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Nightmare with rubbish collections for ground floor conversion flat with no front and rear garden
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Rather than a wheelie bin, I might put a less obtrusive 'container' for storing a bag or two of rubbish in - presumably it's the dirty/smelly stuff that's a problem.
The upstairs bay window seems to overhang that triangular piece of ground area, so you might get away with putting something there.
For example, this could hold a small bag of smelly rubbish - it's 480mm W x 500 H x 290 D (it's really a gas meter box, so people might assume it's their to hold a gas meter!):
https://meterboxesnow.com/gas-meter-boxes
Or a slightly bigger container - H 520 mm W 700 mm D 450 mm (again, people might just think it contains grit):
https://www.roadware.co.uk/street-furniture/grit-salt-storage-bins.html0 -
For food waste, I keep a small plastic bag in the freezer and everything goes in that. I then put the frozen stuff out the night before the collection. Everything else is dry, compacted, and takes up less than a black bin bag, and there’s no smelly food hanging around to attract flies etc.
A little bit of a pain but no reason why she couldn’t do something similar.0 -
I would ask the PO to move the signs from your property and use that land for a wheelie bin.0
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Sunny_Intervals wrote: »Thanks. It seems daft to me that the PO can stick a load of signs advertising gambling and ice cream on the public pavement right in front of your flat, but you can't have a small bin on that same darker area (where the lottery sign is now).
Do you have a picture of the back of the property? Again, it's hard to say looking at the plan and I appreciate you're a lot more familiar with the layout than any of us, but it does look like there's some small areas out the back where a bin could go without causing an obstruction (e.g. right at the back corner of the property, alongside the red rectangle or the rectangle next to it).
Would the owner of the red rectangle be willing to let you store a bin there?
The main point here imo is that I doubt the Post Office owns that bit of pavement they are using either. So if they can use it (despite not owning it) then your flat can use it (despite not owning it) imo.0 -
Adereterial wrote: »For food waste, I keep a small plastic bag in the freezer and everything goes in that. I then put the frozen stuff out the night before the collection. Everything else is dry, compacted, and takes up less than a black bin bag, and there’s no smelly food hanging around to attract flies etc.
A little bit of a pain but no reason why she couldn’t do something similar.
Depends how big the freezer is I guess.
I've got a freezer taller than myself and I couldnt find room to store my rubbish in it, as well as my food.
I expect her freezer is rather smaller than mine - so all the more so.0 -
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..
Most lilely the reason why the drove to the tip, as it was an issue.0 -
moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »Depends how big the freezer is I guess.
I've got a freezer taller than myself and I couldnt find room to store my rubbish in it, as well as my food.
I expect her freezer is rather smaller than mine - so all the more so.
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.0 -
moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »The main point here imo is that I doubt the Post Office owns that bit of pavement they are using either. So if they can use it (despite not owning it) then your flat can use it (despite not owning it) imo.
That’s not how it works. At all.
If I walk through my local town centre there are many advertising boards outside shops. They have been given permission for those. I cannot just put ‘whatever I want there’ because someone else is and they don’t own it either
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I would ask the PO to move the signs from your property and use that land for a wheelie bin.
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!!0 -
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!!
So the only option here is for the tenant to leave if she cannot cope with the current arrangement?0
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