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  Sadly DDC do not seem to monitor the situation.
  
  At the Dover Town Neighbourhood Forum Meeting on the 3rd June the DDC Head of Community Development and Waste Services (Roger Walton) showed little intertest when the problem was raised by someone from Folkestone Road.
  
  All that was said was that after rubbish collection days the Contractor has 48hrs (excluding Sat and Sun) to clear any "dropped waste" so in effect this could be around for 4 days if a Friday collection. Also it is the Contractor who is responsible for monitoring the cleaning standards.
  
  I ,as on many other occassions, pushed for more fines on the offenders in respect to general litter but again this was not considered to be implementable by Mr Walton. I again expressed how other towns/cities have resolved their "filth" problem by exercising a strict control including fines.
  
  There is a new Contract being drawn up by DDC and I feel there should be strict standards of delivery within the contract and that it is monitored by DDC who at present seem disinterested in spot checking of the service that we the ratepayers are paying for.There is a National "Clean Britain Awards" scheme that many towns/cities participate in and if the Dover Contract had objectives of say in Year1 to achieve ***, Year 2 ****, Year 3 ***** then this would in effect be one of the measurable standards that are monitored on a independant basis.
  
  The above is how I see DDC in general re the rubbish/filth in Dover. However if there are individual problems (Fly-tipping etc) I have to say in general from our area of Dover the problem has been looked into and generally resolved when reported to DDC.

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