FOI release

Litter reports in parks

Case reference FOI2026/01308

Received 10 August 2026

Published 12 August 2026

Request

For the period 1 January 2021 to 31 July 2026 inclusive, please provide the number of reports or service requests received concerning litter or rubbish in council-owned or council-managed parks and public open spaces. Please provide the figures broken down by individual park/site and calendar year, ideally in the following format: Park/site name | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 1 Jan–31 Jul 2026 Where your system already records whether the report relates specifically to a playground or children's play area, please also indicate this or provide the number of those reports separately. Please use the park/site name and categories as they are recorded in your existing system. I am not asking the council to manually review free-text descriptions to determine whether an incident occurred within a playground. I do not require copies of reports, complainant details, photographs or descriptions of individual incidents. If records are not held for the full period requested, please provide the information that is held and state the earliest date available.

Response

Our records are maintained in financial years. No incidents involved children's play area or playgrounds. We have excluded allotments as these are often clearing after a tenant has handed back the plot to the Council. All below are classed as public parks.

21/22 - 5 incidents of rubbish - Oak Road, Colebrook x 2, Calverley Grounds, Dunorlan.

23/24 - 3 incidents - Oak Road, Colebrook x 2

25/26 - 11 incidents - Barnetts Wood x 2, Colebrook, Mary Caley, Sherwood Lake x2, The Grove x2, St Johns Meadow, Grosvenor and Hilbert, Oak Road.

Documents

There are no documents for this release.

This is Tunbridge Wells Borough Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.