https://www.ealing.gov.uk/xfp/form/372 Ealing does provide bags for autumn street sweepings by residents.  The Environment Agency AFAIK still deems them unsuitable/too contaminated for composting.  You do need to ask the Councils for bags and to tell them so that these bags can be collected.  Unfortunately its true and LBE does not seem to be able to liaise to get a quick collection of what (I think) are their official operative collected bags - but we can report them and they should make that easy. I think we should all notify the Council when there are heavy leaf or crab apple falls so that they can be swept and taken away if we can.  There are definitely sudden leaf falls at different times depending on the weather. Perhaps one day each tree will notify the Council for itself when and how great a number of leaves and apples and blossom it has dropped (like some of the litter bins which can tell them how full they are and whether they need emptying - which means better targeted collections and fewer collection vehicles on the road - but we're not there yet! I agree with Peter that if we do this, it does put people out of work - if they will do the work and many people only think of cost.  I have also recently seen in parks this being done by people presumably as a result of a court appearance.  Some of which we consider Council responsibilities we can help with - others we can't.  The community litterpicks seem to be a great success.  I do applaud the Original Poster (OP) for his public spiritedness and maybe - wouldn't it be good - if his neighbours pitched in?   It's true that leaves etc tend to be left until they are all mushed up and then can block the drains and become someone else's responsibility...  but that could be seriously inconvenient for us all and a fall on slippery leaves can be life changing if not fatal for any of us - as can damaged pavements.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Leaves	07/10/25 14:25:00	John Day
Re:Leaves	07/10/25 15:55:00	Janice Evans
Re:Re:Leaves	07/10/25 18:08:00	Peter Evans
Re:Re:Re:Leaves	07/10/25 18:26:00	Julian Pavey
Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	07/10/25 20:34:00	Peter King
Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	09/10/25 19:19:00	Davey Harris
Re:Leaves	08/10/25 15:24:00	Iris Hill
Re:Leaves	08/10/25 16:19:00	Paul James
Re:Re:Leaves	08/10/25 20:05:00	Peter Evans
Re:Re:Re:Leaves	09/10/25 17:25:00	Janice Evans
Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	09/10/25 18:13:00	Peter Evans
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	09/10/25 19:32:00	Steve Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	09/10/25 19:49:00	Janice Evans
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	10/10/25 09:05:00	Paul James
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	10/10/25 09:23:00	Janice Evans
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	10/10/25 09:59:00	Simon Hayes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	10/10/25 11:00:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	10/10/25 11:36:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	10/10/25 11:47:00	Janice Evans
Re:Re:Re:Leaves	10/10/25 15:02:00	Paul James
Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	10/10/25 15:32:00	Simon Hayes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	11/10/25 13:22:00	Claire Moran
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	11/10/25 15:54:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	11/10/25 17:04:00	Claire Moran
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	11/10/25 18:07:00	Simon Hayes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	11/10/25 18:10:00	Denis I. Fox
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	11/10/25 18:35:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Leaves	11/10/25 23:38:00	Claire Moran
Re:Leaves	12/10/25 10:56:00	Bhavesh Gohil
Re:Leaves	12/10/25 11:37:00	Jonathan Wilkinson
Re:Re:Leaves	12/10/25 14:14:00	Julian Pavey
Re:Leaves	13/10/25 01:06:00	Tony Antares
Re:Re:Leaves	13/10/25 07:23:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Leaves	13/10/25 21:15:00	Peter King

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