Problem with local council

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herewego

8,814 posts

212 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Can't your partner attend instead?

longshot

3,286 posts

197 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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It's been mentioned that this is NIMBYish.

Yeah, of course it is. Every town and village has a shipping container somewhere in the middle of it don't they that someone has to put up with.

Honestly.....

Trabi601

4,865 posts

94 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Got to love the amazing PH double standards here.

Someone parks a shed of a van outside your house, blocking your light / view and making it difficult for you to park yourself - 'suck it up, you don't own the road'.

Council stick a container on council land, where it's not even visible from the property... 'I'd be complaining about that'.

herewego

8,814 posts

212 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Trabi601 said:
Got to love the amazing PH double standards here.

Someone parks a shed of a van outside your house, blocking your light / view and making it difficult for you to park yourself - 'suck it up, you don't own the road'.

Council stick a container on council land, where it's not even visible from the property... 'I'd be complaining about that'.
Clearly there are some people here who don't care about living in an attractive location but many of us do. Curiously the council get involved in maintaining an attractive environment in every planning application yet in this instance they don't seem to care.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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herewego said:
Clearly there are some people here who don't care about living in an attractive location but many of us do.


It's not exactly majestic sweeping unspoiled views of a national park and mountains, is it?

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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TooMany2cvs said:
herewego said:
Clearly there are some people here who don't care about living in an attractive location but many of us do.


It's not exactly majestic sweeping unspoiled views of a national park and mountains, is it?
It's not a view of anything from the OP's house. He can't see it unless he makes the effort to walk round to do so.

Massive NIMBY.

mickthemechanic

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326 posts

105 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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TooMany2cvs said:


It's not exactly majestic sweeping unspoiled views of a national park and mountains, is it?
No but it is my home.

lost in espace

6,136 posts

206 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Signatures from local residents, petition handed to council? Or request it is fenced in maybe to hide it. Local MP too.

longshot

3,286 posts

197 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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mickthemechanic said:
TooMany2cvs said:


It's not exactly majestic sweeping unspoiled views of a national park and mountains, is it?
No but it is my home.
My sympathies OP.

This is the sort of bks you have to expect unfortunately.

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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How good are they when the petrol for the mowers goes up?

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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mickthemechanic said:
TooMany2cvs said:


It's not exactly majestic sweeping unspoiled views of a national park and mountains, is it?
No but it is my home.
Like I already said, I sympathise with your position.

I understand how it's hard for you to be dispassionate, too - but that is not actually on your property, not actually impinging on your view, and the view isn't exactly a selling feature of the property in the first place.

mickthemechanic

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326 posts

105 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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TooMany2cvs said:
Like I already said, I sympathise with your position.

I understand how it's hard for you to be dispassionate, too - but that is not actually on your property, not actually impinging on your view, and the view isn't exactly a selling feature of the property in the first place.
So if I lived somewhere with rolling hills and beautiful views it would be a problem ?. I think that's a little unfair I didn't buy a house next door to a industrial estate and I don't think its suitable to be placed in a residential area.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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littlebasher said:
Plus it'll be covered in graffiti as soon as the weather improves
Good for hitting/kicking balls against. This is outrageous and is very definitely a problem. Visible from many surrounding properties. It's a shipping container for goodness sake. On a housing estate.

mickthemechanic

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326 posts

105 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Pothole said:
It's not a view of anything from the OP's house. He can't see it unless he makes the effort to walk round to do so.

Massive NIMBY.
Not only are you a internet hard man but you even need to hide behind someone else doing it.

Oh and 23k posts do you cry yourself to sleep at night wondering what the touch of a warm woman feels like ?

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah

12,787 posts

99 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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If it genuinely is an eyesore the earlier suggestion of bamboo is a good one. It fills spaces rapidly, and can grow 14 foot tall, can be chopped back to thin out easily too. We have some to screen our rear driveway from the garden. Just a word of warning, if you plant bury concrete (old paving slabs of ebay are ideal) at least a foot and a half deep, as if not the roots shall spread, and you'll end up with a jungle of them (not kidding!) that a panda would be happy to call home in no time at all.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Pothole said:
TooMany2cvs said:
herewego said:
Clearly there are some people here who don't care about living in an attractive location but many of us do.


It's not exactly majestic sweeping unspoiled views of a national park and mountains, is it?
It's not a view of anything from the OP's house. He can't see it unless he makes the effort to walk round to do so.

Massive NIMBY.
But it's there! right next door. This is the time to be a NIMBY. Do you live in a tree lined suburb? (without containers.)

untakenname

4,953 posts

191 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Must be a nice area as otherwise it would be vandalised and graffiti'd by now (along with the contents stolen).
You would have valid reasons for removal if it were in a rough neighbourhood as during the day kids kicking football would ruin your right to quiet enjoyment and at night people would piss up the side of it and smash bottles/leave needles there after using which would be real problems, as it is atm with no anti-social behaviour it's probably not going to be removed, it just looks a bit council having a shipping container next to your house.

mickthemechanic

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326 posts

105 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
If it genuinely is an eyesore the earlier suggestion of bamboo is a good one. It fills spaces rapidly, and can grow 14 foot tall, can be chopped back to thin out easily too. We have some to screen our rear driveway from the garden. Just a word of warning, if you plant bury concrete (old paving slabs of ebay are ideal) at least a foot and a half deep, as if not the roots shall spread, and you'll end up with a jungle of them (not kidding!) that a panda would be happy to call home in no time at all.
Yes the suggestion of Bamboo is a good one. I hadn't considered having something planted around it. If I can't get it moved I think that would definitely ease the situation a little.

herewego

8,814 posts

212 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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untakenname said:
Must be a nice area as otherwise it would be vandalised and graffiti'd by now (along with the contents stolen).
You would have valid reasons for removal if it were in a rough neighbourhood as during the day kids kicking football would ruin your right to quiet enjoyment and at night people would piss up the side of it and smash bottles/leave needles there after using which would be real problems, as it is atm with no anti-social behaviour it's probably not going to be removed, it just looks a bit council having a shipping container next to your house.
Perhaps it is a council house.

mickthemechanic

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326 posts

105 months

Friday 24th February 2017
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herewego said:
Perhaps it is a council house.
Hi

No its private