00:00Great skies, bit of rain, but every day in Leeds City Centre, the team behind...
00:05me, the Leeds Bid Street Rangers are out, keeping our city centre clean and it's...
00:10one of our pivotal projects because businesses say to us they want a clean, safe and friendly...
00:15city centre and keeping it clean is really, really important. These guys behind me are up...
00:20in the early hours making sure our city centre is clean, getting rid of graffiti...
00:25chewing gum.
00:26That starts at six o'clock and we drag all our machinery out, obviously this time...
00:30of year it's dark and cold at six o'clock in the morning.
00:35And we go to various locations around the city centre and doing what you can see we're doing this.
00:40morning which is clearing all the chewing gum off and all the grime from...
00:45the precinct.
00:46We clean the equivalent of the inner ring road eight times.
00:50a year just in the city centre just to keep it clean and when you think that's just six...
00:55we're prioritised with a modest amount of money that's paid for by the business community.
01:00In actual fact, they do an extremely good job and more can be done because if we don't keep the city...
01:05...the centre clean, there won't be the investment, people who live here, more students and so on, it's growing.
01:10So we need to strategically think that we're ahead of the game in terms of making sure the basics...
01:15...are done to keep Leeds clean, safe and friendly.
01:19We're seven days away...
01:20...we're out in all weathers. Small team, as you can appreciate...
01:25...we get around the whole city centre, they do a great job.
01:30Not just deep cleaning and removal of Turing Room from the streets.
01:35We do a lot of work for the levied payers in their doorways, removing some of the litter.
01:40That we see in those doorways. So yeah, they do a great job.
01:43You get satisfaction when people come up and...
01:45...explain to you how wonderful the city is looking.
01:50You'll get an occasional grumpy person walking past looking down at you, but...
01:55...in general, yeah. And when you've done it, you can compare what you've done.
02:00...to how it was. Yeah, and it's great.
02:03Currently the boilers that we use...
02:05...are greener, they reuse the heat...
02:08...they heat up the water and they re...
02:10...we use the water.
02:11Electric vehicles, which you see behind me...
02:13...and specialist state-of-the-art kits.
02:15...that we've developed ourselves to respond to the demands of the city centre.
02:20You never see anyone dropping chewing gum, so...
02:22...but they obviously must, so it'd be nice just to...
02:25...so like, have a second thought.
02:27It's been about the city centre with the litter.
02:30...and the chewing gum just displays them.
02:32It is very satisfying to see when you come to a street...
02:35...it's dirty, it's got gum all over it...
02:37...and then to see that clean completely...
02:40...it's probably in place the guys have just finished.
02:42It just, it brings up the stone.
02:44It looks immaculate.
02:45It really does.
02:46I think a key thing is collaboration...
02:47...working with statutory partners to then say, oh...
02:50...how do we can maintain this standard, this standard of excellence...
02:54...and we can only do...
02:55...that by working collaboratively together, investing together...
02:58...as the city grows and expands.
03:00...because...
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