Bristol City Centre BID’s Cleansing Team is out seven days a week improving the appearance of our city streets.
Tom and Simon are our dedicated cleansing operatives. They drive a specialist electric pump van equipped to jet wash pavements and remove graffiti. They work from Thursday morning to Monday morning.
Tony (temporary cover) drives our scrub deck machine, which is shared across the 3 central Bristol BIDs. This machine works closely with the pump vans sucking up wastewater left on the street after a jet wash and removes debris and small bits of litter. This machine operates weekday mornings.
Between them, the team work seven days a week to improve the appearance of our city’s streets and respond to requests for cleansing and graffiti removal from the businesses. We operate in close partnership with Bristol Waste Company.
This is a service offered to levy paying businesses who can request the following services:
If you would like to request one of these services, please contact cleansing@bristolcitycentrebid.co.uk with a photo clearly showing the location and scope of the work. We will respond efficiently to each request and arrange a time for the team to visit you.
Please note, some tags are applied in ways that make it very challenging to remove, depending on the surface material or chemical used in the paint or marker. As a result, we are not able to remove to every instance of tagging.
If your building has been tagged, we strongly encourage you to report this to the Police as criminal damage. If you have CCTV footage, please include this in your report. The more reports the police receive, the more they understand the issue of graffiti in the city centre and can respond accordingly.
We are incredibly grateful to our team for the hard work they put in in all weathers early in the morning. If you see them out and about, do stop to say hello.
In March, the cleansing team covered 295 miles on their weekly rounds, cleaning Queens Road, Park Street, Baldwin Street, the Old City, and the Harbourside. Their deep clean locations in March were College Green, St Augustine’s Yard and Wine Street, removing as many as 95 items of graffiti and responding to a massive 17 levy payer requests along the way.
Across 2024, our wonderful team removed 1,415 items of graffiti, cleaned 4,165 miles of pavement and responded to 140 levy payer requests.
