council owned grass

t0rt0ise

I would talk to the local councillor and ask if you can be exempted from the charge for collection. I agree with you that they have a cheek to ask you to pay for it.

sevenhills

scott_campbell9 wrote: »

Now for another cost cutting the council have asked us to pay £25 a year to empty the grass bins...

Council owns it! We have to cut it! But the council wants to charge us to dispose their grass....

thanks

I can see this is just a post to have a dig at the local authority, but unless you know someone that can empty the 'grass' bin for less than £25 a year, you are stuck with the council.

Council offering best service at the cheapest price; is that the headline in the local newspaper?

Mickygg

The £25 will no doubt keep increasing each year.

I would cut it so it looks neat but leave the cuttings on the grass. No way would I pay for a bin to keep the grass.

davidmcn

scott_campbell9 wrote: »

Even though they own it we cannot alter or pave on it.

But even if you owned it you may well be prohibited from altering or paving it. Pretty commonplace that front lawns need to remain as lawns.

glasgowdan

sevenhills wrote: »

I can see this is just a post to have a dig at the local authority, but unless you know someone that can empty the 'grass' bin for less than £25 a year, you are stuck with the council.

Council offering best service at the cheapest price; is that the headline in the local newspaper?

You think homeowners are only paying £25 towards this bin collection?!?!

Cakeguts

Isn't there a neighbour near you who likes growing their own? They will take the grass cutting and compost them it saves buying compost.

moneyistooshorttomention

teddysmum wrote: »

Is this a terraced ex-council house ,with communal lawn stretching the length of the terrace (with paths of course)?

As far as I can make out - I think this must be the sort of situation referred to.

With that - it's an EX Council house - so expecting to be able to buy one of our houses out of our public sector housing and then expecting us to still pay to cut the lawn after that sounds a bit ******** (words fail me - let's just say = cheeky).

In that position - I'd say we (ie taxpayers) don't have the responsibility to maintain our lawn any longer - considering that we no longer own our (ie taxpayers) house that it comes with.

Time to consider oneself fortunate to have been able to get to own one of our houses and take it on the chin and mow the lawn oneself or pay the charge (which is only £25 per year).

Davesnave

Speaking as someone who has around half an acre of grass to cut and no green bin, I can't understand the problem. I use picked-up grass as mulch, some is left on the surface and a little is added to the compost heap; it just depends which mower I'm using. Cuttings can be very useful, but if you don't want them, get mulching mower.

Like you, I've an area at the front which I can't do much with, because it's needed for roadside visibility and there'd be safety concerns if I planted shrubs. I've cut this for 8 years, assuming it belongs to the council, but recent digitising of planning records has revealed that it belongs to me. So what? It will still need maintaining in 2018, regardless of ownership.

I could argue that in maintaining this visibility area, about 30 others who benefit ought to pay me for my time and equipment costs, but in the real world, I'd wait as long for that as you will for the council to set up an expensive-to-administer green bin exemption scheme!

marliepanda

molerat wrote: »

When are these stupid councils going to realise that charging for garden waste bins is going to come back and bite them in the bum. Tipping waste costs them by the ton. If my council decided to charge for garden waste I could easily fit it into my normal waste bin but would probably triple the weight of that bin. Coupled with the fact that the truck would probably have to go and empty several more times whilst covering the same route probably means it will cost the council more in the end as well destroying any "green" credentials they harp on about.

The bin wagons have lifting mechanisms with weight restrictions (roughly 15 stone, which a green bin alone can easily reach)

If you think they’ll take your triple weight general waste bin, good luck to you.

Goath

Does not really help the OP but I thought I would share my opinion, that the council (ours anyway) don't really care less what the voter wants as long as the council tax gets paid.


Our council specifically states that you cannot put Garden Waste in a normal bin.




The nearest recycling centre is > 8 miles away, our gardens are not big enough to have a decent size compost area.


We and some neighbours wrote to the council asking for a Garden Waste bin (in addition to our recycling bin) and stating that we would happily pay an annual charge for this, like they do in neighbouring councils. We also told them that this would dramatically reduce the amount of "illegal contraband" that is bagged up into the normal bins, from the majority of people in our village.


Not one of our emails was replied to..


So garden waste, is bagged up into normal bin bags, and they can sort it out when it gets to the depot (according to the newsletter the council send out every quarter or so) waste is sorted at the depot for what can be recycled)