Should we offer to sweep leaves on our streets?

A council's entreaty for residents to assistance expanse streets of fallen leaves has raked up beardown opinions.

Cardiff assembly is promoting its 'Big Sweep' strategy arsenic autumn brings a caller autumn of leaves connected roads and pavements.

However others said volunteering helps marque communities cleaner - and closer.

The section authorization said thoroughfare cleansing teams person a acceptable regular for each portion of the metropolis but are incapable "be everyplace astatine once".

They are besides incapable to determination parked cars, which is wherefore they are providing bags for consenting residents to expanse up leaves connected their ain street.

But the initiative, present successful its seventh year, has received a mixed effect with galore calling it a "joke".

One nonmigratory said connected societal media: "We wage assembly taxation for this to beryllium done and you privation america to bash it ourselves."

Another added: "Provide bags and you'll cod them? Sorry you've provided bins and you are expected to cod those!"

One Facebook idiosyncratic responded to the appeal: "If you tin supply and pickup afloat bags wherefore can't you proceed collecting greenish bins. Just bash your occupation for which we pay! Cardiff arsenic a metropolis is getting dirtier and dirtier."

However galore residents person gladly taken up the challenge, specified arsenic a radical of parents successful Llandaff North and Gabalfa known arsenic YGC Rebel Mams.

They person been holding leaf-sweeping days for the past 3 years and said their children thoroughly bask getting involved.

Organiser Pam French said: "It's a beauteous happening to bash arsenic a assemblage and seems to beryllium the item of our eight-year-old's year."

Mrs French added: "I get everyone complaining and it shouldn't beryllium down to individuals but the kids emotion it. As soon arsenic the leaves crook brownish they commencement asking erstwhile is the large sweep.

"They [children] don't deliberation astir whether idiosyncratic other should beryllium doing it. They spot a occupation successful their thoroughfare and deliberation they tin bash thing astir it. It's really precise empowering.

"It's beauteous pugnacious work, but precise satisfying."

Another nonmigratory said connected societal media: "It's called 'taking pridefulness successful your neighbourhood', similar sweeping and washing the pavements extracurricular your location similar your large grand-mothers utilized to do, alternatively of sitting backmost and saying 'not my job'."

Cardiff assembly said the programme was established by the assemblage and had proved "extremely popular" with hundreds of residents taking part.

A spokesperson said: "The thought of the Big Sweep isn't for the nationalist to transportation retired enactment that the assembly volition beryllium doing, but to scope retired to assemblage groups and individuals that are established crossed the city, who unpaid to assistance out.

"The sweeps engender goodwill and two-way respect betwixt the residents and assembly staff.

"The wider Love Where You Live run was devised to bring communities together, truthful that residents tin instrumentality pridefulness successful the communities that they unrecorded in, though it is accepted that immoderate radical volition ever beryllium antagonistic towards unpaid assemblage schemes similar this."

The assembly added that roadside greenish bin collections volition beryllium suspended for December, January and February aft probe recovered plot discarded fell by 80% implicit the winter.