Ding ding: Claralou's overgrown vegetation versus Council, Round 2

Is that Woo's house?

 

No, but this is his rose garden. (The Cathedral gardens. I seem to remember Woo has spent some time looking after the roses.)

 

Hello FC

No. If you look at the first photo you'll see just a small part of the large tangle of plants growing over my end wall. The reason the council has got involved is that they're obstructing the pavement.

 

i think from now on ClaraLou, you need to make yourself the councils worst nightmare. i'd complain about every bottle top, scrap of newspaper, lolly stick, stone, anything that constitutes debris and/or litter in the vacinity.
2 e-mails a day to them 'til xmas should do it, any paving that is slightly raised or cracked that'll cause little old ida-may from down the road to trip, moss on the paving, leaves from the autumn fall in the gutters, you get the gist

it'll cost the beggars far more than the grand they wanted to take of you i'll tell you. councils=legal bully boy extortion.

 

Funnily enough, Loofah, we tried that one! The road wasn't a dead end when we moved here, but became one after the Council approved the building of a new housing estate. This left the perfect little hole for crims to dump rubbish and burn out cars. We tried to buy the bit behind our house so that we wouldn't have the problem. The answer was no, of course.

Everyone moans about councils, but ours really takes some beating in the general uselessness stakes. We've decided that the grandeur of the department's name is inversely proportional to its usefulness. Overgrown plants are the responsibility of the 'Department of Community, Regeneration and Culture'.

 

Well, my trusty garden clearance guys have turned up bright and early this morning. They were a little surprised to find that the Council's 'clear up' had left them having to work in a rubbish tip, but fortunately they haven't thrown their tools down in a huff (I guess that's the difference between working for yourself and working for a public institution). I wouldn't have blamed them if they'd simply legged it, because yet more rubbish has been dumped. It has been joined by this handy appliance.

 

Time to phone/ email the council...........
Don't let em off the hook!!

 

what catztail said. straight on the phone and put the first (of many) complaints in.

 

I'm fuming reading this ClaralouSurely your neighbours can't be happy about it either....some support from them would be good...i'd also keep giving the police a call re 'fly tipping'.....
It's only a shame whoever dumped that fridge didn't 'place' it across the entrance to the cul-de-sac....thus causing an obstruction............so the next time anyone wanted to dump anything they'd have to climb over it to do so...........................:WINK1:

 

Hello Loli.

Well, actually I think some of neighbours believe the problem is due to my plants, whereas I know that things go back much further than that. I stopped clearing up and maintaining the boundary because I simply couldn't bear it any longer. This is not an area with many gardeners, and some people tend to see vegetation, even of the well- kept variety, as a bit of threat. Why not just have some nice concrete like everyone else? Why do I have to be different? A stray stem of Clematis 'Etoile Violette' had the cheek to flop over my neighbour's fence the other day. It was rudely cut off in its prime. So anyway, as far as I'm concerned I've done my bit, the plants are gone and they can all get on with it. I wish them many pleasant conversations with the local council. It now has a 'Customer First' line for complaints. You send an e-mail and get an automatic message in return, thanking you for your communication and promising to get back in a week or so. Perhaps. Maybe. If there's time. It's essential to prioritise things and do the important stuff first, such as thinking up this week's ridiculous departmental names. 'Community, Regeneration and Culture' is going to be pretty hard to beat. But I quite like 'Department for Diversity, Inclusivity and Bovine Excrement'.

 

Cram all the rubbish into it first though.