Problem with local council

[herewego]

This seems very unusual to me and not at all residential. Where I have lived council lanscapers have always brought equipment in pickups, done the job and moved on to the next job. It must be very inefficient to buy equipment for each area and leave it there. I don't understand their thinking. What about the rest of the residents, what do they think of it?

[anonymous-user]

herewego said:

This seems very unusual to me and not at all residential. Where I have lived council lanscapers have always brought equipment in pickups, done the job and moved on to the next job. It must be very inefficient to buy equipment for each area and leave it there. I don't understand their thinking.

+1. Unless the Parish is very small and this is about the only piece of publicly accessibly land they own?

Where I work, we (County Council level) would never have plant locally stored and dedicated for just one facility.

I would look (yes, at your own expense if needs be) to plant along both sides and the rear of the container. once it grows up and covers the sides it will blend in a lot more sympathetically.

[Vaud]

Annoying, but I can't see that you have a case, sorry.

Planting some fast growing shrubs down the side would soften it. See if the Parish Council would allow that?

[Sargeant Orange]

Come on fellas, if 2 blokes turned up outside your PH mansion one day and chucked that down you wouldn't be happy would you?

Some C4 should do the job

[littlebasher]

Plus it'll be covered in graffiti as soon as the weather improves

[Riley Blue]

Sargeant Orange said:

Some C4 should do the job

Blow up the house you mean? That's one solution I suppose...

[TooMany2cvs]

mickthemechanic said:

mickthemechanic said:

I know I cant see it from inside

Or, really, from anywhere on your plot, by the look of it.

I can understand why you're miffed, but it could be a LOT worse.

[PAULJ5555]

Park a car in front of it so they can't open the doors, might need to get a smart car.

[KevinCamaroSS]

Pothole said:

I can't see a problem.

Nor me.

[anonymous-user]

mickthemechanic said:

Hi Pothole

Would you like a tin of custard on top of the container ?

PS Thanks to all the other posters who have replied.

What a fking mess. Only a st for brains council employee could think that's a good idea. I have every sympathy with you and I'd be chasing a reduction in CT and compensation for devaluing your property.

[rongagin]

Well I agree with the OP, it isn't a nice thing to have parked next to your house on what is a green area.
The concrete plinth, how long has that been there?

[anonymous-user]

REALIST123 said:

What a fking mess. Only a st for brains council employee could think that's a good idea. I have every sympathy with you and I'd be chasing a reduction in CT and compensation for devaluing your property.

Yeah that's not going to happen in a million years.

(Although I may be due a parrot.)


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Edited by OpulentBob on Friday 24th February 12:31

[daimatt]

As suggested above, contact the clerk to the council about your concerns. I'd get other neighbours who agree with you to attend the next council meeting and during the open session for questions begin to raise the concerns as a group.

As far as solutions go. I'd look for the council planting hedging around the perimeter to stop it's use as a football goal and to hide it a bit, or I'd look for other areas storage would work better in the parish and request they look in to moving it and transporting the equipment to the site like most other councils do.

The one councillor you have spoken to may not be sympathetic to your cause but you may find that others are and would look in to changing it where possible.

You could review the minutes of the meeting that agreed the purchase and position of the container too, this may have some information to help you. This is why it's worth spending a bit of time at local meetings.

[Fitz666]

Invest in a welder and a long extension cable, could be fun....

[MKnight702]

Pothole said:

I can't see a problem.

And, frankly, nor can the OP from inside his house!

[pits]

mickthemechanic said:

Hi Pothole

Would you like a tin of custard on top of the container ?

PS Thanks to all the other posters who have replied.

Hmmmm, out of interest was the hard stand there prior to the container going down? If the answer is yes, were you using this as a parking space? And if yes to that, are you now a bit annoyed you have lost your own "private parking space"

[Pixel Pusher]

Won't be long.....

[longshot]

What a ridiculous thing to drop in the middle of a housing estate.

As other have said, if that is full of mowers etc, I'd question the economics of it.

There's a couple of thousand Pounds of Council money tied up in that container too.

http://www.portablespace.co.uk/product/20ft-x-8ft-...

I wouldn't be at all impressed if that was next to my house.

While it may not affect the value of your home, it will no doubt impact on the speed of the sale.

There will be people put off by that, particularly if, as has already been mentioned, it becomes a goal or magnet for local kids.

[jesta1865]

i'm not advocating anything, but apparently bamboo grows tall and very fast, it could get between the container and your house?

[cmaguire]

Isn't it sweet the way so many on here have such sad and bitter lives that they thrive on the misery of others.

That container is an eyesore and the hardstanding implies it isn't temporary. It probably suits the council as it is difficult to vandalise or get into and is low maintenance. I wonder how the councillors themselves would feel about that dumped outside their property(s)?
The point I would argue is that it's out of keeping and inappropriate for the location. I live on farmland and a container placed around here would not be an issue, but if the landowner gave permission for the circus to store the Walzer outside I'd have something to say about that straight away. If they replace the container with a more appropriate block-built storage then you may have no argument.