Your York BID 
Street Cleaning
Keeping our city beautiful and clean
Your York BID
Street Cleaning
Keeping our city beautiful and clean
York BID is committed to providing additional services to the core operations provided by the local authority and enhancing the city centre’s environment so that street and public spaces throughout are cleaner than ever before.
Our cleaning team are out early every morning visiting ‘hotspots’ to clean away the mess left behind at night. This includes biowaste, drug debris, graffiti and homeless litter.
They then start responding to requests logged by our businesses on the Rapid Response Cleaning Service. This indispensable service is available to all levy paying businesses to keep the entranceways and footpaths outside their premises sparkling and ready for customers.
To use the Rapid Response service simply call the number on this page and leave a message with your contact details and a description of the issue.
Rapid Response Hotline: 01904 900181
Operation times: 6am-2pm, 7 days a week
During 8 years of BID operations, our Street Cleaning team have achieved:
34,697
Reports of biowaste (human/animal/food etc.) cleaned up
548,942m2
Of pavements jet washed
28,167
Number of bins, benches & alleyways cleaned
1,169,660
Pieces of chewing gum removed
1,976
Rapid response call outs answered
During 8 years of BID operations our Street Cleaning team have achieved:
34,697
Reports of biowaste (human/animal/food etc.) cleaned up
548,942m2
Of pavements jet washed
28,167
Number of bins, benches & alleyways cleaned
1,169,660
Pieces of chewing gum removed
1,976
Rapid response call outs answered