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Skip outside my house

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ridemesideways · 14/03/2016 13:56

There has been a skip outside our house for weeks and weeks.

We live in a mid-terraced house with on street parking. We don't own a space, it's a first-come-first-served deal. It can be really busy at times with no spaces available at all.

A house across and down the street a bit is having a lot of work done on it.

There's a skip in the road to accommodate this, but it's outside our front door rather than immediately opposite the house in question. I guess this was the best space available when the lorry was here putting the skip down...

It's very annoying. Our front door is completely glass and opens directly onto the skip pavement and we don't have a hall. When sitting in the front room I'm literally looking at and hearing the sounds of things being chucked into the skip.

I work from home, which requires a certain degree of peace. I'm having to reorganise things as I don't know how much noise there will be during weekdays.

WWYD? I don't know who has bought the house, but there's contact details for a builder on a hoarding fence thing.

Am I being precious and should I have thought this kind of thing through before buying a terraced house? Hmm

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Jackiebrambles · 14/03/2016 15:07

Yanbu.

I've got the rage as there is a skip on our road, right outside our house, and it's not even for a house on our road!! It's for another road but that has an access driveway that leads from our road.

anyway I think it's a bloody Liberty and I feel your pain. I have a baby and a toddler and dealing with them both when I have to park far away makes me want to throw all my rubbish in their skip!!

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ridemesideways · 14/03/2016 15:09

No lights. One cone that's been driven into and shoved underneath.

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ridemesideways · 14/03/2016 15:11

Oh no Jackie, it's awful isn't it. I sometimes have clients visiting me, and it doesn't look very professional!

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TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 14/03/2016 15:12

I live in a terrace, and I've noticed that often when it comes to emptying the skip the lorry that comes to take it away, deposits a new empty one in the road, loads up the full one and then sort of swings the new one into the empty space if they haven't been beeped to death by irate drivers by then. It's very quick.

On that basis I would pop over and specifically request that the next skip is placed outside their home. Gauge their response and if it's anything other than "absolutely of course", then start looking at their permit situation.

ilovesooty · 14/03/2016 15:12

I'm having a skip later in the week. It's only staying for the day, it will be licensed and I'm just hoping no one minds too much. I can't cone the area outside my house off as I won't be around the night before but I'm trying to let the neighbours know.

anonacfr · 14/03/2016 15:42

I thought you weren't legally allowed to cone off spaces on the road?
I seem to remember a neighbour explaining that the council issues an official sign to reserve the space once the skip has been ordered.
If it's not licensed the council will (or should) remove it.

Sadly if it is officially licensed the permit can be renewed indefinitely and until the council cancels it there is nothing that can be done.

GloGirl · 14/03/2016 16:06

I would go barmy. I'd knock on their door and ask them if they knew how antisocial and un-neighbourly they were being? I mean, their house is a building site so what difference would a skip make to them? No, they have gone and spoil the quiet enjoyment of someone else's home.

Id ask then to have it removed by Friday.

trevortrevorslatterfry · 14/03/2016 16:09

Top fact malmi - every day's a school day!

bumbleymummy · 14/03/2016 16:14

YANBU! This would annoy me too.

dodobookends · 14/03/2016 16:15

The builders will have hired it from a skip company, their name should be on the side. Maybe you could pretend to be the builders call them and ask them to take it away or move it?

Ifailed · 14/03/2016 16:16

Sorry, but I don't agree with majority here. As you rightly point out, you don't have any rights to the street outside your property. Sure check if they have a permit, but other than that I can't see what the problem is.

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ridemesideways · 14/03/2016 16:22

GloGirl - The house is unoccupied, otherwise I'd knock on the door and speak to the neighbours. I will speak to the builders though.

dodobookends There's no company branding on the skip.

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Roussette · 14/03/2016 16:28

How irritating, they are just lazy not coning off the space outside the house being worked on.

We had a skip on our drive. It was delivered late one day. In the morning I woke up to see there was a bath and toilet in it Shock

pippistrelle · 14/03/2016 16:28

I get that it's annoying, and sure, you could ask how long it'll be there, but that won't make them move it any faster. They didn't put it there to annoy you, and if you live around other people, well sometimes they do annoying things. I'd focus on trying to care less.

leelu66 · 14/03/2016 16:35

Is there a company number on the skip? If the skip is full, just call it and ask for it to be collected Grin

SohowdoIdothis · 14/03/2016 17:32

Ask the council, ours require permission to put skips on roads now, and ours do not give permission to do so,

We have many companies that come and take builder rubbish away and cost far less than a skip, you almost never see them here anymore.

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ridemesideways · 16/03/2016 12:11

Ha! They don't have permission and the council are beginning enforcement... No guarantee that it'll get shifted though. No sign of builders in last day or so. At least it's quiet.

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ridemesideways · 16/03/2016 16:19

Tis gone! That was quick. Thanks to all who suggested sending an enquiry to the council.

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IamCarcass · 16/03/2016 16:26

Read the original thread, glad to hear the good ending!

PurpleCrazyHorse · 16/03/2016 16:41

Marvellous. I do love the Council sometimes Grin

We've just had a skip but we made sure there was space on our drive (behind our gates to avoid flytipping in it).

whatevva · 16/03/2016 16:45

Super!

Councils are the only ones who get things done here too. Love our Parish Council.

Paperchaserr · 16/03/2016 16:53

Are you sure Malmi? Tommy Cooper certainly used that joke and he died in 1984 whereas Tim Vine was born in 1967 and was Best Newcomer in 1995.
Glad the OP sorted their problem though

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