).

Cllr Richard Diment said: 

Although it is unfortunate that we do have potholes the reality is that Bexley’s roads are in a far better condition than those of our neighbours.  We’re proud of what we’re doing about our roads.”

Potholes and other road maintenance issues can be reported on Fix my street.

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