What are your ideas for improving your local area?

Green the verges with native gardens and community vegetable gardens. It seems strange that rate payers money is wasted on Council staff mowing tiny patches of grass.

I really don't like graffitti - it seems to be a sign of discontent. But its a big issue to solve.

Yes I would love to see some street trees in my street - edible ones would be perfect. There are many people in our Street who would foster patch - the street would be cooler, prettier and help promote community spirit. Imagine if people could catch up while picking herbs under a lemon tree

Dumped Rubbish - surely council rangers could report piles of dumped rubbish as they drive around the neighbourhood - piles of rubbish often stay for weeks. Also post some no dumping signs along with phone number to arrange pickup

Encourage use of bicycles by providing more parking facilities in shopping areas and outside stores, parks and pools etc. Also fix up the rough edges and surfaces on many streets. Put in more bicycle lanes where they are needed and improve access by making one way streets two way for bikes or making road closures accessible for bikes. Reduce speed limits to 50 or 40 or less in more areas. In particular, reduce Addison Rd to 50 from 60. Install a bicycle crossing at Stanmore Rd and Marchant St. Put a wider gap in the road closure at Charles St and Margaret St in Stanmore.

Lobby state government for easy access train stations and easy access buses. So many people with children, and yet we still have no accessible stations within the LGA. And our street only has one easy access bus an hour. Not fun in the middle of summer with a toddler and baby.

Efforts to clean up the Cook's River are appreciated. Imagine if we could actually use our river for recreation like kayaking and canoeing? This would support water collection, wildlife, etc. Community gardens on the banks of the river might contribute to this. I'd love to be able to kayak in my neighborhood by 2021 - or preferably earlier!

I'd like the Alexandria Canal path completed from Tempe Reserve to Bellevue Street so we don't need to ride along the highway with little kids to get to the river

I wanted say Council that st peters area specifically from Princes Hwy May St to George St sydenham needs major upgrades to pavements trees footpaths and roads.

I have worked walking streets in this area say Silver Mary

Grove Florence Sutherland Frederick and would like to see more modernization in this area.The small industrial area Lackey Applebee Hutchinson needs facelift footpaths maybe new trees I find bottlebrush unsuitable for this area footpaths too confined and overgrowth often tops people walking footpath properly!

Real Estate prices could be improved greatly as in Marrackville by modern upgrades similiar to City Councils upgrade of Pyrmont near city

Michael

Simpson Park

while I think Council does good job on park the giant trees

overhanging Campbell St need trimming cutting back.Ive already seen branches hanging down too low over park benches which could break hit someone sitting on bench.

The area around park is littered with alcohol bottles from Town Country Hotel in unwins maybe new fencing better waste bins for recycling needed to make users put in these bins

May Lane in St Peters is used by many of us going to and from St Peters station.

It's a narrow one-way street with no footpaths, so we walk on the road. Almost every time I have to move out of the way to let cars past. If I'm walking to the station, the cars approach me from behind, and often surprise me.

It's common for several vehicles to be parked illegally, which further reduces the space available for cars and pedestrians to pass one another. Several businesses in the lane seem to use it for semi-permanent parking. There's also rubbish skips permanently left in the lane.

How about improving pedestrian amenity here by stopping the illegal parking and skips? Simple?

I was asked to put this comment in the Sydenham camp too. I live in Marrickville, but often go to Sydenham for entertainment at the Red Rattler:

I just want to congratulate Council on supporting independent arts and culture venues such as the Red Rattler, The Vanishing Point and SNO contemporary art gallery located in the Marrickville lga. These venues, amongst others, have added enormous diversity and richness to the cultural lives of residents in this area and for those coming from other parts of Sydney and even inter-state and internationally.

The Sydenham industrial area in particular has great potential to grow more…

I would like to see council take a far more active role in environmental issues my expertise is exactly that and i am at the forefront in my field in this particular technology and low and behold ive been in this area for nearly six years and not one council employee has made an effort to contact me nor have i had any help from any governing authority

i love our planet greening it seems simple greening verges well theres plenty of grass around

I look to major issues such as air quality ,water, soil

i will attempt to contact more…

I would like to see Council improve the footpaths in the entire municipality, especially the footpaths around Marrickville Metro

a lame aquatic thingy is planned for Steele Park

- why not just build a swimming pool and be done with it?

The only pool down this end of the council's area is at a privately run gym in Toyer St.

People want to go swimming, not just splash their feet through a puddle with a few jet sprays.

Limit activity of hoons with speed humps, etc. in known street racing areas such as Carrington Rd, Bayview Ave, Richardson Cres - sick to death of being woken at all hours of the night by loud cars burning through Sth Marrickville and Tempe.

Being more vigilant to stop the idiots who ride their mini-bikes along the parkways along the Cooks River - noisy and dangerous, they often have pillion passengers (usually kids) and none of them wear helmets, they run pedestrians off the path - when we ring council to complain we're told that it's a police matter, the police say it's a council matter.

Safety, adequate lighting of public areas.

Bins and regular collection of those bins in park areas.