Throughout the year, we carry out a cleansing, sweeping and weeding treatment programme to maintain all the garage blocks within Stevenage. This is to ease the build-up of litter and debris from the blocks and to suppress weed growth and development.

• A fortnightly litter pick.
• Mechanically sweeps on a continuous cycle, moving counter-clocking around the town, starting in St Nicholas and finishing in Martins Wood.
• Up to 3 weed treatment applications per year.
• Ad-hoc works outside the stated schedules.

From September 2025 information about which blocks are due for cleansing the following week will be updated on our garages news page.

This is covered in the cost of garage tenants weekly licence fee. If you own a garage within a block you will be required to pay a proportion of the annual cost, £16.40 for 2025/26.

Please refer to the 'frequently asked questions' for questions relating to this charge.

To report an issue within a garage block please use the link below.

 Litter picking

Litter picking is carried out on a fortnightly cycle, as below.

Weed treatments and cleansing of the block

A weed treatment is applied two to three times a year. This is to suppress weed growth and development. Weeds that are dead and tall standing are removed when sweeping is completed but please note that some are left in situ as removing them can open up the area for new weeds to grow.

Mechanical road sweepers attend the blocks on a quarterly basis to clear any loose debris and sweep the area providing that vehicles are not blocking any access. Work may be required outside the last visit and can be reported online via the fly tipping in garage compounds page.

The list below shows the cycles for completing the mechanical sweeps. Please note that this is an estimate and may be subject to change.

• St Nicolas
• Pin Green
• Old Town/Coreys Mill
• Symonds Green
• Bedwell
• Broadwater/Bragbury End
• Shephall
• Chells
• Martins Wood

Our Street Scene team have been out and about over the last few months cleaning up our garage blocks.

The garage blocks won’t always look this clean due to weather, littering and nature, and may often look untidy when they are waiting for their turn to be cleaned.

You can report an issue with a garage block using the button near the top of this page.

Are you selling your property?

When selling your property and/or garage, please ensure your solicitors are advised of the freeholder cleansing, sweeping and weeding annual charge. 

There is a charge of £40.02 to provide this information and account balances to solicitors. The council should be informed of the new owner details upon completion of the sale.