I live on a very narrow lane on the edge of a village. The newish owner of
quite a large bungalow (with large garden) a bit further down the lane has
approx. 50 yards of awful 12ft high Leylandi hedge. He had it trimmed last
friday (long overdue). The trimmings - lots of it - have just been left
lying in the lane covering half of it. Still there today.

Never seen anything like this before. Or am I just getting old and having a
moan about nothing ?
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

Hugh Jampton wrote:

I live on a very narrow lane on the edge of a village. The newish owner of
quite a large bungalow (with large garden) a bit further down the lane has
approx. 50 yards of awful 12ft high Leylandi hedge. He had it trimmed last
friday (long overdue). The trimmings - lots of it - have just been left
lying in the lane covering half of it. Still there today.

Never seen anything like this before. Or am I just getting old and having a
moan about nothing ?

A near neighbour of mine has apparently been the victim of a
scam. Some itinerants called, and told him that he had to let
them trim several large trees because the chap next door had
complained, which was completely untrue.

To say the result was butchery would be an understatement. They
didn't remove any material, and charged him £400 for the job.

Chris
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Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

"Hugh Jampton" wrote ...
I live on a very narrow lane on the edge of a village. The newish owner of
quite a large bungalow (with large garden) a bit further down the lane has
approx. 50 yards of awful 12ft high Leylandi hedge. He had it trimmed last
friday (long overdue). The trimmings - lots of it - have just been left
lying in the lane covering half of it. Still there today.

Never seen anything like this before. Or am I just getting old and having
a
moan about nothing ?

If you don't want to approach the owners then call the local Council Road
Sweeping Dept and tell them it's a dangerous situation for any motorcyclist,
someone has dropped a load of leaves that are now wet and covering the road,
in my experience they will be round in a matter of hours. (i.e.. very
quickly)

--
Regards
Bob Hobden

On 15/10/07 20:32, in article ,
"Hugh Jampton" wrote:

I live on a very narrow lane on the edge of a village. The newish owner of
quite a large bungalow (with large garden) a bit further down the lane has
approx. 50 yards of awful 12ft high Leylandi hedge. He had it trimmed last
friday (long overdue). The trimmings - lots of it - have just been left
lying in the lane covering half of it. Still there today.

Never seen anything like this before. Or am I just getting old and having a
moan about nothing ?

No, you're not having a moan about nothing. If that material gets wet and
causes someone to have a skid and accident in their car, he'll be liable.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:54:13 GMT, Chris J Dixon wrote:

A near neighbour of mine has apparently been the victim of a
scam. Some itinerants called, and told him that he had to let
them trim several large trees because the chap next door had
complained, which was completely untrue.

To say the result was butchery would be an understatement. They
didn't remove any material, and charged him £400 for the job.

Nasty - but in this day and age - normal I guess :-(

Not applicable in the case I've mentioned though. The new owners of the
bungalow are not very nice and certainly would not employ anyone to do
anything. They run a business from their house - bathroom fitting (council
estates) for the local council. They bring all the old baths etc. and burn
them in their garden. Young lad (employee) - loud music all day long -
bonfire - toxic smells all day long. Luckily I live some way away. Don't
know how closer neighbours manage.

Nice doctor lived there before - kept the lovely garden nice ..... please
come back :-)

And *yes* I have contacted our local council - they don't want to know :-(
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:51:41 +0100, Bob Hobden wrote:

If you don't want to approach the owners then call the local Council Road
Sweeping Dept and tell them it's a dangerous situation for any motorcyclist,
someone has dropped a load of leaves that are now wet and covering the road,
in my experience they will be round in a matter of hours. (i.e.. very
quickly)

Thanks but I'm afraid calling my local council is a total waste of time
(I've done it on many occasions). They just aint interested in anything :-(
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:52:45 +0100, Sacha wrote:

No, you're not having a moan about nothing. If that material gets wet and
causes someone to have a skid and accident in their car, he'll be liable.

I'll have another look tomorrow. Might even take my camera with me :-)
Might even let you all have a look :-)
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

On 15/10/07 23:35, in article ,
"Hugh Jampton" wrote:

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:54:13 GMT, Chris J Dixon wrote:

A near neighbour of mine has apparently been the victim of a
scam. Some itinerants called, and told him that he had to let
them trim several large trees because the chap next door had
complained, which was completely untrue.

To say the result was butchery would be an understatement. They
didn't remove any material, and charged him £400 for the job.

Nasty - but in this day and age - normal I guess :-(

Not applicable in the case I've mentioned though. The new owners of the
bungalow are not very nice and certainly would not employ anyone to do
anything. They run a business from their house - bathroom fitting (council
estates) for the local council. They bring all the old baths etc. and burn
them in their garden. Young lad (employee) - loud music all day long -
bonfire - toxic smells all day long. Luckily I live some way away. Don't
know how closer neighbours manage.

Nice doctor lived there before - kept the lovely garden nice ..... please
come back :-)

And *yes* I have contacted our local council - they don't want to know :-(

Environmental Health are who you need to talk to.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

"Hugh Jampton" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:54:13 GMT, Chris J Dixon wrote:

A near neighbour of mine has apparently been the victim of a
scam. Some itinerants called, and told him that he had to let
them trim several large trees because the chap next door had
complained, which was completely untrue.

To say the result was butchery would be an understatement. They
didn't remove any material, and charged him £400 for the job.

Nasty - but in this day and age - normal I guess :-(

Not applicable in the case I've mentioned though. The new owners of the
bungalow are not very nice and certainly would not employ anyone to do
anything. They run a business from their house - bathroom fitting (council
estates) for the local council. They bring all the old baths etc. and burn
them in their garden. Young lad (employee) - loud music all day long -
bonfire - toxic smells all day long. Luckily I live some way away. Don't
know how closer neighbours manage.

Nice doctor lived there before - kept the lovely garden nice ..... please
come back :-)

And *yes* I have contacted our local council - they don't want to know :-(
--

Wrong council. Contact your county council and specifically the waste
management director. Don't phone, write. They have to log it in and action
it then.

Several offences are being committed here.The bathroom fittings etc are
controlled waste and subject to duty of care restrictions. They are
certainly not allowed to burn those baths. Specifically ask for an
inspection of the site. Health and Safety will also want to know, both about
the burning of controlled waste and the road hazard. Environmental health
will also be interested in the noise pollution, councils have an officer
dedicated to noise issues.

Steve

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:47:32 +0100, Hugh Jampton
wrote:

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:51:41 +0100, Bob Hobden wrote:

If you don't want to approach the owners then call the local Council Road
Sweeping Dept and tell them it's a dangerous situation for any motorcyclist,
someone has dropped a load of leaves that are now wet and covering the road,
in my experience they will be round in a matter of hours. (i.e.. very
quickly)

Thanks but I'm afraid calling my local council is a total waste of time
(I've done it on many occasions). They just aint interested in anything :-(

My emails to my council must be getting caught in their spam traps.
Either that or I'm on the ignore list.

We have something called a community council which is supposed to let
us influence 5 areas of council work (one of them is bins/recycling
and I assume another is street cleaning)
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http://www.freedeliveryuk.co.uk
Or get it delivered for free

"Hugh Jampton" wrote ...
Bob Hobden wrote:

If you don't want to approach the owners then call the local Council Road
Sweeping Dept and tell them it's a dangerous situation for any
motorcyclist,
someone has dropped a load of leaves that are now wet and covering the
road,
in my experience they will be round in a matter of hours. (i.e.. very
quickly)

Thanks but I'm afraid calling my local council is a total waste of time
(I've done it on many occasions). They just aint interested in anything
:-(

I thought the same but when I phoned ours about gravel on the road they
cleared it up within two hours after I mentioned the danger to any
motorcyclist. They do not want to be sued.
Worth a call anyway, so if anyone you know does have an accident because of
the leaves they can sue the Council which may make them wake up in future.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

Thanks to all of you for your helpful suggestions :-)

Update :-

I walked along the lane today and to my surprise the bulk of the trimmings
have been removed. Not a very good job done - still messy but not a danger
anymore :-) It was there for 3 days - I'm still amazed that anyone would
leave a mess like that on a road for so long - I won't even do that
*inside* my garden.

As for our council - they really are bad. Bottom of the league table until
last year when they moved up a couple of places - still rated as poor
though. I think some of you must have good performing councils and perhaps
don't realise have bad the bad ones can be.

I've contacted my council's environment health dept. on several occasions
and never got anywhere. On one occasion I was so upset that they didn't
want to know I contacted the police - they also didn't want to know. I then
contacted my MP - she *did* want to know and got in touch with the council
and followed up my case for quite a long time. She also got nowhere with
them but did apologise to me and left me in no doubt that she felt the same
way as me about the council.

I think I'd better stop moaning :-)

Thanks again folks.
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

"Chris J Dixon" wrote in message
...
Hugh Jampton wrote:

I live on a very narrow lane on the edge of a village. The newish owner of
quite a large bungalow (with large garden) a bit further down the lane has
approx. 50 yards of awful 12ft high Leylandi hedge. He had it trimmed last
friday (long overdue). The trimmings - lots of it - have just been left
lying in the lane covering half of it. Still there today.

Never seen anything like this before. Or am I just getting old and having
a
moan about nothing ?

A near neighbour of mine has apparently been the victim of a
scam. Some itinerants called, and told him that he had to let
them trim several large trees because the chap next door had
complained, which was completely untrue.

If I get visits from people like that, I thank them and tell them I will
inform my gardener, or whoever!

On 16/10/07 18:13, in article ,
"Hugh Jampton" wrote:

Thanks to all of you for your helpful suggestions :-)

Update :-

I walked along the lane today and to my surprise the bulk of the trimmings
have been removed. Not a very good job done - still messy but not a danger
anymore :-) It was there for 3 days - I'm still amazed that anyone would
leave a mess like that on a road for so long - I won't even do that
*inside* my garden.

As for our council - they really are bad. Bottom of the league table until
last year when they moved up a couple of places - still rated as poor
though. I think some of you must have good performing councils and perhaps
don't realise have bad the bad ones can be.

I've contacted my council's environment health dept. on several occasions
and never got anywhere. On one occasion I was so upset that they didn't
want to know I contacted the police - they also didn't want to know. I then
contacted my MP - she *did* want to know and got in touch with the council
and followed up my case for quite a long time. She also got nowhere with
them but did apologise to me and left me in no doubt that she felt the same
way as me about the council.

I think I'd better stop moaning :-)

No, don't. It's the only way to get results sometimes. I'm sorry you've
got such uninterested people on the council but remember - they're elected.
Stand against them yourself or at least raise public awareness.

Thanks again folks.


--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

"Sacha" wrote
No, don't. It's the only way to get results sometimes. I'm sorry you've
got such uninterested people on the council but remember - they're
elected.
Stand against them yourself or at least raise public awareness.

Only Councillors are elected and they have little to do with the everyday
things Councils are supposed to do. The Council workers are employed to do a
job and if they don't do it complain to their boss the Head of the Council
and your Ward Councillor (who can kick arse) and continue upwards until
someone does something about the situation.
Names and contact details of all concerned should be on your Councils Web
Site.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden