The Maintenance Team currently consists of four Maintenance Operatives, who work extremely hard to keep Birchwood clean, tidy and an attractive area to live in.

	Frank Robinson                                   Maintenance Team Supervisor		Steve Johnson Maintenance Operative
	Steve Cross Maintenance Operative		Jason Blyth Maintenance Operative

 What does the Team do?

You will probably have seen 'the lads' in our distinctive vans driving round the area, or in our recently acquired tipper truck.  The Team undertakes a wide variety of tasks including litter picking, bulky waste collections, landscape maintenance, some footpath gritting in extreme icy conditions, creating, installing and maintaining the hanging baskets around Birchwood Mall (paid for by the landlords), cleaning the recycling bays at Birchwood Mall, checking several play areas daily, along with various other tasks as they crop up.

 As the Town Council does not own any land in Birchwood (with the exception of our car park and a small piece of land adjacent to our office) and any landscaping or other maintenance cannot be done without the permission of the landowners, the Town Council works in partnership with other local organisations, which the Team liaise with on a regular basis.

The two main landowners in the area are Warrington Borough Council and Frontis Homes, although there are also pockets of land that are owned by The Woodland Trust, the Home and Communities Agency, The Diocese of Liverpool and a few private landlords - it can be a bit difficult at times trying to find the right landlord to ask for permission to undertake necessary work.

All the members of the Maintenance Team have undergone specific training for the work they carry out and this training is upated regularly.  There are some aspects of landscape maintenance they are not trained for, such as cutting down large trees; in cases such as this the landowner would have to give permission and arrange to have the work done.