Nightmare with rubbish collections for ground floor conversion flat with no front and rear garden

shortcrust

Maybe it’s a north south thing. I suspect round here there’d just a bin on the pavement and no one would think much of it.

Pixie5740

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't see the problem. I'd have a swing top bin/similar in the kitchen and put the recycling and general waste into that - by dropping two rubbish sacks into the one bin and just being careful which I put any item into.

It's not rocket science... then, on alternate weeks, remove the relevant bag and put it out.

For smellies... she can take it out with her, in a tiny little bag from old food packaging and plop it into a local public bin in passing.... lots about if you look for them. I don't have smelly food lying about; what comes into the house I pretty much eat 99.99% of.

Put it out to where? There is no outside bin. I wouldn't fancy wandering around town with a load of rubbish like a Womble looking for public bins.

mitkx

Pixie5740 wrote: »

Do you have no sense of smell? Stashing your rubbish between kitchen cupboards and in the living room for a fortnight makes you sound like a clatty midden. You were fortunate that you were out of the flat most days so were generating rubbish elsewhere but that is clearly not the case for your tenant.

If there's no space for a wheelie bin and there's no communal bin how would her rubbish get collected as I know many councils won't accept bags left at the kerbside, they need to be inside a bin?

You might have refused to show the SIL a copy of the deeds but he can download them quite easily for £3 from the Land Registry.

It sounds like the property isn't suitable for the current tenant and to be honest I'm not sure it will suit many other tenants. Perhaps next time it is advertised you should make it crystal clear that the tenant is expected to keep rubbish inside for a fortnight or take it to the tip themselves.

There is a street bin outside the shop for anything that is ultra smelly. All smelly uneaten food was occasionally go in there late at night.

The council will take refuse sacks from the kerbside as they are aware about this property and its unique set up.

I employed a letting agent to take care of giving the tenant details on everything that they should know prior to moving in, but I know, no excuse, how is a letting agent meant to know that. I wont be making the same mistake again and maybe this time it will go to someone who is always at work and hardly there.

mitkx

Pixie5740 wrote: »

Put it out to where? There is no outside bin. I wouldn't fancy wandering around town with a load of rubbish like a Womble looking for public bins.

There is a public bin directly beneath the pay point sign on the shop in the google street view image.

mitkx

shortcrust wrote: »

On my road we each have two bins outside on the pavement. It doesn’t seem to cause problems. If someone came and took them away I’d be livid.

I wonder how long those saying they can’t see the problem would maintain that if they lost their bins.

I enquired with the local council about having 1 (not 2 or 3), just one small 140L general waste bin to place outside the property but they point blank refused it.

If I knew I could pull it off I would take the risk (I have another property in the same area with a spare bin floating around that I could bring round myself) but the last thing I want is to have a penalty notice delivered to the letterbox.

unforeseen

Is it public or the shop's? As it appears that it may be on shop land

mitkx

unforeseen wrote: »

Is it public or the shop's? As it appears that it may be on shop land

You mean the street bin?

It’s public, the local council placed it there and regularly empty it, although they can’t keep up and by Sunday that too is overflowing.

PasturesNew

Ah... I assumed the door opened onto a narrow pathway ... but it really goes directly onto the road. You'd not be allowed that these days! Planning/Highways,Elf N Safety would have fits

sheramber

My son lived in a block of flats whose communal door opened onto the pavement. No place for bins.

The council placed lidded skips at various points along the road and the residents of the street put their black bags in there.

mitkx

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ah... I assumed the door opened onto a narrow pathway ... but it really goes directly onto the road. You'd not be allowed that these days! Planning/Highways,Elf N Safety would have fits

Oh yes for sure. This was converted back in the late 70s/early 80s when they were quite lax. I imagine a lot has changed in the immediate local area after those years in regards to planning and refuse/recycling processes and procedures.