Has anyone else noticed the amount of dog poo around Honor Oak recently? I've lived in the area for 9 years and it's never been lie this. There seems to be so much of it, especially around the traffic quietening area. It seems to me that it must be several dog owners not clearing up and it's making the area look disgusting.

So if you see anyone not clearing up, please just politely ask them to do so!

Same in the Perry Vale area - noticeable increase in the past few weeks and it really is disgusting!

The thing is, in the mornings I used to see Council workers sweeping the streets and I haven't seen anyone doing so for months. Has anyone else noticed this?

Yep, it's becoming a problem on London Road and up along Sydenham Rise/Sydenham Hill too...... so antisocial. The council road sweepers don't seem to visit that frequently and i doubt that they could keep pace with the alarming amount of poop that seems to be accumulating anyway!

Yes showtunesgirl, now I think about it, I can confirm the sudden absence of road sweepers since the turn of the year. I used to see them regularly on the walk to the station in the mornings, but I can't recall seeing one at all in 2008.

Right so it's not just my imagination then. The last time I saw anyone sweeping in HOP was last month and they were on Brockley Rise. Seems like they are doing the main streets but not the side ones anymore.

I did think about writing to the people that do the newsletter that is posted to HOP residents but I don't have the contact details.

Also is it worth writing to the SE23 mag that goes round a bit more regularly?

I think it's a combo of asking people to clear up after themselves and also trying to get the council to sweep like they used to!

http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=434 already being discussed - it is quite disgusting! why on earth people get dogs when they don't want to look after them properly is completely beyond me

The street sweepers clean our area every day (main & side streets). Also, as stated on previous threads on this topic, if you contact the council they will take action to make sure the sweepers clean up dog mess.

The real problem is dog owners.

YESSSS! Horrible, isn't it?

Think I will get onto 'Love Lewisham' on the Council's website. Of course I don't blame the Council - it's the lazy stupid ******* who let their dogs defecate all over the place - but I wonder if a notice or two might help.

If I see anyone letting their dog foul the pavement, & unlikely to shoot/slit me from ear to ear, I will make my displeasure known. It would be tempting to follow them home, find out where they live, and put the offending matter through their door. ;-)

We're still getting the street cleaner regularly on Perry Vale as far as I can tell.

There is an owner of a very large dog that is going to have a rude shock tomorrow morning. Stepped out of my house this morning and found a monster turd (fresh) outside my garden gate. This means the owner has let his hound **** on the pavement between 7.30 and 8.00.

I shall be waiting.

Whereabouts are you Londondrz. Maybe we should gang up on him?

Instead of a municiple necessity, "street sweeping is [now] an art" according to the side of the bin lorry that's just passed our house. So be patient citizens, the street sweepers are in their studios on Havelock Walk waiting for their muse or maybe working on their BRUSH STROKES

Waldenshaw Road. Do you have any of those little flags to put in the poo?

A lot more people seem to have dogs these days, and whilst pooper scooper culture seemed to be doing okay 10 years ago, it is a distant memory amongst the current generation of dog owners.

In a 10 min walk to the train station on my residential back streets you have to look at the pavement at all times to negotiate your way through the turds. It really is getting out of hand.

Is there anything we can do on the local level about this? The council really should step up their campaign - I doubt there has ever been a single prosecution on this, but there should be...

I noticed somewhere there was a stencil sprayed on the pavement with some kind of sign like this:

I'd rather every street had these signs sprayed on them the current minefield.

Anyone else annoyed by this? Im sure Im right in saying that its gotten worse recently...

I contacted Love Lewisham about Stillness Road, which was a waste of time -still no response. Councillor next, methinks.

I am also very concerned about this and have written to a local councillor.

In looking at how to report things like this before, I have discovered some pretty good links that others may find useful:
http://www.fixmystreet.com/
http://www.writetothem.com/

HTH

Last Saturday around HOP was particular bad. Walking to the station was like an unpleasant game in Crystal Maze - and there was no prize afterwards! The pooper scoopers must return!

This is from one of the ward councillors for Crofton Park:

This is certainly a move in the right direction. I suggest those of you in other wards contact your councillors and Safer Neighbourhood teams to ask for the same:

http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/CouncilAndDem...uncillors/
http://www.met.police.uk/saferneighbourhoods/

Herschell Road is littered with piles of dog turds, especially on the side with the church. Once it gets dark, i don't walk on the pavement near the church as the road is badly lit, and it seems that once 1 dog fouls the pavement, all owners feel its ok to follow suit. Never mind the grass in the church grounds - scouts/cubs/childrens parties all playing on turd-filled grass.
I previously lived in Lee Green - dog-fouling didn't seem to be such a big problem. Its time people took some pride in the area where they live. Its disgusting!!!