22/10/2026
🌿🧹 Taking Pride in Our Town – Street Scene Team in Action!
Last Friday, our Street Scene Team were out at Lutwyche Close, responding to concerns raised by local residents about significant vegetation growth along the kerbs, footpaths and highway, as well as a heavily overgrown and blocked drain.
These issues had been reported through FixMyStreet, with some concerns remaining unresolved for many months.
Rather than simply continuing to report the problems and wait, we decided to see what we could do to help! 💪
Two members of our team, including our Town Clerk, who swapped his desk for some outdoor maintenance work for the morning, got stuck in and cleared a substantial amount of vegetation, making a noticeable improvement for residents.
🏡 Our approach is simple: if we can help, we will.
Through our Street Scene service and fortnightly Find & Fix activities, we’re taking a proactive approach to identifying and tackling longstanding issues across our parish.
While many of these matters remain the responsibility of other authorities, we believe that working together, taking initiative and making the best use of our resources can make a real difference.
We wrote to residents at Lutwyche Close ahead of the work and have since followed up with Shropshire Council to highlight the improvements made and request further action, including appropriate w**d management and professional jetting of the drainage gully, which requires specialist equipment beyond our own capabilities.
🌳 A small team making a big difference.
Our Street Scene Team also continues to improve and maintain street furniture, signage and other public spaces throughout the parish.
We don’t have unlimited resources, and we cannot take on every issue, but we have a fantastic team who take genuine pride in our local area and are always willing to go that extra mile for our community.
📣 Know somewhere that needs attention?
Whether you’re in Church Stretton, All Stretton, Little Stretton, Minton or anywhere else within the Town Council’s parish boundary, we’d love to hear from you!
If there’s an area that you feel could benefit from our help, please get in touch. We’ll happily take a look and consider what we can reasonably do, taking account of our resources, safety requirements and the responsibilities of other authorities.
Sometimes making a difference is simply about seeing a problem and being willing to do something about it.
👏 A big thank you to our hardworking team and to the residents who continue to help us identify areas for improvement.
💚 Your Town. Our Pride. Working Together.
