ADDITIONAL funding towards cleaning up trouble spots in the district has been allocated to councillors.

Cotswold District Council has provided an individual allowance of £2,000 to each councillor to fund additional street cleansing work within their wards.

Each elected member will be able to request the council’s waste service provider, Ubico Ltd, to provide extra services up to this value by a deadline of the end of January 2016.

This means that residents can now make requests to their ward councillors for additional work such as enhanced street cleaning, grass cutting, clearing up during or after a local event, and installation and emptying of extra litter or dog mess bins - provided they are on land owned by Gloucestershire Highways, Cotswold District Council or a town /parish council.

Commenting on this extra funding, Councillor Sue Coakley, CDC Cabinet Member for Health, Environment and Communities, said:

“We know that residents place a high priority on the maintenance of clean streets and the timely disposal of unsightly litter. Any resident wishing to make a request for extra cleansing work should contact their Ward Councillor; they will consider each request they receive and then decide whether to allocate funding from their individual £2,000 budget.”