Goose Green community meeting 18th Jan: keeping East Dulwich clean

[HeatherP]

I’ve seen the signs too as I live on East Dulwich Road. The green itself has had leaf clearing at least twice but there’s been no sign of sweeping the road on the north side. Drains are continually blocked even though residents do help clear from time to time. No response from the council after repeated requests about when this road can be swept. Getting to be a hazard with the wet weather making it very slippery. Any other routes to get some action on this?

[first mate]

If every able-bodied resident (including young people) swept and bagged up leaves outside their place of residence two to three times through late autumn and early winter the job would be done.

Save fees for the gym or Peleton and do a bit of leaf clearing instead.

[CPR Dave]

And would we get a rebate on our council tax too?

[first mate]

CPR Dave,I doubt it and I understand why you say that. But the council is in a fix money-wise and this is one small thing most of us could do to make all our lives a bit better. 

[rjsmall]

Unfortunately it replies upon residents having a place put the leaves. Seems a bit slack of the council to not clear the leaves from the tress and rely upon residents to put them in a brown bin which they also have to pay the council to have.

[heartblock]

East Dulwich Grove where children walk to school hasn’t been cleaned for ages, slippery and dangerous. Calton Avenue, cleaned on a regular basis. If you live on a wealthy street your road is cleaned more often....have noticed this for years.....

[Rockets]

The same thing happened last year and Cllr McAsh had to intervene and get the cleaning teams out. Are there different cleaning teams for the parks vs the streets as I am forever seeing leaf clearing teams in Dulwich Park yet never a sign of them on Lordship Lane (where the need and risk is greater).

[alice]

I have lately been walking in the road - weirdly safer.

[HeatherP]

Good to see they have now got onto the sweeping on East Dulwich road this morning. 

[Rockets]

And it looks like they have also got to the section between Townley and the rest of Lordship Lane as it was a lot clearer over the weekend.

[Nigello]

Shopkeepers and retailers just CBA to do anything like clean up their exteriors/shutters, remove rubbish/leaves from their environs, etc. They just want your money. Vote with your feet or suggest they may benefit from spending a very small amount of time and effort being community minded. 

[CPR Dave]

They need our money to cover the tens of thousands of pounds (sometimes more than £100,000 for a single business) a year they give to the council as business rates. I wonder what value for money the local businesses feel they get for that.

[Nigello]

It doesn’t preclude picking up a few bits of litter for three minutes a day or slapping a coat of emulsion over graffiti. 🤷‍♂️ 

[Brian up the hill]

As I understand it business rates are set by central government. Half of the money raised goes to the council, the other half to the Treasury to be redistributed as local government grants, allegedly.