Residents in Greenford Broadway made the most calls to Ealing Council’s Pest Control department to report rats in their homes than any other ward in the borough, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
During 2022, 21 calls were made by locals in the ward to report rats within their home, representing 14% of all call outs to homes across the borough. By comparison, Greenford Green had the least amount of call outs with just 1 being reported inside the home.
The data comes from an FOI request made by MyLondon and revealed a total of 243 calls were made by residents across the borough for inside their homes and also outside of it.
In total, both inside and outside the home, Greenford Broadway tops the league table with 35 calls being made – 21 inside the home and 14 outside.
The ward names shown are those prior to the renaming of some of them that were made in 2022 such as North Acton and North Hanwell.
The council has responsibility for properties it owns and rents out as council homes. For Ealing residents living in private homes, the council’s commercial pest control team charge up to £95 to deal with rats.
In a comment to MyLondon, a council spokesperson said: “Residential streets are cleaned regularly. Standard cleaning takes place either weekly, fortnightly or three-weekly and includes removing litter, broken glass, animal mess and small fly-tips. Deep cleaning takes place four times a year and includes standard cleaning plus weeds, blossom, leaves and the build-up of dirt and grit. Town centres and transport hubs are cleaned daily and all street litter bins are emptied at least once a day.”
