I have fucked up badly

[Shamefullhouse]

Omg I have Been find 400 for for tipping 250 if I pay within 10 days .

This would have been during in my time of struggling badly with my house and the state it was in my bins getting over full and really struggling with everything really badly.

I know I should not have done it but I was struggling. As far as I know they are talking about a couple of bits I took to the communal bins . ( they don't belong to me house) but to the flats behinde me. I couldn't get the bits in the bin. So I left them next to the bin. They would have been bits of wood from a unit i think .

Thank you. I know I fucked. Etc etc . I know the spelling grammar is bad. But I don't want to post on here anymore. I know I messed up . I don't want to make it worse. Thank you for the suggestion though.

I live in the first house next to a communal bin shed for the flats nearby. People like you using these bins means that they fill up more quickly and then the lids won’t shut or flat residents have to leave bags next to the bin. They then get ripped open by animals/birds and the rubbish blows into my garden EVERY SINGLE WEEK! I have had to pick up dirty baby wipes and sanitary towels in my garden because it is unhygienic and I am embarrassed if people come past and see it on my property. So if I knew who it was I would report it because I don’t want to keep picking up other peoples soiled items, not because I need to get a life! Stop making your rubbish someone else’s problem, it’s selfish!

We had such a bad problem with this that we had to get our management company to fit a gate and padlock on our bin store. Which cost us a lot of money. It still hasn't totally stopped the problem; also if people dump stuff on our property (we live on an estate of 2 small blocks) our management company then has to get someone to clear it, which drives up our management costs.

We also get people flytipping along the wall just outside our block. We've had a bath and toilet, children's toys, bits of furniture and at the moment there's a TV stand and an old Christmas tree. It looks terrible, we already have a problem with rats as wek live near a river andthis makes it worse, and we have to pick up a lot of the costs. While I'm sorry OP has had some troubles recently, I'm glad that no-one else has had to pay for her rubbish.

Ask the person taking the rubbish away to provide you with a "Waste Transfer Note"

You did wrong so now you pay. And hopefully learn from it

how would you like it if someone did to you and your bins what you did to them?

You need to pay, hopefully in instalments.
You say you had no way of getting to the tip, could you have got a taxi there, dumped the stuff and walked or got the bus home?.

Having seen the pictures, that fine seems well deserved. If you don't have the money available you'll just need to ask about installments or look at using a credit card or similar.

That's really unacceptable to fly tip like that.

If it's £60 to collect three items, you know to pay in advance next time. I have no sympathy with flytippers.

It seems the fine is deserved. You shouldn't have used their bins and filled them up so they can't even use them. but what's instead of taking things you couldn't fit in back home just dumped them at some one else's property.

I'm sorry you are having a rough time of it but sadly you shouldn't just dump your rubbish and make It someone else's problem.

I'm sorry but I don't have any sympathy. Every council has a collection service for bulky items if you can't take them to the tip yourself. You dumped it because you thought you'd get away with it. You didn't. The reason that so many areas are shitholes is because of people like you. You aren't better than the rest of them, and there is no excuse - you just throught that the people in the flats would get the blame.

@Shamefullhouse its been a bit of a pile on, I do agree that unfortunately the fine is justified but I would also caution you about the stuff dumped in your front garden. If its deemed a public health hazard they will issue a notice then come and clean it and bill you for it. You really need to arrange for that to be removed as soon as possible

Glad you were caught. Can't stand fly-tippers.

The fine is intended as a deterrent, not to represent the cost of rubbish removal, so comparisons are pointless. I live in a small block where this is a regular problem. Even if you dump a few things, other people add a few things and suddenly the tenants are living in a shit hole. Its a health hazard and an eye sore and embarrassing when people visit. We also have to cover the additional costs in our service charge, and we haven't done anything wrong.

As someone who deals endlessly with crap dumped in our binstore it's very wearing.

We are a private block and we charge £100 / hour for CCTV review and the disposal costs.

It can quickly add up.

I and my responsible neighbours put up with old furniture in our flats until we can sort a bulky item collections. So why should we then subsidise the removal of rubbish (and the inconvenience of our rubbish store being blocked) because other people aren't prepared to do that?

Good to see people who do this kind of thing being caught and deservedly fined!!

Zero sympathy here. You got what you deserved.

I hope they will let you pay by instalments, but you committed the crime and you alone are responsible for your actions. The same as people who drop cigarette butts on the floor. A couple of colleagues have been recently fined where I work. They wouldn’t stop bitching about it, oh it’s not a crime, you should be out catching murderers, people only get fined xxx for more serious offences. Nah, you got caught, so you pay the fine. Comparing yourself with other people doesn’t work any more than it did when you were a kid- oh Jane’s Mum her do xyz…dropping a cigarette but is the same as flytipping rubbish. Because you know you have dropped the other 19 butts in the packet. London looks like a dirty shithole because people have no respect for others. In Singapore you are punished severely for dropping litter, and the place is immaculate. Wish they had that in London and the UK.

Contact the council and discuss a payment plan so you can pay in instalments.

Flytipping is a major problem in some areas. Who wants to see all that crap let alone live next to it? I remember going to see a lovely house in SE London but when I took a walk down the street I was completely put off by the number of old mattresses and broken furniture and crap on the pavements. I felt really sorry for the house sellers. It was on the market for ages.

I lived in a flat like this once, it was awful. It is a hefty fine OP but... The bin men wouldn’t take the bags from outside my door if they weren’t in the provided bins. See if they will let you pay in instalments l.

The thing is OP, we are all going through crap in our lives but still not fly tipping.

I am glad councils are coming down hard on this.

I don’t enjoy going to the tip but I would rather do that than dump stuff in other people’s spaces.

As someone who has lived in flats with communal bins, while I'm sympathetic to your situation I'm pleased to hear the council clamp down hard on fly tipping. Hopefully it deters others.

It pisses me off to see people fulminate against this sort of fly-tipping, if they don't also support the elimination of bulky waste collection charges.

I go to the dump when I have bulky waste, which costs me nothing except petrol while someone with a lower carbon footprint than me and on average worse off financially (non-drivers tend to have a lower income than drivers) gets charged £25 to get their bulky waste removed. This is wrong in principle, I don't see why I should benefit from a service not available to other residents who pay the same council tax as me.

I hope everyone who has lambasted the OP has also written to their local council asking them to get rid of bulky waste charges.

Domestic violence, seems to mean nothing
When your going through shit it . Its easier to fuck up I have admitted several times to fucking up .

I'm not coming back I will probably grt ripped apart for this post to. And I'm not willing to be pushed over the edge.

No. ‘Some people’ prefer not live in filth. She was rightly reported for flytipping and fined.

It’s ok!! You are upset and it’s just the internet. Of course your writing is not perfect. Mine never is, either.

Start a different thread for help with the letter if you want. It’s obviously not all your stuff and you didn’t throw it about. I think those are really important points and you should be granted some leniency. Posters here can be great at helping with letters like this.

There are strict rules about what can be placed in a communal bin in my local authority.

The refuse collectors routinely pull items that don’t meet the rules out.

I have had to listen to excuses from people upset that they gave then been charged far too often. As apparently old suitcases, TV units, and the entire carpet for a flat should have been removed as standard household waste.

Virtually everyone has stuff going on in their life. It isn’t fair to burden others. You don’t know what they are dealing with.