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

mitkx

Adereterial wrote: »

Mine is two small drawers and I manage it just fine. I only buy, and cook, what I need so it’s mainly used to store frozen vegetables, ice cream etc. The bag holds trimmings and small amounts of leftovers not worth keeping, and generally takes up less than 10% of a drawer.

She many, of course, need to adjust her lifestyle to the property she chose, just like I did when I rented this flat for work. I can’t live in it the same way I do in my 4 bed detached main home with plenty of storage space for bins, and I don’t go bleating to the landlord about having nowhere to store waste between collections.

In practice a good idea but the tenant living in my flat wants to be clean and neat and dispose of quite a bit of rubbish during the week but does not want to recycle either. Don't know how that could work in a one bed place like this with limited resources. The letting agent seemed to think she was a good match so not sure why now there is an issue.

Pixie5740

mitkx wrote: »

So the only option here is for the tenant to leave if she cannot cope with the current arrangement?

The tenant has to decide if it's worth putting up with festering rubbish inside her home for a fortnight or whether she would rather move elsewhere with an outdoor bin.

marliepanda

mitkx wrote: »

In practice a good idea but the tenant living in my flat wants to be clean and neat and dispose of quite a bit of rubbish during the week but does not want to recycle either. Don't know how that could work in a one bed place like this with limited resources. The letting agent seemed to think she was a good match so not sure why now there is an issue.

Recycling should not be a choice. Clean recyclables in a box/bin inside will not smell or cause any issue.

Its her problem she is making worse by not recycling (laziness, IMO)

fairy_lights

mitkx wrote: »

In practice a good idea but the tenant living in my flat wants to be clean and neat and dispose of quite a bit of rubbish during the week but does not want to recycle either.

She can't have her cake and eat it.

m0bov

marliepanda wrote: »

If you look at the slant on the plan the OP does not own any land where the shop has signs. The ops land extends to the property walls only, no further. If anything the bay above has a flying freehold or overhangs!!

Nor does the PO, so I'd still put my bins next to the signs and see what happens.

lisyloo

mitkx wrote: »

So the only option here is for the tenant to leave if she cannot cope with the current arrangement?

Ultimately yes.
If she doesn't like it and can't find some kind of arrangement with someone nearby to store/take her rubbish and she doesn't like it then she should leave.
It's up to her.

marliepanda

m0bov wrote: »

Nor does the PO, so I'd still put my bins next to the signs and see what happens.

Well they dont have a bin to start with, and the council almost certainly won't deliver a bin to a property without anywhere to put it.

The shop will have permission to have those A Boards outside (or they don't, and the council can ask them to move them as well) The PO may actually own a little bit in front of the property, I havent seen their deeds. Regardless, you won;t get planning permission to leave a bin out, and the council won't even give you a bin to start with at that type of property.

mitkx

marliepanda wrote: »

Well they dont have a bin to start with, and the council almost certainly won't deliver a bin to a property without anywhere to put it.

The shop will have permission to have those A Boards outside (or they don't, and the council can ask them to move them as well) The PO may actually own a little bit in front of the property, I havent seen their deeds. Regardless, you won;t get planning permission to leave a bin out, and the council won't even give you a bin to start with at that type of property.

The council are not all that clued on and have made mistakes in the past. When I was living at the property, 2-3 years ago I asked for a recycling box and ended up with two wheelie bins delivered (one waste and one recycling) which I returned back as I did not have the space for them and they were obstructing the path.

The deeds from the land registry website shows the shop does not own any bit in front of my property. The signs are either there and overlooked by the council or they have been allowed to stand and have been given permission.

Either way, I was not kicking up too much of a fuss about them as they would be gone once I returned from work after 7 and the shop was closed whilst I lived there. The lady now living there is over 60 and retired, so completely different lifestyle.

lisyloo

Was someone approaching a local business for storage?
Did anything happen with that?


Otherwise I think you need to accept that the property does not suit her lifestyle.

Adereterial

Recycling is not a choice - it’s an obligation. What a serlfish person she is.

I manage to keep my flat neat and tidy, despite recycling. Food waste in the freezer, recycling compacted down and in a box under the sink, and non-recyclables in normal bin in the kitchen.

She needs to amend her lifestyle to live there. End of story, frankly. If she’s not prepared to do that then her only option is to find an alternative property to rent, where there is sufficient space for her to dump her rubbish. Whether you want to release her from the tenancy is up to you - I wouldn’t.