Council & rubbish on private land
Discussion
One for the PH massive to ponder...
We live in a Victorian semi, which backs on to another row - there's a pathway at the back, mostly overgrown, but accessible at our end of the street via another path which links the 2 rows.
Our garden has a gate which backs on to the 1st path, and we'd like to carry out some building work, using the path as access for the builders etc.
The pathway between the rows of gardens is private land, we've been through a legal process to grant us right of way - but we don't know who it belongs to.
Someone nearby is using this path to dump copious amounts of rubbish (ie TVs, timber, assorted filled sacks). The council refuse to move it saying that the land is private, they are telling us to write to the land registry to find the land owner and then deal with this privately. The council did come along to inspect this rubbish, and then posted everyone nice 'don't flytip' letters
Now I remember from 'A life of Grime' that the council has powers to remove the rubbish and charge this back to the landowner.
Any ideas how to get things in motion?
We live in a Victorian semi, which backs on to another row - there's a pathway at the back, mostly overgrown, but accessible at our end of the street via another path which links the 2 rows.
Our garden has a gate which backs on to the 1st path, and we'd like to carry out some building work, using the path as access for the builders etc.
The pathway between the rows of gardens is private land, we've been through a legal process to grant us right of way - but we don't know who it belongs to.
Someone nearby is using this path to dump copious amounts of rubbish (ie TVs, timber, assorted filled sacks). The council refuse to move it saying that the land is private, they are telling us to write to the land registry to find the land owner and then deal with this privately. The council did come along to inspect this rubbish, and then posted everyone nice 'don't flytip' letters
Now I remember from 'A life of Grime' that the council has powers to remove the rubbish and charge this back to the landowner.
Any ideas how to get things in motion?
Don't know sorry.
Practical suggestion though is that you've got possibly 20, maybe 30 properties backing on to this path?
Plan A - Short Term - Letters to all suggest say £5 a head big skip, bunch of you spend a few hours clearing it up (any 'profit' providing liquid refreshment for the helpers.
)
Not fair on all you lot but solves the short term problem.
Plan B - Long Term – whip round £25 a property, 12’ gate at either end, big padlock, 1 key per house.
Practical suggestion though is that you've got possibly 20, maybe 30 properties backing on to this path?
Plan A - Short Term - Letters to all suggest say £5 a head big skip, bunch of you spend a few hours clearing it up (any 'profit' providing liquid refreshment for the helpers.
) Not fair on all you lot but solves the short term problem.
Plan B - Long Term – whip round £25 a property, 12’ gate at either end, big padlock, 1 key per house.
rude-boy said:
Easy.
TVs: Fix them - if they need fixing that is, and if they do it'll be something trivial - and sell them at a car boot sale.
Timber: Build a shed with it.
Filled sacks: depends what's in them.
Who do you think he is a pikey? Orinoco, Tobamori or Tomsk?
Not a pikey, a pikey would sell the TVs anyway regardless of whether they were working or not or even if they had a circuit board in. Tomsk is more of a possibility; wasn't he the engineer?
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