Fly Tipping in a council house

Resident said:
Then die of old age before the council do anything about it....
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The councils are usually fairly fast to act if it's a legitimate complaint and they can do anything about it.

It's just that they don't drop everything to deal with minor things, and there can be legal steps that are required to be taken. I suspect most people would not be amused to get the council turn and force them to clear their front garden when they're in the middle of say redecorating a bedroom and have put the old stuff on their only available bit of spare ground whilst concentrating on doing the room, or when they're in the process of assembling/laying out the new furniture and plan on taking it to the tip the next day. There is also a thing around here where you can book the council to collect furniture for disposal (something like £50 for 12 items or £25 per Fridge/freezer), IIRC they want it at the edge of your property for collection from 7am on a set day, so usually people will put it out a day before and if the council are running late (or your new stuff arrives before the collection date) it might be there for a couple of days.

It's disappointing how often I see people complaining about something the council hasn't done because the council is "lazy" or "can't be bothered" and it turns out no one had informed the council but had rather been complaining on their facebook pages or whatever. In my experience if someone contacts the council about a legitimate issue, especially if it's potentially serious/dangerous they'll get someone on it fairly fast even if just to assess it. I've had nasty potholes filled within a day of letting the council know*, and a streetlamp with exposed wiring/damaged access panel made safe within hours (noticed it as I was walking the dog at lunch time, there was a crew on it by 5pm - apparently despite them all having a reference number and contact number at about eye level to help people report damage it's rare for people to do so).
The latest a couple of weeks back was a dead deer on a pavement, I reported it (with the best location I could give, as I was driving when I saw it), and got a response about 3 hours later stating they'd raised it as urgent with their enviromental team. Apparently it was gone the next day.

IIRC there is an app for you mobile now that in many regions lets you report any issues to your local council, including photos and I think GPS location of the issue, which means it's increadibly easy to report things as you come across them now.



*Apparently it had been bad for a couple of weeks and people had been complaining about it amongst themselves, but no one had contacted the council (it was about 50x100cm and 10cm deep in a spot you couldn't really avoid it).
 
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Werewolf said:
The councils are usually fairly fast to act if it's a legitimate complaint and they can do anything about it.
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Unfortunately this is not my experience with Rotherham Council, both historically and even more recently.

Back when I was in my teens and living at home a family moved into the council property 3 doors down. They turned the small rear garden (corner plot) into a chicken farm and regularly slaughtered a chicken in the space. This caused all manner of pest and health issues. Despite numerous complaints from neighbours on both sides it took the council over a year to act.

More recently the council changed the layout of a major road. To do so they removed the speed limit signs to move the posts, putting up temporary standee signs. This is a road that halfway down it's length it switches from 40 to 30 (and vice-versa in the opposite direction. The works have now been completed and the temp signs have been removed yet the permanent signs have not been replaced.

Travelling in one direction you start in a 40, with repeaters and reach the point where the limit switches to 30 and there's nothing to inform the driver of this. The major issue is that there's a regular scamera van point about 150 yrds into the 30 zone...

I reported this the week the works finished, as of the 29/12/21, that will be 12 weeks ago. I have had ZERO response to both my original report and follow ups.

The app you're referring to, I believe, is FixMyStreet. I have used it before.
 
Is it technically fly tipping putting stuff on your own front garden/yard or is this just dramatic thread titles.

As per usual over reacting is key to any situation.

I would calmly contact the council and ask them to contact the neighbour and see what their plans for disposal are.
What with it being Christmas i expect you to wait until at least summer 2022.
 
Hardly looks like the sorta stuff to attract rats?

looks like some wood and poss bags of clothes? Prob waiting to go to the dump. Also looks to be piled together rather than strewn all over the place
 
NoobCannon said:
Hardly looks like the sorta stuff to attract rats?

looks like some wood and poss bags of clothes? Prob waiting to go to the dump. Also looks to be piled together rather than strewn all over the place
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Aye it looks almost like they've taken a bed or cot apart and cleared a wardrobe or airing cupboard out.
 
Council are probably laughing at you. I am a bit. Probably easier you load up your car as it seems to be only bothering you.

Not exactly how i had envisaged "emptying half of their house onto the driveway"

Anyway... Im sure you'll get it sorted soon.
 
Notice how nicely trimmed their lawn is though. I'd say on balance, good citizen.
 
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