New house and wheelie bin

lmille38

Hello all,

We have just got our keys for our new house :j
However, the family that lived there before us moved to a new build barratt house and took their wheelie bin with them. I believe they did this as barratt don't provide it's new houses with a bin and they would therefore have had to buy one.

I phoned the local council who told me that I would now need to buy one at a cost of £52!! I know it's not much but together with all the other costs of moving it adds up.

This is our first home and we have both moved from out parents homes. Why should I be buying a wheelie bin that should have been left at the property?!?!

Is there a way round this? Surely it's the council's job to provide us with a method of refuse storage for enviromental health reasons?

Ta x

go_cat

Usually they are allocated to a property however if the vendors had to pay for it then in their situation I would have taken it although I know it seems a bit petty!

londonlydia

When I was a student renting a house in Durham, I once looked out my window to see a man holding my recycling bin. Then he spotted me, and next thing I know he's legged it with my bin in his hands. This was in 2008 roughly, and I knew then how bad the recession was if people were resorting to stealing bins.

sandsni

It does seem a bit petty for the vendor to take the bin with them, given the thousands that they would have received from you, but maybe with buying their own new house their budget was even more stretched than yours lol.

Is it your first time registering for council tax in that area? Could you use that as a bit of leverage to see if the council would provide your "first bin". If I remember correctly, when wheelie bins were first rolled out (so to speak) each household in our council area was given a bin, but had to pay for replacements thereafter (but I'm in Northern Ireland so I don't know if it was the same for all UK councils).

DPJames

I'd go round and take it back. Cheeky gets.

Ask nicely first, then just take it. Thieving !!!!!!.

JethroUK

sandsni wrote: »

.... each household in our council area was given a bin, but had to pay for replacements thereafter ....

I think the key here is whether the bin had council logo on it (makes it council property = belonging to original house)

If it's their own bin it wont have council logo on it

Does seem petty to take a bin with you

Although I remember moving into my current house and they had removed the loft ladder which was actually mentioned in the deeds - but moving house was so traumatic we couldn't be bothered to raise the issue

drummer_666

lol. it's a bin... £52 is nothing on what you've just paid out.

tell the council you've just moved and ask for a bin. if they don't give you one, then buy one....

vuvuzela

drummer_666 wrote: »

lol. it's a bin... £52 is nothing on what you've just paid out.

tell the council you've just moved and ask for a bin. if they don't give you one, then buy one....

£52 quid is still £52 quid, regardless of how much the OP has spent on the house. Would you be happy with someone effectively depriving you of a decent night out on the booze ? I know I wouldn't.

DannyboyMidlands

Jeez, it's a frikking bin. I don't think that anybody can possibly be in the right or wrong here. It's just a bin. A 50 quid bin.

However if you wanted it that much you should have got it written into the contract.

londonlydia

BTW, if you dont have to get the specific council bin, you can buy them off Ebay for a little less, around the £30-40 mark dependent on size.

vuvuzela

DannyboyMidlands wrote: »

Jeez, it's a frikking bin. I don't think that anybody can possibly be in the right or wrong here. It's just a bin. A 50 quid bin.

I wonder how many weeks that the council would need to get a new bin to the OP. Wouldn't surprise me if 3-4. And during that time, in a new house, the OP (if they live somewhere like me) wouldn't be able to have any rubbish collected as they have no bin and the council don't take bags.
And if they have no car (like me) they wouldn't be able to take their rubbish to the tip. So before commenting on things like that, maybe think a bit ?