Street Warden Service

Barking and Dagenham

The Street Warden Service was launched in the borough to stamp out environmental crime and work with the community to promote pride and respect for our streets and public spaces.

There are currently 19 Street Wardens who are here for you, and whilst their main working hours are now 9am - 5pm, Mondays to Fridays, they will when necessary be working beyond these hours, to ensure the provision of an excellent service to residents, businesses and visitors to the borough.

Wardens have now been allocated wards to enhance the service and facilitate working closely with the Council's Neighbourhood Management staff.

The work they undertake consists of dealing with service requests received through Customer First and carrying out pro-active patrols to tackle litter, dog fouling, fly-tipping, graffiti, and fly-posting.

In addition, they participate in major projects aimed at tackling and preventing enviro-crime - examples being the Council's Graffiti Charter which is aimed at helping small businesses in maintaining their premises free of graffiti, and the Anti-Cigarette Butt Litter Campaign.

Two of the team also act as Dog Wardens, who tackle dog nuisance problems caused by strays and fouling of public places.

The service plays a key role in assisting in reducing overall street crime levels and the fear of crime, by maintaining a strong presence on the streets and working closely with the Police and Safer Neighbourhood Teams.

All of the wardens promote positive social behaviour and citizenship through educational visits to schools.

The Street Wardens also work closely with the other Council services, in particular, the Parks Police, Community Safety and Street Cleansing.

For the last financial year (1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008), the wardens issued nearly 2,000 statutory notices and just over 400 fixed penalty notices, to successfully tackle problems of litter, fly-tipping and graffiti.

Voluntary Streetleader Scheme|

A pilot initiative that aims to make our neighbourhoods cleaner and safer by working closer together with volunteers from the local community.

Fly tipping|

Alley gates|

Name and Shame - Successful prosecutions|

Frequently asked questions|

Public notice - dog fouling|

What you can do to help

Report any incidents of dumped rubbish, fly tipping, dog fouling, graffiti and antisocial behaviour in the street or any public space
Give us feedback after we have been to your neighbourhood on how we can improve the service

What we will do to help

We will respond to any reports or complaint received about antisocial behaviour, graffiti, fly tipping and dog fouling
Any reports or complaints made to us will be treated in the strictest confidence
We will respond to service requests within 2 days

We will issue fixed penalty notices for:

We will name and shame anyone we prosecute.

More about us

Our Noise and Nuisance team will investigate complaints about rubbish that do not relate to public spaces
We have an Animal Welfare service, which collects stray dogs and deals with animal welfare issues
We also run a Traveller Liaison service which responds to the needs and issues raised by travellers in the borough
We are committed to giving everyone in the borough equal access to our services
We focus on people's needs and use feedback and consultation to improve our services