Cinnamon Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 The house opposite us is owned by the local estate & is rented out to tenants on a 2-3 year basis. The last lot have just moved out,just prior to being evicted I have just found out,& they came back last weekend to clear the house at the Estates request. Thing is,they emptied the house straight into the garden,& it has been like that for over a week now. There are several beds,matresses, televisions,even an all terrain buggy,just chucked with no care in a great pile on the driveway. It looks terrible - like squatters have moved in. It make you wonder how people can be so blase about their possesions & really do not give a stuff about dumping what they consider to be unwanted junk, rather than recycling it in some way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 my local council introduced a £10 fee 18 months ago to take away 6 or 8 (can't remember) items of bulky rubbish. Before then it used to be free- there has been a huge increase in fly tipping (now there's a surprise!) & there has just been an amnesty declared by the council for their own council tennants. If it proves popular then it may be extended to everyone. In the local paper it said how much it had cost to clear up the flytipping- lots more than the £10 charges made for proper use of the scheme. When will councils EVER learn?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Why is it so obvious to most of us that charging people to remove their rubbish won't mean there is more recycling and less rubbish, just more fly tipping Sarah, here's a thought, put everything half decent on eBay for 1 day auction, buyer collects, it'll be gone in no time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 Why is it so obvious to most of us that charging people to remove their rubbish won't mean there is more recycling and less rubbish, just more fly tipping Sarah, here's a thought, put everything half decent on eBay for 1 day auction, buyer collects, it'll be gone in no time Claire!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 I'd make a sign saying "Free to a good home" and put it by the junk....... .... although it may be better to put it all in a skip - that will ensure that most of it is taken away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairy&cake Posted September 8, 2007 Share Posted September 8, 2007 some people make your blood boil! How rude is that , leaving all there "Ooops, word censored!" about. Id ring the person who they rent the house off and tell them, its there property and there obliged to deal with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 Why is it so obvious to most of us that charging people to remove their rubbish won't mean there is more recycling and less rubbish, just more fly tipping Sarah, here's a thought, put everything half decent on eBay for 1 day auction, buyer collects, it'll be gone in no time Claire!!!!! Sorry! I have a thing about rubbish (most of which is recyclable too), how disrespectful and cheeky it is to expect others to clear up the mess, makes my blood boil Our throwaway society makes me despair, sometimes I think our little blue planet would be so much better off without mankind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2007 Share Posted September 9, 2007 my local council introduced a £10 fee 18 months ago to take away 6 or 8 (can't remember) items of bulky rubbish. Before then it used to be free- there has been a huge increase in fly tipping (now there's a surprise!) & there has just been an amnesty declared by the council for their own council tennants. If it proves popular then it may be extended to everyone. In the local paper it said how much it had cost to clear up the flytipping- lots more than the £10 charges made for proper use of the scheme. When will councils EVER learn?! When I lived in Basildon they used to charge £6 and then the dropped the charge. There was a fair amount of fly tipping but it was usually tipped at the rubbish collection points where we had to put our bins out to. All the rubbish was collected from service alleys and anyone tipping stufff would just put it at the end of their service alley so it became almost a normal collection point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 The first step would be to call the estate agent and make sure that they are aware of this eyesore, and that you will be reporting them to the council unless it is cleared up. I should imagine that they'd have problems renting it out with that mess outside, and perhaps they aren't aware that it's there. Our council are very good at coming out to clear up - theer's an alley way that I use to get to work, and sometimes it's also used for parties, and left littered with broken bottles and pizza boxes. One call to the environmental section at the council and it's cleared within 48 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 I did just that Clare, & they came with a grab lorry & took it all away over the weekend. There were 3 TV's there - all smashed to bits now We did manage to *ahem* salvage a gorgeous big copper log basket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I did just that Clare, & they came with a grab lorry & took it all away over the weekend.There were 3 TV's there - all smashed to bits now We did manage to *ahem* salvage a gorgeous big copper log basket Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 We did manage to *ahem* salvage a gorgeous big copper log basket Sarah, that's called recycling A friend of mine who lived in The Netherlands years ago said they used to have special days where you could leave all your unwanted stuff out in front of your property and let others help themselves. I like the idea of that, everyone running around grabbing other folks unwanted junk! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 I do that Claire - I sometime put things in the front garden with a note on saying 'free to a good home' - they're usually gone within about 30 minutes. I love recycling and if friends don't want it then it goes on Freecycle. I had a manky old wheelbarrow and a couple of other things from the garden, put them on Freecycle late last night and they were taken by lunchtime, collected this evening. I am appalled by what people will throw away when I go to the tip! Make do, mend and re-use is my motto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Unfortunately, in my last home anything left in the front garden went, whether it was meant to or not ... when someone stole the doormat, I decided it was time to move! Seriously, I love Freecycle - just got rid of two huge buckets of windfall apples that I haven't got time or freezer space to use. I hate taking stuff to the tip, and I've found homes for loads of things through Freecycle. If we lived in a poorer country, everything would be re-used; we are so used here to throwing things away and buying new ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted September 11, 2007 Author Share Posted September 11, 2007 I wish we could have spoken to these tenants & asked them if we could freecycle the stuff for them,but we were not on great terms with them. They were a couple who broke up,then she very rapidly moved a new man in who just happened to be The Hubbys cousin She then got back together with her other man & they moved away,leaving a 16 year old pregnant daughter down here on her own Its been like living on the set of a soap opera some days The estate now have all their gamekeepers & polo grooms clearing the house out ready for it to be spruced up & let again.........hopefully to a nice normal family this time (daughters also have fingers crossed for a teenage son or two ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 my local council introduced a £10 fee 18 months ago to take away 6 or 8 (can't remember) items of bulky rubbish. Before then it used to be free- there has been a huge increase in fly tipping (now there's a surprise!) & there has just been an amnesty declared by the council for their own council tennants. If it proves popular then it may be extended to everyone. In the local paper it said how much it had cost to clear up the flytipping- lots more than the £10 charges made for proper use of the scheme. When will councils EVER learn?! There's an article in the local free rag today about how successful the new amnesty has been. 210 collections were made in August, which jumped to 444 in September when the charge was abolished, & there are 543 booked for this month. Now there's a surprise They are even talking now about rolling the no fee service out to all the borough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 Interesting, & as you say,hardly suprising. New neighbours are moving into the newly spruced up house that was a rubbish tip a couple of weeks ago, thanks to the hard work of the Estate employees We are hoping they like eggs & don't mind cockerels crowing I should also clarify the 'estate' description.It sounds like a council estate with council owned houses, but is actually very different. The whole village used to be part of the grounds of 'The Big House' down the road, with my cottage being the gamekeepers lodge & the houses over the road being the old laundry. So, ts nothing to do with the council, nor their responsibility to clear it up, but the local bigwigsh house who still own these properties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 Amazing how these highly paid executives can't work it out before they make the decision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
