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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…

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…

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…

Members of Saintfield Development Association scraped the gutters beside the kerbs of: 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…

Members of Saintfield Development Association have been in action in the Ballynahinch Road area: 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…

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…

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…

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…