are the council likely to do anything - re rubbish in garden

Lucy_Lastic

It's not actually a scrap yard, just begining to look like one.

I was thinking of telling them that I was concerned that someone might steal the items left outside the house. There are 4 decent looking car wheels, so I'm actually surprised they have not been nicked yet.

eyelinerprincess

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

Dark of night + 1 Match = Some young thugs lit it and ran away..... Honestly !!

Unfortunately we're in the upstairs flat so not worth the risk. Some kids set fire to next door's shed last year and I saw the damage it caused.

RuthnJasper

warmhands.coldheart wrote: »

Dark of night + 1 Match = Some young thugs lit it and ran away..... Honestly !!

That's what my neighbour thinks will happen in the case she reported!

We agreed that, if they DO try and get rid of it that way, one of us will warn the other and then we'll both grab our dogs and leg it (calling 999 on the way)! There's goodness-knows-what soaked into that dumped sofa by now and our houses are SO close together that, if the sofa goes up in flames, it'll take us down with it...!!!

Mind you, the miscreants are on a sticky wicket now - they told the HA rep. they'd got rid of it; she checked and they hadn't. So now they're in double-poo for the dumping AND the lying to the HA. Idiots. :doh:

silverwhistle

Lucy_Lastic wrote: »

There are 4 decent looking car wheels, so I'm actually surprised they have not been nicked yet.

The totters on a flatbed truck round our way would already have had them!
Mind you, a useful service as they took my old hob and cooker..

Lucy_Lastic

I wish they would come along with their flat bed truck and take the lot. Funny thing is that last year when there was a rusty old exhaust pipe leaning up against the house they tried to nick it twice!

macman

If it's a private property, they can keep whatever they want in their front garden as long as it's not a potential health hazard (in which case contact EH). The fact that it's unsightly doesn't count.
If it's LA housing, there is normally a clause in the lease requiring the tenants to maintain the gardens in a tidy state.

usignuolo

We have had problems around here recently with sewers backing up. Problem is these are Victorian houses, the gardens back onto each other (think large rectangle with houses built all round the outside.) The gardens back onto each other inside the rectangle and somewhere the drains all run from the backs of the houses under their gardens but no one knows where the pipes are or where they lead.

Council and water authority confirm this -no one knows where they run, and there are no plans. (I had a conservatory built at the back of my house a few years ago and we took the opportunity while the foundations were being dug, to run a telescopic pipe, at council's request, to see if we could find where my drains ran. After 300 yds and with the probe still heading north, under the gardens, they gave up...)

Technically who is responsible for these drains - it is the householders? The water authority say there is a water mains along the main road in front of the houses with a feed into the houses but not a sewer, and so it is not their responsibility. And if no one knows whose sewers run where, how do you identify the possible source of a problem?