Ive paid my VED
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Our council tax went up and now they are looking to put a charge on, to empty the garden waste bins.
Just glad that we have a log burner and plenty of free wood, to do most of our heating.
Also glad that our main car is 0 tax too and still plenty of OT at work, if I want it.
Just glad that we have a log burner and plenty of free wood, to do most of our heating.
Also glad that our main car is 0 tax too and still plenty of OT at work, if I want it.
We have had to pay extra for our garden waste for a couple of years now. We just put ours in bags and put it in the normal household bin in protest. A scattering of cat litter on top tends to stop anyone having a check to make sure that only household waste is in the bin
Rates are high enough without having to pay for additional services that used to be free.
Rates are high enough without having to pay for additional services that used to be free.
North West Surrey
When I first moved to this are in 2005 we bought a Garden Waste bin for £30 which would be emptied for free.
I moved away in 2007 and came back in 2011 and an annual charge had been introduced (£50 a year I think) or you could put it in biodegradable paper bags that you had to buy from the Council for 50p each. Then a few years ago they went up to £1 each.
I've been buying the bags but probably should get creative like Nanu!
I moved away in 2007 and came back in 2011 and an annual charge had been introduced (£50 a year I think) or you could put it in biodegradable paper bags that you had to buy from the Council for 50p each. Then a few years ago they went up to £1 each.
I've been buying the bags but probably should get creative like Nanu!
It was part of the council tax charge, we were told, when they rolled it out.Nanu said:
Anyway, something about the government wanting all councils to do more in recycling garden and food waste, is coming soon.
The government will be paying the council's to bring this in, so looks like the county swindlers are trying to get even more money from us.
I will return to burning the garden waste
At the summit of the picturesque fens
Bledlow closed a few years ago, didn't go to often as they were a bunch of monkeys.Pondrew said:I was banned from the tip at Booker (high heavens) in 2008, and the one at Bledlow Ridge in 2007. Different reasons but the same outcome!firebobby said:
High heavens is still there, they charge for most things now, apart from house hold items. :roll:
Pondrew said:I was banned from the tip at Booker (high heavens) in 2008, and the one at Bledlow Ridge in 2007. Different reasons but the same outcome!
I'm struggling to think how you get banned from a tip, poor quality of rubbish deposited?
I have 2 life bans from the MR2 ROC forum, so even being bitten during a zombie apocalypse is not getting me back on there.
Another MR2 owner, how did you get banned from the clubScubaregs said:Pondrew said:I was banned from the tip at Booker (high heavens) in 2008, and the one at Bledlow Ridge in 2007. Different reasons but the same outcome!
I'm struggling to think how you get banned from a tip, poor quality of rubbish deposited?
I have 2 life bans from the MR2 ROC forum, so even being bitten during a zombie apocalypse is not getting me back on there.
They were both quite funny really, but me being a mouthy git, fairly easily.Scubaregs said:
I did point out to both 'skip rats' (and I did use that term to them which got me off on the wrong foot admittedly) that they were funded by the Council, and I did perhaps mention something about my Council tax payments being potentially much higher than theirs in their Council owned bedsits.
Funny how easily some people take offence. :?