Do local authorities spend more on some areas.

mariaalice

Not going to name the area.

Live somewhere that is classed a well-off however you define that. In general, the roadsides are cut back, signage is good the place has a well keep and well-tended air about it. Residence associations are active and well supported so estates are well kept, it's not just the grass being cut.

Yesterday we went for a drive, swim, lunch out in a place about an hour away the contrast. A lack of signage, general hodgepodge state of the roadside, housing all over the place, drove into an estate of bungalows and houses not exactly neglected but not well keep either and so on.

If local authorities all do the same work how can areas can an areas be so different.

tuxy

It depends on how close your local TD lives.

Fr_Dougal

mariaalice wrote: »

Not going to name the area.

Live somewhere that is classed a well-off however you define that. In general, the roadsides are cut back, signage is good the place has a well keep and well-tended air about it. Residence associations are active and well supported so estates are well kept, it's not just the grass being cut.

Yesterday we went for a drive, swim, lunch out in a place about an hour away the contrast. A lack of signage, general hodgepodge state of the roadside, housing all over the place, drove into an estate of bungalows and houses not exactly neglected but not well keep either and so on.

If local authorities all do the same work how can areas can an areas be so different.

n!ghtmancometh

I dunno it's the opposite in my experience. The local authority always seem to be out picking litter in the rough area near me, as well as running youth projects and astro pitches etc, but I've never once seen them doing the same in our slightly less rough area.

wexie

mariaalice wrote: »

If local authorities all do the same work how can areas can an areas be so different.

Cause the squeaky wheel gets the grease

cournioni

I reckon so. I come from an area in rural Ireland with plenty of industry and employment (so plenty of taxes paid here per capita), but has absolutely been neglected by local council authorities in terms of infrastructure and facilities. Other smaller and similar sized areas clearly get more funding, particularly further west.

Wheeliebin30

Considering ballymun has full time council workers dealing with litter maintenance etc, go figure.

Donald Trump

People who live in "nice" areas just don't make shite of the place. That is why they are "nice" in the first place