Cork City is looking a bit dirty

WoolyJumper

I don't know if its just me but the last few months I can't help but notice Cork is looking filthy. There is rubbish all over the streets and I notice the streets themselves are looking a bit grubby. Normally I'd see the street cleaners out in the morning but haven't seen them around in awhile (even before this heatwave) I also haven't seen as many council workers picking up rubbish in the mornings. Anyone know whats going on or an was it always like this and I just never noticed?

EnzoScifo

Hasn't rained in weeks, so grime builds up.

yogmeister

Thats a bad excuse , plenty of countries get little rain and are cleaner . This reason the place is dirty is because the city is inhabited by a lot of people that couldn't care less and the city council are too incompetent to manage basic waste and refuse services . Bins are constantly overflowing , streets are constantly dirty . We have a lot of bad habits in this country .

Roki Vulovic

Cork has been quite filthy for a long time. Nothing new. People not picking up dog ****e, chewing gum on the pavement, dirty nappies let fly, spitting, fags and drinks thrown everywhere. It will never change unless they get serious about fining people for littering.

whisky_galore

Roki Vulovic wrote: »

Cork has been quite filthy for a long time. Nothing new. People not picking up dog ****e, chewing gum on the pavement, dirty nappies let fly, spitting, fags and drinks thrown everywhere. It will never change unless they get serious about fining people for littering.

Heaps of rubbish now gathering in the side streets around the old FAS building. We are a filthy nation, no doubt about it.

Some of the apartments around town built a few years ago look shocking, one place I happened to look up at last weekend, all the gutters choked with weeds and hadn't seen a lick of paint since it was built. All discoloured with green algae and shyte. Seems to be a thing that new places are put up and not maintained externally at all, whatever about what goes on inside, if anything.

pwurple

whisky_galore wrote: »

Some of the apartments around town built a few years ago look shocking, one place I happened to look up at last weekend, all the gutters choked with weeds and hadn't seen a lick of paint since it was built. All discoloured with green algae and shyte. Seems to be a thing that new places are put up and not maintained externally at all, whatever about what goes on inside, if anything.

There has been a huge issue with developers setting themselves up as management companies, to maintain the exterior of the buildings and then promptly going bust. So there is no-one managing them. The MUDS act brought in the ability of the owners / tenants of the units to set up their own management company, but they find it hard to organise themselves in some cases. I guess it's not something you expect to end up doing when you buy a flat... now you have to set up a company with your neighbours, charge and collect the management fee from everyone , and hire cleaners, guttering people, roof specialists, or employ an agent to do it.

whisky_galore

pwurple wrote: »

There has been a huge issue with developers setting themselves up as management companies, to maintain the exterior of the buildings and then promptly going bust. So there is no-one managing them. The MUDS act brought in the ability of the owners / tenants of the units to set up their own management company, but they find it hard to organise themselves in some cases. I guess it's not something you expect to end up doing when you buy a flat... now you have to set up a company with your neighbours, charge and collect the management fee from everyone , and hire cleaners, guttering people, roof specialists, or employ an agent to do it.

So, as it falls between two stools, nothing can be done?