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I adore having the Saturday market just round the corner from where I live.


However I'm disappointed to have to walk through dirt and smelly paddles of dirty liquids on my way home on a Saturday evening.


Does anyone else think that there should need a clean and wash of the street soon after the market closes?


Or is it just me to be OCD about cleaning and wading through rubbish and dirt is kind of OK?


I also fear for an increase in mice and rats growth in the area...

The Market and late night bars and takeaways have led to an influx of people to the area.


They leave a lot of their rubbish behind.


E.D. is no longer an undiscovered Gem.


Sadly the place is rapidly becoming a diagrace.


Discarded Kebab, Fried Chicken and Pizza boxes...


Piles of Tat outside the numerous Charity Shops, Beggars, Drunks.


Not a pretty site..


I suppose asking some people to place their Rubbish in a bin....


.. is like expecting a bear to crap in a toilet..


Fox.

northlondoner Wrote:

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> Is it me or is street cleaning in ED now really

> abysmal? Area is looking quite scruffy once you

> leave LL


xxxxxx


I live near North Cross Road and I quite often see our street cleaner at work in my road or the streets around it.


I think he does a really good job, but obviously he can't be everywhere at once so if someone drops litter just after he's cleaned a street, it's hardly his fault!

rats and mice have also moved to the area...


perhaps one cleaner is not enough? perhaps the street needs to be WASHED every saturday evening?


I'm surprised people on north cross road and adjacent streets are not complaining, north cross road on a saturday afternoon after the market is horrid.

Sue Wrote:

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> qotsa79 Wrote:

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> > rats and mice have also moved to the area...

> >

>

> xxxxxxx

>

> There have been rats and mice round here for

> years, as I'm sure in most parts of


They say you are never more than 10ft ?? away from a Rat..


Well now in N.C. Rd. You get to see them...


Never used to actually see them..


I also saw one whilst sitting outside the Bishop.

It was crossing East Dulwich Grove.


They are about in the daytime and early evening before the Foxes come out to scavange.


Fox.

DulwichFox Wrote:

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>

> They say you are never more than 10ft ?? away from

> a Rat..

>

> Well now in N.C. Rd. You get to see them...

>


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Hate to tell you this Foxy, there was one in our road last year.


It got stuck halfway down a hole in the pavement with its bum and horrid scaly ratty tail sticking out of the hole. Another resident of the road pushed it down the hole with his foot, and it disappeared.


Sadly I didn't have my camera with me :)


ETA: This was in broad daylight in the middle of the day :(

On the subject of sitting outside pubs, it's just possible the streets would be cleaner if the cleaning staff spent less time sitting on the benches outside the Palmerstone ( have I got the right pub name? the one on the junction of North X road..) They're there regularly, not at what might be lunch break times. I don't know when my street was last swept, some of the rubbish is now part of the permanent scene.

Lynne

Lynne Wrote:

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> On the subject of sitting outside pubs, it's just

> possible the streets would be cleaner if the

> cleaning staff spent less time sitting on the

> benches outside the Palmerstone ( have I got the

> right pub name? the one on the junction of North X

> road..) They're there regularly, not at what might

> be lunch break times. I don't know when my street

> was last swept, some of the rubbish is now part of

> the permanent scene.

> Lynne


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I have only ever seen the street cleaners at work.


I've never once seen them sitting down, outside the Palmerston (sic) or anywhere else, and I live just round the corner.


And if they are, so what? People get breaks other than at lunch times.


If you think your street isn't being swept when it should be, you should complain to the council. Dissing people on here isn't likely to get your street clean, and it's a bit unfair to make insinuations when presumably you have no idea what their work schedule is.

'smelly paddles'


is this due to

a. the fish van, about which many have already commented on other threads

b. the rain, keeping everything wet and puddly?


increased sightings of rats


the rain and attendant flooding has driven the poor creatures out of their usual haunts and they are having to go out and about in daytime outside their normal hours


street cleaners


I've seen them hard at work right through the week dealing with the stuff that people insist on dumping on the street

I wouldn't expect a street cleaner to be working after hours on a Saturday, would you? The stall holders also have a responsibility to clean up, and from what I can see, most of them do a decent job - although the smelly fish van could do more to hose its bit of the pavement down.

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