Getting rid of fallen leaves from council trees

di74 said:
We have the same problem into our front garden. Dun Laoghaire Rathdown CC do a road sweep in our estate every few weeks. We are asked to sweep all leaves out onto the road each weekend and not to park cars on the road on the day they are coming (residents association provides dates they are due to road sweep). Maybe ring the CC and explain the problem...they may have a solution.
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Thanks - great suggestion. Actually, I see that DLR had their sweeping schedule online up to end October www.dlrcoco.ie/roadsweeping/index.html. I'll contact them and see if they have an up-to-date version.
 
My neighbour has trees in his front garden that drop on to the public footpath. Every year he sweeps them on to the boundry with his neighbours house. We end up having two or three mounds of leaves about 3' tall piled up on the public footpath and completly blocking the storm drains. After a few days of wind these leaves end up down the street and become someone else's problem.
We also are supposed to have a regular road sweeping service but this is not happening and so far this winter we have not seen sight nor light of them yet. Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co. Co were on occasions sweeping our road twice a week during the summer. Typical.
 
I sweep all the leaves out as well, and DLR swats them up.
Thanks for the on-line schedule Complainer.
 
The official response from the council is that householders should NOT be sweeping leaves from their own gardens onto the street (for collection by the council). I'm going to try a bit more digging and haggling to see if I can get a satisfactory solution to this.
 
Sorry, correction on above post...
I sweep only the kerb side leaves out, not the garden leaves!
By the way they did their rounds here last week as scheduled.
 
Still waiting for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown to clear the mush from our footpaths and storm drains. An email to my local council official was ignored. Before the recent election she answered all emails.
 
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