The City of Stirling works hard to keep our streets well-maintained and clean. Clean streets promote a sense of community and safety.
The City manages the upkeep of:
- Footpaths and kerbs
- Paved areas
- Road surfaces and islands
- Street lights
- Furniture such as benches
- Bollards
- Bus stops and shelters
- Public signs.
Street maintenance
Help keep our streets clean
You can help us keep your neighbourhood clean and safe by reporting illegal dumping, syringes and abandoned shopping trolleys.
Service delivery delays
The following requests may take up to four weeks to be resolved. You can continue to lodge these services, however please take into account the delay in delivery.
- Litter/dumped rubbish on private property
- Dust complaints
- Noise complaints
- Animal complaints - cat, rats, chickens, pigeons and bees
- Odour complaints
- Light spills (that do not cause harm to the public).
Where to report an issue
Litter is unsightly and can also cause injury to people and wildlife. The build-up of litter reduces the appeal of a place and can encourage further littering. Rangers are responsible for enforcing the Litter Act 1979 as amended in the City of Stirling.
Cigarette butt litter
Cigarette butts have become a significant littering issue, particularly as people are asked to smoke outside. On average the Keep Australia Beautiful Council (WA) issues 90 fines a week for cigarette butt littering via its litter reporter scheme. This accounts for nearly 95 per cent of all fines issued by Council.
Reporting litter
Litter reporters can report someone who throws or dumps litter from a car. Key details of the offence and offender are noted and passed on to the Keep Australia Beautiful Council. They will issue a fine on completion of a full report.
To register as a litter reporter, phone the Keep Australia Beautiful Council on (08) 6467 5129.
Littering from vehicles
The disposal of litter including cigarette butts from vehicles is illegal and considered littering. Where neither the litterer nor the driver of the vehicle can be identified, the person responsible for the vehicle (the registered owner) will be deemed to have committed the offence and will be responsible for the fine unless they identify the offender.
For more information on state government initiatives to reduce litter, please visit the Zero Waste WA website.
- For trolleys belonging to Woolworths, Big W and Dan Murphy’s phone Trolley Tracker on 1800 641 497 or you can report it on the Trolley Tracker website.
- For trolleys belonging to Coles, Kmart and Target please submit a report via the Coles website.
- For trolleys belonging to Bunnings please phone 1300 554 777.
- For trolleys belonging to Aldi please phone 13 25 34.
All other trolleys can be reported directly to the respective supermarket.
Clean Streets Project
The Clean Streets Project is an ongoing City of Stirling initiative to maintain our major shopping and tourism precincts such as Karrinyup, Mirrabooka, Mount Lawley and Scarborough.
To request street cleaning in your street or in any of our major shopping and tourism precincts, please phone our Customer Contact Centre.
Drainage
The City’s stormwater drainage network consists of 720 km of pipes, around 29,000 access chambers and collector pits and 220 drainage sumps and other drainage outlets.
The main drain networks and sewerage infrastructure in the City is the responsibility of the Water Corporation.
Regular monitoring and maintenance activities involve inspecting the drainage networks, including pipes and sumps, to identify defects or blockages. When necessary, tasks such as pipe vacuuming to remove silt and debris, root cutting, sump clearing and general repair or replacements are carried out.
The City’s annual Preventive Maintenance Inspection Program supports the management, monitoring and maintenance of the City’s stormwater drainage system. The ongoing program is crucial to managing stormwater run-off to reduce flooding risks, safeguard roads, protect properties, community assets and ensure public safety.
The City carries out the following drainage maintenance works each year:
- Pipe educting - This is a process of vacuuming out silt and rubbish build up and generally occurs in April and September each year in approximately 800 locations. In high blockage areas such as new development areas, educing also occurs prior to winter and as required.
- Root cutting - This is a process where cameras are inserted into pipelines to assess root intrusion. High pressure water jets and root cutting equipment are then used to remove identified root growth.
- Drainage infrastructure inspections - Drainage infrastructure is regularly inspected and any defects are passed on to our maintenance teams to repair.
- Drainage projects - The City has embarked on a program to draw plans and record all pipe and manhole information. This ambitious project will allow data analysis to be done by computer in order to determine areas in need of future upgrading works.
Drainage FAQs
The City cannot provide letters for home insurance purposes as we do not have flood mapping data, which is common for Perth metropolitan local governments. With the exception of river-related studies, neither does the Western Australian Department of Water or the Water Corporation.
The City’s reactive drainage investigation and upgrade program addresses drainage system capacity issues by analysing catchment and pipe networks. Minor improvements are included in the current capital works program, while major improvements are considered for future programs.
Additionally, the City operates a street sweeping program to remove debris from roadways, reducing the risk of drainage system blockages caused by surface runoff.
For details and an explanation of the criteria for managing on-site storm water drainage, view the City’s Onsite Storm Water Drainage Information Sheet. Enquiries regarding on-site private stormwater drainage disposal and stormwater plans for development applications should be directed to enquries@stirling.wa.gov.au
The City does not generally allow for private connections into its stormwater drainage system. In some circumstances, some exceptions may apply. Information can be found on the document Requirements for Private Connections to the City’s Drainage Policy.
