These are the brilliant individuals who keep the streets clean for local businesses in Liverpool.
The team of six have over the past 12 months cleaned 20 miles of pavement, removed 700 stickers and graffiti, and cleared up 200 private areas.
Set up in August 2018 following a £250,000 investment by the Business Improvement District (BID), the BID Street Rangers help brighten and restore levy payers’ paving, footways and doorways, along with providing extra cleansing and maintenance services to public spaces across the BID area.
Shaun Holland, head of operations at Liverpool BID Company, said: "The idea for the BID Street Rangers came about following extensive dialogue with our levy paying businesses who expressed a need for additional cleaning in the areas surrounding their premises.
"We understand that a clean and welcoming trading environment is a successful one.
"I am incredibly proud of the team and what they have achieved in their first twelve months of operation - they have become familiar and friendly faces in the community during their daily patrols - and following the positive feedback we have received from our members, it is our intention to continue with the scheme for the foreseeable future.”
The work done by the team is in additional cleansing and maintenance service to those already provided by Liverpool City Council via Liverpool Streetscene Services (LSSL).
The Street Rangers form part of the BID's core objectives to create and maintain attractive areas people will want to visit, in the hope of enabling levy paying businesses in the area to prosper.
Liverpool BID Company represent 1,500 businesses in two BIDs - Retail & Leisure BID, which includes the areas in and around Bold Street, Church Street, Lord Street, Williamson Square, Metquarter, St Johns, Cavern Quarter and Queen Square - and Commercial District BID, which incorporates in and around Castle Street, Victoria Street, Exchange Flags, Old Hall Street and St Paul's Square.
Led by BID head of operations, Shaun Holland, the team of six rangers undertake a planned, daily, cleaning and maintenance programme, following consultation with BID levy paying businesses, Liverpool City Council and LSSL.
Tasks include street washing, overpainting private street furniture and levy payers' buildings (including red post boxes, electric sub stations, electric junction boxes and alley gates), repainting and refreshing public street furniture (for example, the wooden benches in Williamson Square, Derby Square and Castle Street), and checking all thirteen rear alley gates within the BID area to ensure they are in working order and are closed to ensure security is maintained and health and safety issues are avoided.
The team are also responsible for watering the sixteen hanging baskets provided by the BID in Bold Street, plus the three trees on Ormond Street.
