Dear Sir/Madam,
I wish to bring to your attention the serious street litter problems that exist in
Magazine Road and surrounding roads & parks. This entire area is becoming a
litter blackspot with broken bottles, empty cans and general litter strewn across
the streets.
There are now over 22,000 students attending UCC and the vast majority of
these pass through this area throughout the day and cast aside their litter. No
other area of the city(including Patrick Street) has this volume of people passing
through on a daily basis.
In addition, because of the serious antisocial issues after hours, there is a
resultant increase of litter especially empty alcohol bottles/cans being left along
the streets and parks. Another issue related to the antisocial behaviour is the
tipping over of residents refuse bins with the resultant litter being scattered
around the footpaths & roads.
Because of the volume of people living and passing through the area, we as
residents request that you give serious consideration to intermittent use of one
of your road sweepers trucks.
At present one of your sweeper trucks cleans Bandon Road up as far as
Denroches Cross(Centra store).
We request that this truck route to be extended to cover Magazine Road as far as
the Kilcrea Park junction and also to include Highfield Avenue which is a
regular bad black spot. The entire area is being turned into a ghetto and if
students see it as a ghetto then they will behave accordingly.
If City Council are seen to be attending to the area then the general population
especially students will react positively. I urge you to give this serious
consideration. It isn’t too long ago that this area was highly regarded as a
residential area and is still classed as an Architectural Conservation Area(latest
Cork City Development Plan) but it is now deteriorating at an alarming rate
with street dirt/litter a major issue and gives no incentive to new potential
permanent residents to move into the area.
Yours sincerely,
Aidan Cahill
Acting Secretary,
Magazine Road & Surrounding Areas Resident’s Association.