Grumble against Waltham Forest council re. space for refuse bins

katejo

I live in a typical early 20th century terraced house with very limited space at the front. I have to keep 3 bins there for normal waste, recycling materials and garden/kitchen waste. This week I have had quite a bullying style letter from the council which says that I will either be fined £60 or prosecuted if I leave any bin on the pavement area but the available space on my property is very small and I simply can't reach to add anything to the bins. Alternatively they stay on the path and i fall over them. I already have the slimmer bins available but they are still too big for me.
Has anyone else had a similar problem and found a way round it?

paddedjohn

Cant you keep them out back?

Azari

paddedjohn wrote: »

Cant you keep them out back?

Wow.

What a great idea!

I'll bet she'd never have thought of that in a million years.

Azari

katejo wrote: »

I live in a typical early 20th century terraced house with very limited space at the front. I have to keep 3 bins there for normal waste, recycling materials and garden/kitchen waste. This week I have had quite a bullying style letter from the council which says that I will either be fined £60 or prosecuted if I leave any bin on the pavement area but the available space on my property is very small and I simply can't reach to add anything to the bins. Alternatively they stay on the path and i fall over them. I already have the slimmer bins available but they are still too big for me.
Has anyone else had a similar problem and found a way round it?

I'll make the same suggestion to you as I made to the last poster who was having a problem with his council.

Get in touch with your local councillor.

It's not guaranteed that they will be able to do anything but they can sometimes; particularly if the council officers are behaving incorrectly or unreasonably.

Fosterdog

How wide are the pavements in your street? Do people also park cars there?

You say that keeping them on your path would not leave you with enough room but are they taking up too much room on a pavement where people have to squeeze between bins and cars or bins and lamp posts? Is there enough room for somebody to walk with a young child, or pram, carrying bags of shopping, walk a dog etc.? It may not be a council jobs worth causing this but maybe a complaint from someone who needs to walk past and can't.

As you live in a terrace and they tend to have all houses the same shape and size with the same gardens, where do your neighbours keep their bins?

fluffnutter

What do your neighbours do?

battleborn

Do you have a garage you could keep them in until collection day?

vuvuzela

paddedjohn wrote: »

Cant you keep them out back?

If it's a terraced house then the OP would have to trail the dirty bins through the house on a bin day. Hardly ideal.

fluffnutter

vuvuzela wrote: »

If it's a terraced house then the OP would have to trail the dirty bins through the house on a bin day. Hardly ideal.

Possibly. Many terraces have rear access - mine does.

TBH, we're all speculating a bit. Until the OP comes back and gives more details - whether there's access at the back, what the neighbours do, etc. we're just throwing ideas at the problem, not solutions.

katejo

Here is my reply
1. No rear access at all and to move full bins through the house would be difficult. No direct route

2. Did write to council and got reply today . Apparently a local resident complained . When council came to check only my bin was there so they wrote to me . However this morning another house had its bin on pavement .

3. No solution offered other than using bags instead of wheelie bins .

4. Some houses in road have bigger space at the front than I do .

I asked for even smaller bins but not available

katejo

battleborn wrote: »

Do you have a garage you could keep them in until collection day?

No garages in road