My mother is an immigrant – and was a commercial cleaner – 7 days a week.

I am an immigrant – and in my youth – I went to work with mum – as a commercial cleaner.

I’ve cleaned Police stations, Pubs and pokie venues in my time.

The work was dirty and heavy…

As an adult – I hate cleaning - but I have a commercial understanding of the process and the costs and everything else in between. My mum doesn’t speak, read, or write in English - so I managed her business while completing High School – and still manager her affairs.

In saying that – I am really disappointed with the poor response by CoPP Street Cleaners - to my Snap Send Solve on the 23rd OCTOBER. 

In some cases – the foot path was done but the pigeon poo splashing’s on the building millimetres away -  were ignored. Images of before and after attached for reference.

Really wouldn’t have taken much to do it properly. It’s a pressure hose…  in the ‘real world’. In my world as an immigrant – we would have lost out jobs over that, lost contracts. 

In council world? What happens? Is someone accountable? Responsible? 

Other than a small section  of footpath – the rest of the street was totally ignored along the South Melbourne Bakery footpath, fish and chips shop, the bus stop, at the corner of Clarendon and Park – My Local. Go down there – you can see years of grime, pigeon and dog excrement.

Why did the council cleaners or contractors clean HALF the poo  – and leave the rest? Shouldn’t the poo be cleaned regularly?

I escalated it via Snap Send Solve immediately AGAIN at the time, and responded to the email advising my issue had been ‘closed’ to let them know it wasn’t completed.

Nothings been done since. No regular cleaning. No removal of the rest of the poo. 

There is a Pigeon Poo Problem on Clarendon Street. We are sick of the dirty streets and pigeon poo. It’s unhealthy, unhygienic, and unsightly.

I have written to Councillors but they have busy schedules and some have families and even full-time jobs, but there is a problem with getting things done ‘properly’ around here… but going through the officers is like talking to robots.

There are numerous businesses on that strip that are pretty upset at this and the grime, and at council for not ‘looking after the streets’.

There are many people that don’t even bother complaining, as they don’t think it will make a difference.

I know we have a few more riff-raff members of the community here in South Melbourne rather than the 'poshy' Port Melbourne – but we deserve clean streets too… In fact, we need ours cleaned more often to deal with the meth addicts, public housing, and public transport routes.

Please help and sort out the street cleaning.