Community Activist in O'Brien Street, Mount Druitt Clean Streets!

The other day Linda, from O'Brien Street, North Mount Druitt, shas been marking a mark in the community by notifying Council of graffiti on fences that need to be removed. As soon as the graffiti artists attacked the fences, she was onto it.

She also has stepped outside her community role, by previously walking up and down her street, pick up rubbish dropped around by other community members, leaving a clean, beautiful and respectful street. Now she finds Blacktown City Council, acting responsible and cleans up her street within reasonable amount of time. Also Council has  been terrific in responding to cleaning off graffiti off unnecessary fences.

William Mason Reserve North Mount Druitt, she remembers used to be used for burning out of cars and the children's playground area used to be used on the north west bushy area of the park, where there was drug addicts using needles. The redesign of the park, has planned for the children's park to be in a better area.
 
Again we have a 'champion' in Mount Druitt, probably a silent 'champion' but a champion in her own right. 

In Mount we have a wide diverse of people coming from all over the world and of course some people may believe in their own customers, trying to retain them in Australia. There may be one or two cultures that only believe in cleaning their own home and compound. When it comes to outside then they may be left to others and maybe that's a culture, us Australians have instilled within ourselves. I think to reduce Council's cost for street rubbish, we need for Council to promote campaigns like 'Your cleaner rubbish is your community's cleaner rubbish!'

North Mount Druitt - Urgent Foot Path Improvements Required - Part 1!

We live in a  Blacktown City, where  proper  accessible footpaths have  not been  properly provided to a vital part of the  Mount Druitt community. It goes without saying that the more there are accessible footpaths the more people will walk, jog and run.

East of Meacher Street,
right side no pathway!

East Of Meacher Street Left side
to Moorehead Avenue

In a seemingly well developed North Mount Druitt 
community, there seemed to be a neglect in planning to provide to the community 2 sided accessible  concrete footpaths. This is probably because we do not have a local Councillor of Blacktown City Council living in this part of the Council and Ward.

Moorehead Avenue facing North
Left no pathways!

Moorehead Avenue South
no pathways to a park

Headcorn Street, left showing no pathways!

A majority of Mount Druitt suburbs have 2 sided pathways on each side of the street, I have been amazed that this is not happening in the heart of Mount Druitt.  This is happening in area that is developing as 'Median density housing' but not even median  allocation of pathways!

Moorehead Avenue Facing South,  no pathways
and deterioration of soil, block of units in front.

After doing a tour around the area, you will see how the community would greatly benefit from this proper access, that the community requires.

Below is O'Brien Street, Mount Druitt with one-sided footpaths and the other side has patches of grass to walk on. How dangerous this can be if  community members fall over and have accidents

Corner of Notley Street & O'Brien Streets South,

Corner of Notley & O'Brien Streets North

Cavallaro Crescent, Mount Druitt, requires both sides of this short street, to be improved with concrete foot paths. This also cuts down duel emissions from lawn mowers, easy access to the community sense of community pride and most importantly, added value to all properties in this area.

West of O'Brien Street

Whilst there is a one-sided footpath on one side of the seats community, you will see that community members need proper concrete paths that, Councils should be providing on both sides of the the streets. If you go to an inner Sydney City, City Council,  both sides of walkways are concreted and fully maintained. Are area 'City Council' as well!


Here is the western End of Meacher Street - Left side. - you will note that some community members use the  front of their properties as small dumping grounds. If a footpath is in place, there is  reduced chances of this happening and  there is a better  community that uses footpaths to get to places. 

Meacher Sttreet, (West)
Mount Druitt

Meacher Street (West), Mount Druitt

Meacher Street (West),
Mount Druitt

This is the far western part of Meacher Street (facing East), before the footpath ends (right above picture). Middle right picture shows short fall of a footpath that has been missed by Blacktown City Council ( Seems like they ran out of concrete).

Here is Meacher Street, North Mount Druitt where it is distinctly clear that there is one side of the road undeveloped footpaths needing proper improvements in path ways infrastructure (right picture below) and Corner of Notley & Meacher Streets North Mount Druitt with overgrown grass overgrown a few months ago (middle picture). 

The corner of Methven and Earl Streets, it shows it is quite clear that a major park called 'William Mason Reserve' does a have footpath leading to both ends of Methven Street Mount Druitt. (left picture). This is  something that I find quite daunting that up until now, there has been little or no improvements, to assist the North Mount Druitt community. By this time the local government authorities and stake holders make a decision for these important improvements, once this decision is made it will be left up to them to ensure work in progress is not years behind. 

How can  Blacktown Local Environmental Plan progress unless their is progress of major improvements in these footpaths?

Corner of Methven & Earl Streets,
North Mount Druitt

Corner or Notley & Meacher Streets
Mount Druitt

Corner of Glenroben Place
 & Meacher Streets
Mount Druitt