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WillowTheWhisp · 03-09-2004, 14:29

I can go one better than that.

Last year whilst we were on holiday someone vandalised my shed. The thing had to be demolished and disposed of along with most of the contents.

I piled a load of broken things from the shed in the backyard and phoned the council to ask for their removal. They asked me what was in the pile. I told them a load of broken things from inside a semi demolished shed. I had even cordoned off that area behind a yellow rope (although a large pile of rubbish is quite easily distinguishable from things such as patio pots containing lavender bushes and trees) However they still insisted that I itemise the lot. They were not even willing to accept such generalised terms like "pieces of wood" - they wanted to know how many pieces and approximate sizes! I went through all that and made a huge long list which I then read out to them over the phone. They then suggested that I label the pile "rubbish for collection" ! I did so. After a week or three the pile was eventually removed.

Then came the demolishing of the remains of the shed. This we duly piled up and I phoned the council yet again. This time however they were far too busy to collect anything at any time and asked if I could deliver it to the tip.

We piled most of it onto trailer and off up to Whinney Hill - where we were greated with "What's all that then? You can't bring that much rubbish here! It's industrial that is" I told them it was the remains of an ordinary garden shed and couldn't remotely be classed as industrial - they weren't impressed. When I informed them that we had another load plus an old washing machine and muttered something about the alternative being flytipping and no wonder why people did it, that didn't go down too well either!

We were permitted to take the second load but they also took down a lot of details about who we were and where we had come from with our rubbish.

Recently took an old fridge which had stopped working and been replaced by a new one and that required "details" to be taken!!

It doesn't really encourage people to be responsible with their rubbish does it?

03-09-2004, 14:29	#20
WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: What is good about HBC I can go one better than that. Last year whilst we were on holiday someone vandalised my shed. The thing had to be demolished and disposed of along with most of the contents. I piled a load of broken things from the shed in the backyard and phoned the council to ask for their removal. They asked me what was in the pile. I told them a load of broken things from inside a semi demolished shed. I had even cordoned off that area behind a yellow rope (although a large pile of rubbish is quite easily distinguishable from things such as patio pots containing lavender bushes and trees) However they still insisted that I itemise the lot. They were not even willing to accept such generalised terms like "pieces of wood" - they wanted to know how many pieces and approximate sizes! I went through all that and made a huge long list which I then read out to them over the phone. They then suggested that I label the pile "rubbish for collection" ! I did so. After a week or three the pile was eventually removed. Then came the demolishing of the remains of the shed. This we duly piled up and I phoned the council yet again. This time however they were far too busy to collect anything at any time and asked if I could deliver it to the tip. We piled most of it onto trailer and off up to Whinney Hill - where we were greated with "What's all that then? You can't bring that much rubbish here! It's industrial that is" I told them it was the remains of an ordinary garden shed and couldn't remotely be classed as industrial - they weren't impressed. When I informed them that we had another load plus an old washing machine and muttered something about the alternative being flytipping and no wonder why people did it, that didn't go down too well either! We were permitted to take the second load but they also took down a lot of details about who we were and where we had come from with our rubbish. Recently took an old fridge which had stopped working and been replaced by a new one and that required "details" to be taken!! It doesn't really encourage people to be responsible with their rubbish does it? __________________