Blue garden waste bags

[edgrove13]

I’ve noticed Southwark blue garden waste bags dotted along roads - Melbourne grove, bawdale, and they seem to have bits of bushes in them. Does anyone know what is going on? Is the council pruning along the road? Seems too many to be individual people putting them out for collection. My road has a lot of big bushes on it so I’m hoping the council might be doing mine next! 

[Moovart]

It's the start of the autumn council sweep up of fallen leaves.

Edited October 2, 2025 by Moovart

[Penguin68]

Two guys were going down the south end of Underhill cleaning leaves from pavements and gutters and hoeing to remove grasses and weeds. They were doing a good job as well. And filling lots of blue bags. Lot more leaves to fall, however, so I hope they'll be back! 

[CPR Dave]

Seems a waste to squander one of the bi-annual leaf collections on a day when all the leaves are still on the trees. 

In a few weeks time the paths will be strewn with wet rotting slippery leaves, (hiding countless piles of dog shit left behind by the selfish dog owners of East Dulwich) and the Council will do nothing because the scheduled collection has already happened.