Will i get in trouble?

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janey70 wrote: »

yes spamfree i did my garden is massive so have loads and loads of waste it would take me years to get rid of it all putting a bit at a time in the wheelie bin but thankyou for your suggestion

Once the cut down stuff rots down, usually after a few days, it takes up less space. Does it matter if it takes months, the fact is you would be making an effort to do something about it.

valk_scot

Have you a car? Trailer? Could get a loan of car and trailer? You can always haul large quantities of garden waste to the dump and put it in the green waste skips there.

Or if the problem is really that huge you could hire a skip for a day, if you have the material cut down and ready to load.

Or you could hire someone to clear it and haul the waste away. (Make sure this last is included in the estimates.)

Does your council provide seperate garden waste wheelie bins and collections? Ours does.


Being a cheapskate, this is what I'd do. I'd find some scrap wood or pallets and build two or more compost bins of a cubic metre each. I'd then compost everything possible and take the rest (perennial weeds, brambles,branches etc) to the dump in some way. You're going to need to keep the place tidy after you've got it cleared after all and the compost bins are a cheap, long term solution, coupled with disposing of small regular amounts of waste in the bin. You could even use your compost next year to do some actual gardening and growing, which might help with motivation in the garden.

Finally if your neighbours do report you...and if it's not happened yet, I doubt it wil...you'll probably only get a warning letter for a first offence. Do some good apologetic grovelling at this point saying you were unaware of the bylaw and you'll be fine. Give the incinerator away on Freecycle though or plant something in it, the council won't like the idea of it just lying around in the back garden still being usable.

shelley_crow

One of my neighbours rang the council about a neighbour at the end of our terrace, he regularly lights fires at 8am on a summer day and they burn well into the night, he does this up to 3 days a week sometimes. Needless to say the council weren't interested and she was told they had no power to ask him to stop.

Farway

OP you could, as suggested, just pile it up in the centre of the garden, then wait until November 5th and torch it

Even a local council can hardly go against 400 plus years of tradition, and if they did I expect the Daily Mail would love to hear from you

Taadaa

We-ll, the OP could get into trouble if she live in an Air Quality Management Area, as there will be additional restrictions on burning matter that causes dark smoke. From the wording that she has quoted from the LA website, it sounds like it could well be an AQMA to me.

Suggest you call the council and ask them about use of this incinerator.

At the end of the day if the neighbours are going to complain, there's nothing you can do about it. But you do need to take heed of the advice already given so that you can apologise and have a plan of action for dealing with the nuisance you are causing.

Comyface

I had loads of overgrown weeds at the bottom of my garden (prob about 3mx10m area). I bought some Roundup, big pack with a 'gun' that sprays continuously, and they were all pretty much gone within a week.

Think this works best if there are a lot of leaves/green bits for the weedkiller to sink in. And if you don't want to grow anything on that bit of land anyway.

Farway

Comyface wrote: »

I had loads of overgrown weeds at the bottom of my garden (prob about 3mx10m area). I bought some Roundup, big pack with a 'gun' that sprays continuously, and they were all pretty much gone within a week.

Think this works best if there are a lot of leaves/green bits for the weedkiller to sink in. And if you don't want to grow anything on that bit of land anyway.

Roundup or generic are inactive once in the soil, so you could just spray and let it work, your garden would of course then be full of dead plants so your neighbours may still complain