Annie wrote:
Beware! there is some idiot driving a small white van dumping rubbish in sydenham, he very kindly left an old rusty exhaust pipe by the side of my house which we then had to take to the tip.
Shame we didn't manage to get his number plate ................but if there's a next time WE WILL MATEY.
I have exactly the same problem Minifox, I am in a block of ten, seven of which have been sublet (despite the lease clearly stating that you can't sublet). We have an absentee landlord who owns the freehold and who provides no service whatsoever and responds to nothing I've ever written to him (he lives outside of the UK). Every time a tenant moves out we have beds, domestic appliances, old TV's etc. dumped in anticipation that the bin-men will take it away, which they never will, and often they then never empty the bins either if the bins are obstructed by the stuff dumped. Then fly-tippers continually come and dump their stuff here too, it's a total nightmare, and if I don't do anything about it on each occasion then nobody else ever does! We frequently get cars dumped on our premises (there's two here right now), and whilst that Lewisham Council website intimates they're concerned about fly-tipping and willing to help, I can assure you they just don't, unless they're paid to take dumped rubbish away. The police never want to know as soon as they're informed it's private property (they always ask when I report anything so I can't avoid telling them). The best advice I get from the police and the council is "contact your landlord", I did write twice by recorded delivery (concerning the general state of affairs here) to a solicitor who was supposed to represent our landlord, I never even received an acknowledgement!MiniFox wrote:Not a problem Annie... It winds me up too. There's just no excuse - and driving up and dumping on others' property is indefensible! We have a number of flats which are sublet in our private converted block and every time people move out I end up having to get rid of whatever people dump by the bins (beds, mattresses, chairs, sofas!!!!!!) Drives me up the wall! I have the council refuse team on speed dial
Wing, I had two people come from the environmental team a few weeks ago. Providing a registration number simply wasn't enough, neither was providing precise details of the make/model of vehicle involved, the exact time and date they were seen dumping, or descriptions of the individuals. "It's only your word against his, and he'll just deny he's done it" they told me. What they required was photographic evidence of the actual incident along with photographic evidence of what materials were dumped. That just isn't going to be possible, because the particular area where this happens is not overlooked (which is why they keep doing it) and they usually do it late at night or very early hours of the morning when it's dark. The other problem for me is that I'm just not at the premises all of the time, so I'm totally up against it. The only way we're going to resolve this is by investing many thousands of pounds in securing the whole place, and that will be organised over the coming months (we need planning permission apparently, of course the council will waive the application fee due to the reasons we're forced to do this, won't they!). So that will end our problems which then will just become someone else's, because they'll just find another place around Sydenham to go and dump. And that really isn't the answer to this problem, is it! As Chazza states, this whole situation is created by the local authority who really do nothing to help, and if my community charge was cut by 50% to offset the huge expense I have to go to because of their lack of service (from police, council/environmental team), then fine, but that isn't happening either.Wing wrote:Next time note down the registration number of the culprit's vehicle. If it is a commerical vehicle or the dumped rubbish is commercial waste I believe you can report to the Environment Agency. I have been advised that if the Council refuses to act you could refer the issue to the local council ombudsman.
I had actually recognised your comment as being flippant Eagle, I just seized on it as an excuse to try and get this guys reg number on here (still no consent from admin so I'd better not). I had the environmental team come just after he'd filled our bins with rubble, they were hardly very constructive. "It's not a criminal matter when it's done on private property, you'll have to get your landlord to sue him under civil law" was the best they could come up with, they weren't even interested in looking at what he'd dumped! Neither would they even bother making enquiries as to who the vehicle belonged to and informing me, so how can anybody sue him? Like I say, we'll have to spend the most of £20,000 putting up fencing and automated gates so that fly-tipping and dumped cars are no longer an issue, but that simply makes the problem go elsewhere.Eagle wrote:Maestro
I was being flipant. Never forgive Anthony Blair Esq of bringing in this much abused act.
I regret there is really no solution to this problem under current law.
Honest people like you pay for the council to collect or take to dump. The other section of society do not give a dam . I am sure you know which section the gentleman in question emantes from.
It's quite clear you have no idea what you are talking about....stop reading the Daily Mail. The Act was already law before it was passed due to the ECHR. In anycase, what, precisely is wrong with it? It's actually a rather nice law...Eagle wrote:Maestro
I was being flipant. Never forgive Anthony Blair Esq of bringing in this much abused act.
