wheelie bin placement issue

Gloomendoom

random1980s wrote: »

estate agent says she doesn't want to get involved so can I just move them! she is absolutely gorgeous, but absolutely useless too!

Sod the bins.

random1980s

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

OK, so this was a joke, right?
Thank goodness because I don't want to live in that kind of world.

deadly serious, if he was physically a threat to me I would be more concerned, but he isn't, so im not

random1980s

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Sod the bins.

haha, I don't think I would be allowed in to take photos but very slim, very tall with legs that go on forever and a skirt that doesn't, my kind of woman

Lord_Baltimore

Walcott wrote: »

I asked my mummy and daddy and they said it would be fine for me to continue watching power rangers even if the wierdo from next door told on me.

They would be more concerned why you would be pathetic enough to monitor my bins.

I wouldn't describe it as "monitoring bins". Seems to me a simple enough request from people who want to maintain the standard of the living environment to the mutual benefit of all residents.

No doubt they didn't approach the OP direct in case he turned out to be an amateur electrician who drives a Ford Transit in a grubby old string vest with the 'tunes' of Jay Z or Snoop Dogg blaring out the window. There's no reasoning with that type.

No Grange Hill for you this week Wally .

timbo58

Might have been considered politer though to at least attempt to talk to the neighbour 1st however, rather than assuming he would be unreasonable as the neighbour who asked him about SKY installation found him perfectly amenable in the past clearly.

I have 4 bins, they all live in the front drive and thats where they will stay as I simply wouldn't remember to put them out on whatever random day (Yes, I know they are supposed to a be specific one!) the council feel like turning up.

It would be a major PITA/impossible to have to haul them through my terraced house alleyway and over 2 motorcycles, unlocking the security gate every time.

Debbie4121

We once owned a house on a road that was a mix of private and council properties. One evening 3 blokes knocked on the door at 9 pm (we'd just got home) from the Parish Council to complain about the state of our front garden (we were both working 7 days a week setting up a new business and gardening was the last thing on our minds). They said the village was entering some sort of "in bloom" competition, and we were letting the whole side down. Basically they demanded we cut the grass. I felt a bit sorry for the spokes-bloke - he'd obviously been railroaded into being the speaker and looked really uncomfortable.

We explained that we were really a bit busy, but that didn't wash. Apparently they had arranged a meeting at the village hall to discuss the state of our garden, which we were welcome to attend! My husband took a pretty dim view of all this, and the following morning rang the Chairman of the Parish Council, who co-incidentally didn't even live in the village and had no garden anyway as he lived in a flat. There was a bit of a heated exchange, which culminated in the Chairman stating that if we didn't cut the grass, he would arrange for the Council to do it and send us the bill as it stated in our tenancy agreement that we had to keep the garden tidy. My OH asked "what tenancy agreement?" "Well", said the chairman, "when you take on a council house you have an agreement with the Council". He went very quiet when OH told him we actually owned the house and it wasn't rented from the Council. He went even quieter when OH rang the Council's legal department and spoke to their Solicitor, who in turn rang Mr Chairman and probably gave him the biggest telling off he'd ever had!

We didn't hear any more after that. We did leave the grass to grow, and I remember feeling quite disappointed when it got to waist hight and then fell over!

tommie1shunt

This sound's like newbie syndrome to me, a who do they think they are mentality. Do you want to buy some napalm?

Davesnave

Debbie4121 wrote: »

We did leave the grass to grow, and I remember feeling quite disappointed when it got to waist hight and then fell over!

Oh, but all you needed was a packet of wildflower seeds and it could have been an 'eco-meadow.'

System

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

I wouldn't describe it as "monitoring bins". Seems to me a simple enough request from people who want to maintain the standard of the living environment to the mutual benefit of all residents.

No doubt they didn't approach the OP direct in case he turned out to be an amateur electrician who drives a Ford Transit in a grubby old string vest with the 'tunes' of Jay Z or Snoop Dogg blaring out the window. There's no reasoning with that type.

No Grange Hill for you this week Wally .

I don't disagree with you there. A good neighbourhood requires participation by all residents.

But the second paragraph is a cop out. I would be more than willing to accommodate any direct requests, within reason. But sorry, if you don't show me the courtesy of coming to me and instead talk to a second, third, fourth person and so on then don't expect accommodating on my part. No point in putting the bins in the rights place and making a street look good when the people inside those houses have no basic manners.

PS: I also disagree on Jay-Z and Snoop Dog

Davesnave

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

I'm quite shocked at some of the attitudes expressed in this thread. Is this how people really are now?

I think some replies have been tongue-in-cheek.

Nevertheless, harassment can take many forms, and the polite kind is only one step down from the aggressive variety. Going behind the OP's back to the landlord, as one might do to the parents of an errant school child, is particularly offensive.

From a personal viewpoint, I've struggled to understand the behaviour of some neighbours since I took on a property with some land. I assumed that having neighbours at a greater distance would make things easier, but since taking up residence, there have been various challenges to normal activities, even things that my title deeds specifically say I can do.

In contrast, I've applied for and gained planning permission on three occasions without a single objection being raised. This leads me to think that when matters are in the open and visible to all, the cowards shrink away and say nothing.