£40 a year for garden waste collections

[Billy Horner]

Thanks for that, didn't know about the 25 year thing.

I'm in Stockton, and our new build has a management company section, and ~30 of us are being charged £250 a year to "look after" about 10m x 3m of grass, it's ludicrous. It's like 8k per year, and the daft thing is in two years the area has never even been touched, we're sure the management company have never even seen it. The bloke who lives near it ends up cutting it every few weeks in summer as it looks a mess otherwise, and there's also a big delve in in where someone drove over it early in the builds.

If it's 8k per year to look after that, and that's cheaper than the council option, then I dread to thing what looking after something more difficult would cost, and a much larger area.

It's cheaper for the developer, not necessarily the householder. Technically, the developer should reduce the sales price of the houses which come under a management company agreement, as there is an ongoing annual service charge which should be reflected in the price. Plenty of them don't though.

 

[Andy_W]

It's cheaper for the developer, not necessarily the householder. Technically, the developer should reduce the sales price of the houses which come under a management company agreement, as there is an ongoing annual service charge which should be reflected in the price. Plenty of them don't though.

Yeah, I can see how that can work also.

There's talk in the estate whatsapp that it's some sort of developer scam, which is basically intentional, loads of them aren't paying it and getting solicitor letters. I think they're on about lawyering up and trying to take over it ourselves.

 

[Loop]

Just save yourself a few quid and use your normal bin.

 

[FatFrank]

Councillors in Redcar get 10,000 a year.

This is something that I'd happily scrap tomorrow. I have never met a Councillor who isn't in it for their own ego. Council Officers and Contact Centres are so easily contactable these days, it really does beg the question why I need to approach my local Councillors.

 

[FatFrank]

Just save yourself a few quid and use your normal bin.

As long as you're OK paying that few quid back in further Council taxes when your local authority has to increase them due to budget pressures from non-recyclable household waste though yea? You can't have your cake and eat it.

Personally, like most things in life, the choice to recycle is down to personal attitude. If it boils down to the cost of annual collection or even whether the receptacle is right, then most likely you were never going to buy in to the recycling malarky anyway.

 

[Loop]

As long as you're OK paying that few quid back in further Council taxes when your local authority has to increase them due to budget pressures from non-recyclable household waste though yea? You can't have your cake and eat it.

Personally, like most things in life, the choice to recycle is down to personal attitude. If it boils down to the cost of annual collection or even whether the receptacle is right, then most likely you were never going to buy in to the recycling malarky anyway.

Yeah that's fine.