A WEBSITE enabling householders to register problems with their local authority has received almost 400 complaints in two days.
Available to customers of South Dublin County Council, fixyourstreet.ie invites residents to log complaints on the internet site about local problems such as graffiti, road defects, street lighting and illegal dumping.
Complaints have ranged from “significant potholes in Garville Drive, Rathgar” to “grass growing three feet high” in Clondalkin.
Unveiled by Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan, the site, which is due to be extended to all local authorities after a three-month trial, promises that residents will receive a response to their complaint within two working days.
So far most incidents reported involve road and path defects. The second-highest total relates to graffiti, with 28 complaints. There are 20 complaints about litter and illegal dumping, 11 about street lighting, and one about a leak or drainage problem.
A post from one resident requests that “the very unsightly graffiti that people insist on painting on the walls around the demolished Windmill Studios” be removed.
Another cites “a plague of vermin migrating mostly from the north to Sandymount beach”. The complainant says the pattern seems “particularly strong in the summer months with the vermin emitting a high-pitched frequency undetectable to all but the cultured Dubliner”.
One includes a picture of “a TV or computer monitor and an NTL set top box in a hedge” on a path in Mount Andrew Court in Lucan.
