Force property owners to clean up pavements

A FEW days back I had to attend an appointment just off Narborough Road, near the shopping area close to Upperton Road.

Arriving early, I decided to walk round the area to pass time. What a shock I received.

The whole area is a pigsty. Never in this country have I seen such a sickening mess of litter and rubbish.

The entire area is covered in fag ends, fag packets, paper, glass, some broken and an obvious danger to people passing, plastic bottles, drink tins, food wrappers and cartons, coffee cups, lids, drinking straws, lollipop sticks.

I saw discarded shoes, clothing, bedding, disused road signs thrown on one side.

Unwanted food and drink containers were on the pavement, lodged on top of walls, left in bus shelters and stuffed in edges and bushes.

The pavements in front of the shops in Narborough Road were the same.

Much of this rubbish has obviously been around for a long time. No effort to clear and clean up the district has been made in recent times.

Talking to other Leicester residents I am told other areas of Leicester are no better. What an indictment.

Do the mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, or the city councillors ever leave their offices and go out and walk round their district?

If they did, their consciences would not allow this miserable and disgusting state of affairs to continue.

It would be a good idea if legislation could be passed to force shopkeepers and property owners regularly to clean up their roadside fronts.

On the Continent, where some countries have this kind of legislation, shopkeepers and stall-holders can be seen before opening in the morning cleaning and washing down their fronts and collecting and disposing of litter.

They seem to take pride in their towns and villages and what a pleasant difference it makes to the locality’s appearance compared with ours.

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