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Time 7pm – 8pm

Litter Pick & Weeding – Shrub bed at the junction of Downpatrick Street and New Line.
Volunteers Muriely, Lily and Denis.
5 bags of rubbish.

Time 8pm – 9pm

Litter Picking, Weeding & Sweeping – Footpath and area adjacent to Maxol Garage.
Volunteers Muriel and Lily.
1 bag of rubbish.

Members of Saintfield Development Association have been busy over the holiday period dislodging dirt at the sides of roads around the village in advance of the eagerly anticipated arrival of the Down District Council road sweeping lorry.

Litter Pick Belfast Road – 6 bags
Downpatrick Street (behind shops) – 2 bags
New Line play park – 1 bag
Old Grand Jury Road – 1 bag
Listooder Road – 1 bag
Crossgar Road – 3 bags

Gutters scraped on:
Ballynahinch Road
Listooder Road
Old Grand Jury Road
Crossgar Road
Belfast Road
Windmill Road
Station Road

11 bags of weeds collected on waste ground on Crossgar Road
1 bag of waste gathered at the bus stop on Crossgar Road

Running total of bags of waste collected = 154.5 bags

The Ballygowan Road, at its junction with the Belfast Road.

Entrance to the site of the new Saintfield Community Centre, before cleaning …

… and after cleaning …

…  with the bags of dirt awaiting collection by Down District Council.

Dislodging the dirt on Windmill Road in preparation for the road sweeping lorry.

Before and after shots on the Belfast Road, looking towards Belfast …

Before and after shots on the Belfast Road, looking towards Saintfield …

Scraped gutters on New Line, Downpatrick Street and Lisburn Road.

Cleaned weeds and dirt from the flower bed at the end of New Line (8 bags).

Down Your Street bag total to date = 122.5.

(Unfortunately the Down District Council road sweeping lorry didn’t make it to Saintfield today after all.  It was sent elsewhere for more important cleaning duties!)

Tuesday 8th July : Health Centre car park. Weeded and swept pavement and gutter by wall bordering the grass area. 4 bags of muck. See before ‘n after photos of this area.

Weds 9th July : Health Centre car park. Removed bramble in corner, cut away shrub in wall. Swept pavement in front of church hall and clinic. 11 bags of muck and 1 cubic metre garden waste bag full of weeds and cuttings.

Thurs 10th July: Health Centre car park area. Weeded flower bed in front of church. Part-weeded the shrubbery at very top of car park by church entrance. Scraped gutters all around top of car park and the approach roads to car park. Also did Ballynahinch Road gutters both sides ready for road sweeping lorry. 2 bags muck. Found bag of dog poo in shrubbery and left it on path with a note. Both were gone by next morning.

Also cleaned signs at car park, the “walk around Saintfield” information sign on Fair Green and the two “walk Saintfield” signs in Main Street and Downpatrick Street.

Fri 11th July: Lisburn Road beyond mini-roundabout: Scraped and swept pavement round corner by flower bed and along Lisburn road to junction with Fair View. Scraped gutters round islands on Lisburn and Ballynahinch Roads.

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE!

Before cleaning …

and after cleaning …

Comber Street
Comber Road
Belfast Road
Old Grand Jury
Downpatrick Street
Todds Hill
Station Road

in advance of the appearance of Down District Council‘s road sweeping lorry in Saintfield on Friday 11th July.

If you see the lorry in action please take a photograph of it and email it to:

info [at] discoversaintfield [dot] com

Saturday 14/6/14
Time 0900 – 1100am
Litter Pick Fairview, Clinic Car Park, Ballynahinch Road to 30 MPH sign.
2 black bags of rubbish.

Wednesday 18/6/14
Time 0800 – 0930am
Litter Pick Fairview, Clinic car park, Ballynahinch Road
1 black bag of rubbish.

Monday 23/6/14
Time 0730 – 0830am
Litter Pick and sweep of cigarette butts – car park 2nd Saintfield Pres. Church.
1/2 black bag of rubbish.

Wednesday 25/6/14
Time 0730 – 0830am
Litter Pick – Ballynahinch Road to Drumnaconnell Road.
1/2 black bag of rubbish.

Saturday 28/6/14
Time 0800 – 0900am
Litter Pick and sweep of cigarette butts – Clinic Car Park.
1/2 black bag rubbish.

Tuesday 1/7/14
0800 – 0830am
Litter Pick/Butts – Clinic Car Park.
1/2 black bag rubbish

Monday 7/7/14
0800 – 0900am
Litter Pick – Ballynahinch Road
1/2 black bag of rubbish

26 bags of dirt were collected on Belfast Road by volunteers from Saintfield Development Association as part of the Down Your Street campaign.  Both sides of the road, footpaths and road entrances were cleaned from the traffic lights to Claddagh Hill and from Cotswold Downs to the former Hocks’n’Hooves building.

Belfast Road after the Down Your Street campaign volunteers have been in action.

Just some of the 26 bags of dirt collected on a short stretch of the Belfast Road by volunteers from Saintfield Development Association.

Would you be willing to help the Down Your Street campaign?  Even volunteering for a short time can help to make a difference!

Please contact:  info [at] discoversaintfield [dot] com

1 volunteer in action

Windmill Road – 1 bag rubbish

Station Road (30 MPH sign to the bridge) – 6 bags of rubbish

8.00 pm to 10.00 pm

1 volunteer

Parish Church car park – 1 bag
Lisburn Road to junction with the Old Belfast Road – 2 bags
Old Belfast Road to the 30MPH sign – 2 bags

Total for the evening = 5 bags

A lady was also seen cleaning the parking bay at the terrace on Fair Green just off the Lisburn Road.  Thank you.

Please consider removing any weeds and/or litter you find in front of your house.  If everybody took part it would make light work of keeping Saintfield clean and tidy!  Join the Down Your Street initiative!  For more information on how you can help please contact:

info [at] discoversaintfield [dot] com

Saintfield Development Association’s Green Saintfield Committee have been in action again.  Litter pick latest:

Saturday 28/06/2014

ADOPT A SPOT – Moyra Drive (Waste ground and fields behind houses)

1 volunteer – 10:00 am to 12:00 pm then 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm

11 bags litter &  2 bags recyclables (see photo)

Sunday 29/06/2014

Cleaned up gutters & pavements on Upper Main Street North/South sides and The Square.

10:30 am to 11:30 am – 3 volunteers
1:00 pm to 6:00 pm – 1 volunteer

11 bags of dirt to be collected by DDC dust cart.

Running total: 49 bags