A bit council (Vol 6)

[conkerman]

Kowalski655 said:

Ofc course they will, they're wannabe scousers

EFA

[119]

All inclusive holidays = Council.

[Whistle]

Just spent 3 weeks touring inland Andalusia and guess what, we never came across one single council type family.

[Spare tyre]

Poor old ant

https://youtu.be/7l0DJwMJNc8?si=_UAqc2g4Itf6zjLo

In bother again

[Richtea1970]

Spare tyre said:

Poor old ant

https://youtu.be/7l0DJwMJNc8?si=_UAqc2g4Itf6zjLo

In bother again

That cretin makes my urine boil!
Everything that’s wrong with Britain.

[Spare tyre]

Richtea1970 said:

Spare tyre said:

Poor old ant

https://youtu.be/7l0DJwMJNc8?si=_UAqc2g4Itf6zjLo

In bother again

That cretin makes my urine boil!
Everything that’s wrong with Britain.

So thick it’s painful

[paulw123]

Putting little black ramps on the kerb outside your house because you're too tight to apply/pay for a dropped kerb - council.

[jimmytheone]

paulw123 said:

Putting little black ramps on the kerb outside your house because you're too tight to apply/pay for a dropped kerb - council.

Bonus points for driving over the verge, ruining it and turning the place into a mess

[Saleen836]

paulw123 said:

Putting little black ramps on the kerb outside your house because you're too tight to apply/pay for a dropped kerb - council.

Drive this road in Shaftesbury on a regular basis, one dropped kerb and everyone else uses it! I have even witnessed a woman in a soft roader attempting to reverse down the footpath to park where the blue X is while school kids are walking up it.

[Spare tyre]

jimmytheone said:

paulw123 said:

Putting little black ramps on the kerb outside your house because you're too tight to apply/pay for a dropped kerb - council.

Bonus points for driving over the verge, ruining it and turning the place into a mess

Bonus bonus for wood or diy cement

[Dr Murdoch]

Enfield Council in London take a fairly robust approach to driveways without a dropped kerb....

[standards]

Dr Murdoch said:

Enfield Council in London take a fairly robust approach to driveways without a dropped kerb....

Really?
Interesting. And funny to my twisted (what passes for) sense of humour.

[Dr Murdoch]

standards said:

Really?
Interesting. And funny to my twisted (what passes for) sense of humour.

Yup, another from the same road about 6 houses down....

[nuyorican]

Christ. Councils really do have money to burn don’t they. So this is what our astronomical bills get spent on. Is there any practical reason for doing this apart from petty vindictiveness.

[hidetheelephants]

nuyorican said:

Christ. Councils really do have money to burn don’t they. So this is what our astronomical bills get spent on. Is there any practical reason for doing this apart from petty vindictiveness.

I imagine they were given the option to pay the fee for a dropped kerb but refused. Given the impact on the property price people can be remarkably shortsighted.

[eldar]

hidetheelephants said:

nuyorican said:

Christ. Councils really do have money to burn don’t they. So this is what our astronomical bills get spent on. Is there any practical reason for doing this apart from petty vindictiveness.

I imagine they were given the option to pay the fee for a dropped kerb but refused. Given the impact on the property price people can be remarkably shortsighted.

Good to see monopoly behaviours alive and thriving in local councils.

[hidetheelephants]

eldar said:

Good to see monopoly behaviours alive and thriving in local councils.

Yes, councils have monopolies.

[WarrenB]

On the lack of dropped kerb side of things... I pass this one quite regularly.



Apparently they applied for a dropped kerb a number of years ago but it was rejected. So they built the drive and applied for retrospective planning permission. Which was rejected. There is a gouge in the grass where they accessed the drive a few times over the last winter, but the drive tends to be empty.

[hidetheelephants]

Is it near a junction? Seems a bit harsh to refuse it.

[Southerner]

nuyorican said:

Christ. Councils really do have money to burn don’t they. So this is what our astronomical bills get spent on. Is there any practical reason for doing this apart from petty vindictiveness.

No I think the council are bang on! Why should a property owner be able to essentially steal a parking space without going through due process and, yes, paying whatever the fee is that everyone else who wishes to do so has to pay? It’s selfish tw@tishness of the highest order IMHO; sod em!