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Planning permission for gardens?
While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various
daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce waste production, mainly grass clippings! What a racket this recycling business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, where it is mainly dumped in landfill! |
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Planning permission for gardens?
! What a racket this recycling
business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, where it is mainly dumped in landfill! http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/resour...eets/Glass.htm |
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Planning permission for gardens?
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:13:54 +0100, Broadback
wrote: While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce waste production, mainly grass clippings! What a racket this recycling business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, where it is mainly dumped in landfill! Well I never believe anything I read in a paper, but this certainly fits in with the government's aim to classify gardens as 'brownfield sites' for building blocks of flats. Perhaps they think that if we can't cultivate our gardens as we wish, we might be more inclined to sell them off for building. I am really getting to HATE this government and all it stands for. |
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Planning permission for gardens?
In article , Broadback
writes While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce waste production, mainly grass clippings! What a racket this recycling business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, where it is mainly dumped in landfill! The link is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai.../09/09/eagarde n109.xml -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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In message , Janet Tweedy
writes In article , Broadback writes While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce waste production, mainly grass clippings! What a racket this recycling business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, where it is mainly dumped in landfill! The link is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai.../09/09/eagarde n109.xml Had a struggle to patch that link together. The article consists mainly of an opportunist Tory rant about a discussion document, and rambles on about paper recycling among other things. :-) -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply |
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Broadback wrote:
While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce waste production, mainly grass clippings! What a racket this recycling business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, where it is mainly dumped in landfill! So, take up lawns and replace them with................block paving? ......................yeah, lets encourage some more flooding. Talking of flooding, I'd agree with banning junk mail. Less to recycle, more trees left standing........hopefully. -- Pete C London UK |
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In message , Broadback
writes While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce waste production, mainly grass clippings! What a racket this recycling business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, where it is mainly dumped in landfill! The only example of this, as far as I remember, is the proposed planning permission which could be required to _pave over_ gardens. The amount of flooding which has occurred over the last few years is probably not helped by covering the land with concrete! -- Gordon H Remove "invalid" to reply |
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On 2008-09-09 17:08:35 +0100, Gordon H
said: In message , Broadback writes While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce waste production, mainly grass clippings! What a racket this recycling business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, where it is mainly dumped in landfill! The only example of this, as far as I remember, is the proposed planning permission which could be required to _pave over_ gardens. The amount of flooding which has occurred over the last few years is probably not helped by covering the land with concrete! DEFRA will shortly introduce legislation to dispense with the requirement to obtain planning permission for paving -- as long as the paving material used is permeable. In view of the increased incidence of flooding, it seems sensible to move away from hard landscaping which could increase the flooding danger to our homes. And when we suffer from drought instead, impermeable surfaces conduct rainwater to drains from where it flows uselessly out to sea. Better to allow it to be absorbed by the land, where some of it will reach the aquifers. It could also reduce the risk of subsidence - which became very common on clay soils during recent droughts. |
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In article , Stan The Man writes: | | DEFRA will shortly introduce legislation to dispense with the | requirement to obtain planning permission for paving -- as long as the | paving material used is permeable. In view of the increased incidence | of flooding, it seems sensible to move away from hard landscaping which | could increase the flooding danger to our homes. | | And when we suffer from drought instead, impermeable surfaces conduct | rainwater to drains from where it flows uselessly out to sea. Better to | allow it to be absorbed by the land, where some of it will reach the | aquifers. It could also reduce the risk of subsidence - which became | very common on clay soils during recent droughts. Our front 'garden' is permeable block paved with a central drain. The County Council has raised the pavement over the years so that it runs into our garden every time there is a rainstorm, and our drive fills to a depth of c. 4" before draining. I have wondered whether to send the County Council a bill for providing drainage services .... Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 2008-09-13 12:38:04 +0100, VivienB said:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:52:13 +0100, Stan The Man wrote: the local authority has neglected these ditches for years, here and just about everywhere else, with the result that they have all filled in and are no longer visible to the naked eye. The local authority here told me that they are not responsible for any more than cutting the first metre of verge - the landowner is said to be responsible for hedging and ditching. That is the case with some ditches but the majority hereabouts are situated in no-man's-land between private property and the highway - called the Highway Extent I believe - and their maintenance is definitely a duty of the local authority. |
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On Sep 9, 1:13*pm, Broadback wrote:
While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce waste production, mainly grass clippings! What a racket this recycling business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, where it is mainly dumped in landfill! Beware of newspaper headlines - especially some of your most imaginative British red-tops! If you're interested in the topic, I'd suggest researching it seriously as to what draft legislation may be in the pipeline in this regard - if any. Cat(h) |
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In article , "Cat(h)" writes: | On Sep 9, 1:13=A0pm, Broadback wrote: | While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various | daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed | the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can | do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce waste | production, mainly grass clippings! What a racket this recycling | business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for | recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, | where it is mainly dumped in landfill! | | Beware of newspaper headlines - especially some of your most | imaginative British red-tops! Regrettably, Mordochisation now means that includes most of the old broadsheets - and the Torygraph has been the most unreliable heap of rubbish on such matters for decades. Frankly, the only widely available papers where the news isn't more propaganda than fact are the Scotsman, the Independent and the Guardian - and they get increasingly woolly-minded in that order, so you have to allow for them being just plain addled. You should, of course, ignore the carefully balanced collection of unbalanced loons that the Independent allows free rein to in the Opinions and Comment section. But at least those three TRY to separate fact from polemic - the others actually try to dress up polemic as fact - not that they need to be that subtle for their readership :-( Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , "Cat(h)" writes: | On Sep 9, 1:13=A0pm, Broadback wrote: | While waiting for my wife to shop I browsed the headlines of various | daily papers this morning. One of them,I never noticed which, claimed | the dear old government are planning to bring in rules about what we can | do with our gardens. It seems that this is an attempt to reduce waste | production, mainly grass clippings! What a racket this recycling | business is becoming. We spent energy to clean bottles, glasses etc for | recycling then is is all dumped together and shipped to India it seems, | where it is mainly dumped in landfill! | | Beware of newspaper headlines - especially some of your most | imaginative British red-tops! snip subjective opinion Nobody has the right to persuade others what is good to read and what is not good. I don't read any newspapers but I don't suggest that others don't. If you don't like the papers don't waste your life on them. Mary |
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