Category: Down Your Street – Team Up To Clean Up!

10.30 – 13.00 on the Crossgar Road: 26 bags collected. (13 from traffic lights to Old Grand Jury Road and 13 from Old Grand Jury Road to Gateway sign.) 15.30 – 17.30 on the Ballynahinch Road from the 30MPH sign to Drumaconnell Road: 9 bags of waste lifted. Down Your Street campaign = 309.5 bags… Continue reading Clean On 3rd August

SDA’s Green Saintfield Committee members have been out on the roads again: Date: Thursday 31st July 2014 Time: 7.00pm to 9.00pm Flower bed weeded at Saintfield High School – 3 bags Footpath on Belfast Road cleaned to Comber Road – 7 bags of dirt Traffic island at Ballgowan Road junction tidied up – 1 bag of dirt… Continue reading Thursday 31st July

Saintfield Development Association’s Green Saintfield Committee have been in action again: Date: Wednesday 30th July 2014 Lisburn Road 5 bags of litter collected

One Saintfield Development Association volunteer in action: Former Hocks ‘n’ Hooves building ground and Birch Lane area (0.75 acre) – 10 bags ragwort and 1 bag litter removed Station Road – 5 bags ragwort and 1 bag of litter Old Grand Jury Road – 1 bag of ragwort Belfast Road – 1 bag ragwort and… Continue reading Ragwort Removal

Two SDA volunteers (Team Mackender) in action again: Cut back the overgrown foliage which was poking out over the pavement at the left of the car park. Scraped and swept the area at the top where recycling bins used to be. Scraped and swept pavement on left-hand-side of park. Scraped and cleared the entry in… Continue reading Car Park Progress Report

The Down District Council road sweeping lorry arrives in Saintfield and begins to remove the dirt that has been dislodged from the gutters by members of Saintfield Development Association.

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… Continue reading Preparations For The Road Sweeping Lorry

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… Continue reading Friday 11th July

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… Continue reading Down Your Street Update By Other Volunteers