Davenport is too filthy say residents
Fed up with the state of filth on Glenwood roads, residents are demanding the municipality takes action.
RESIDENTS living in Glenwood's Helen Joseph (Davenport) Road, are fed up with the complete filth they have to put up with as the state of the streets deteriorate.
Ursula Slater, a Glenwood resident says the poor clean up of the suburb by the municipality has been a concern for a while but since the New Year things seem to be getting worse. “We pay taxes and rent is expensive yet the streets and gutters look so disgusting in Davenport Road and people like us have to live in such conditions,” said Slater.
Slater showed Berea Mail the filth along the road, with rubbish lying on the corners, leaves left in bags and tree felling bits and branches left for weeks on the roadside.
Calvin Mclellan, agreed, “Things are so bad even the hobos are complaining,” he said.
Mclellan and Slater live in a flat in Helen Joseph Road which has garages at the back of the flat in a lane running from Helen Joseph to Clark Road. “The lane is so filthy. Besides the discarded rubbish, we have vagrants and prostitutes urinating and defecating in the gutters! It is an eyesore and we have to go past to get to our cars. We have people living under the garages and prostitutes have sex out there, you never see this happen in Umhlanga or Durban North, I don't understand why we have to live with it,” Slater added.
Mclellan said the lane was really problematic as it attracted whoonga addicts and other criminal elements.
Barbara Subramoney, another Davenport resident said, fighting, screaming and urinating on the street below her flat was a daily occurrence. “When the police remove the vagrants they return the next day. The smell of dagga and urine is terrible . We don't even walk near the back of the building for fear of what could happen.”
Sick of their living conditions, the residents have appealed to the municipality to urgently assist them.
“These conditions are appalling and nobody should have to breathe in the smell of urine and drugs daily, tackle the problem with cockroaches and flies and have rubbish lying outside for weeks on end. We expect something to be done about this, as this has gotten out of hand. With a new year and hopefully a new attitude in 2015, I hope we can get our streets cleaned up and put some pride into where we live and what we do,” Slater said.
The municipality had not commented on the situation on Helen Joseph Road at the time of going to press.
