We’re investing a further £750,000 this year to give the city a deep clean so it continues to look its best for residents, visitors and businesses.
Teams have already carried out work in the city centre and a number of other areas and are now moving onto other town centres and priority areas. The extra crews are power washing streets, pavements, historic monuments and statues, stonework and place markings as well as removing chewing gum and using steam cleaners to remove weeds where needed. Our dedicated graffiti teams are also hitting the streets every day to keep Edinburgh looking good.
We’ll do our best to keep disruption to residents and businesses to a minimum.
Keep an eye out on social media for before and after photos as we work our way around the city.
Where our Edinburgh Refresh team has been so far:
- Joppa
- Restalrig
- Portobello
- Lochend
- Leith Central
- Morningside and Bruntsfield
- Tollcross
- City Centre
- South Queensferry
- Corstorphine (St John's Road)
- Gorgie / Dalry
During March we're carrying out more deep cleans in the Nicolson Street / Clerk Street areas, before moving on to our other town centres. The locations covered focus on the main commercial town centres and shopping streets. You can find more information on selected areas in the Edinburgh Local Development Plan.
We’ll use this page to keep you up to date with when we plan to be in your area, although do please be aware we might need to make late changes due to severe weather events, particularly during the winter months.