Other work and partnerships

Capital Ambition 'Street Cleaning Challenge' project

Until April 2011 Capital Ambition was London's Improvement and Efficiency Partnership and a directorate of London Councils. In 2008/09 under its 'Street Cleaning Challenge' project, Capital Ambition and the London Environment Directors' Network (LEDNET) commissioned Rse-Tribal to review productivity in recycling and street cleansing services. The output of the reviews are two separate toolkits that can be used for self-appraisal and suggested next steps.

Interviews were held with recycling and street cleansing heads of service to explore their approach to efficiency and develop a set of good practice service ‘blueprints’. Within the wider researched street cleansing review, comparator metrics have also been developed to provide authorities with an actual cost comparison for providing key elements of the service.  Read reports from this project

Pan London work on local environmental quality

In March 2011, the Mayor of London launched 'Love Clean London' – a reporting tool that uses web and phone technology to enable people to upload photographs onto an online map of environmental issues that require action by the local authority.

London Councils is one of the partners involved in Capital Clean-up  Opens in a new window Opens in a new window- a partnership campaign now led by the Mayor of London. The campaign is in its fifth year and has coordinated over 600 community clean-up events. In 2011, Capital Clean-Up ran a summer campaign in June/July and will run an autumn campaign in September