Street care and cleaning

Find out what you can do if you have problems in your street such as flytipping and graffiti

In this section:

• Dog fouling
  In most areas of York you can be fined up to £1000, plus the costs of the prosecution, if you do not clean up after your dog
• Drains and sewerage
  Includes information about drain clearing
• Litter
  Report any type of litter including animal mess, chewing gum, dead animals, damaged or full dog bins, grass cuttings, glass, gravel, grit, leaves and blossom, damaged or full litter bins, moss, paint, vomit or weeds
• Flyposting
  Flyposting is the unauthorised display of an advertisement. We can serve notice on those displaying or causing a flyposter to be displayed to remove it within 48 hours
• Flytipping
  Report flytipping and let us know the exact details of where it occurred, what you saw and the vehicle registration
• Graffiti
  Let us know about graffiti so we can investigate the issue and keep you up to date with progress of its removal
• Grass cutting
  We arrange grounds maintenance and grass cutting services across most of the city including highway verges and housing communal areas
• Love Where You Live - York
  Love Where You Live is a new campaign that aims to inspire, encourage and enable us to make where we live, work and play the kind of place we really want it to be.
• Public conveniences
  Opening times and facilities of public toilets in York and information about RADAR keys
• Spillages on roads
  Let us know if someone is actively pouring items on to the road
• Street cleaning programme
  The cleansing of council owned or adopted streets, car parks, gullies and other land by mechanical or manual methods