to ask if this is a London thing?

[northernweather]

We live next to a house that is owned by a London HA. The house has its own storage for bin bags right next to the front door but neighbours who moved out last year used to just open their door and chuck their bin bags next to the doorstep. They also never used actual bin bags but multiple carrier bags and the bags would stay there all week until rubbish day (so 24/7).

They finally left (after a multitude of other issues I won't go into detail with) and new tenants moved in at the end of last year. They too ignore the bin storage, open their door and drop piles of blue carrier bags filled with rubbish next to their doorstep.

Is this something that is done in London?! I don't understand the logic - and if I am being honest am bit pissed off we are having to see a pile of food/nappy filled blue bags every single day again - but just pretty baffled?

@Tullyjune

I am not from London and where I live we have wheely bins so I never see neighbours rubbish habits.

I’m just here to ask why a London HA (housing association right?) own a property that’s not in London? Is this the thing I’ve heard of where social housing tenants are being shipped out of London to other areas? I always assumed they just went to a local HA. I had no idea that l London councils were buying up property in other towns and sending social tenants to them. That’s quite shocking (if that’s what’s happening). Talk about social cleansing!!

A Housing Association can own and build anywhere within reason. They do not need to be regional. An example of this would be Notting Hill Housing Association who build everywhere. They're more of a not-for-profit developer. Councils can buy properties and having to because in places like London they do not have large enough properties to service the clients. For example if you turn up a council looking for a home for you, your husband and 4 kids you could either be in temporary accommodation for years until something suitable comes up or you could be offered a 4 bed property in Milton Keynes. Its not social cleansing, its a massive lack of funding, right to buy and other central government issues that have forced this to happen. Very sad but true.

I'm from London and we don't even use bin bags. We just chuck our rubbish, recycling and contents of the chamber pot out of an upstairs window, vaguely in the direction of the bins.

Sometimes try to time it when my nosey, goady, judgemental neighbour is walking underneath

My mum taught me that way and her mum before her. Learned it when I learned how to jelly an eel and just before I learned how to shank a Millwall fan.

Hth

I'm in central London in an area where most properties don't have bin storage, many are listed buildings and some have front doors directly on to the street. Rubbish and recycling is collected twice a day. You have to leave rubbish in bags at the edge of your property or on the pavement if you don't have a doorstep. You are only allowed to put it out 30 minutes before your time slot but it could be several hours before it actually gets collected... Generally it works well though.

I'm from London and I don't do this. I just drop the rubbish on the floor of my house and it gets naturally flattened down as I walk about. When it's up to my waist I move house and let the next resident deal with it.

@SomersetHamlyn

I'm from London and we don't even use bin bags. We just chuck our rubbish, recycling and contents of the chamber pot out of an upstairs window, vaguely in the direction of the bins.

Sometimes try to time it when my nosey, goady, judgemental neighbour is walking underneath

My mum taught me that way and her mum before her. Learned it when I learned how to jelly an eel and just before I learned how to shank a Millwall fan.

Hth

Hark at you. Where I live we just crap out of the window, no chamber pots for us.

OP I saw this happening far more when I lived in london (central, N, and Nw at various times) than when I have lived in eith the south west or rural Buckinghamshire. Anecdote of course, so sue me.

I would guess it might be due to a) more HMOs where tenants each have a smaller bin in their own room and just use shopping bags as bin liners. b) a higher proportion of transient people - students, short term contractors etc in urban areas, who have less time in a property to learn how the bins etc are dealt with, before moving on.

It's no excuse tho, dumping rubbish not in a proper wheelie bin is disgusting, unsanitary and attracts vermin.

I wouldn’t say it’s a London thing but my previous house in London didn’t have wheelie bins until September 2019 (and even then it was just a trial) so some people did just put bags outside.

Most people had their own little bin but that was up to you to buy for yourself so some didn’t bother. We had a massive issue with foxes and litter which I think probably prompted the trial.

London has foxes. Enough said. Not putting your bin bag int he storage is a recipe for disaster of the contents becoming strewn across your entrance.

@JorisBonson

In my part of London we regularly chuck our bedpans out of the window.

Yes, we do that, too.

But our road is quite posh so we shout "Garde L'Eau!" first.

The expression 'the loo' was invented on our road. True fact.

@Tullyjune

I am not from London and where I live we have wheely bins so I never see neighbours rubbish habits.

I’m just here to ask why a London HA (housing association right?) own a property that’s not in London? Is this the thing I’ve heard of where social housing tenants are being shipped out of London to other areas? I always assumed they just went to a local HA. I had no idea that l London councils were buying up property in other towns and sending social tenants to them. That’s quite shocking (if that’s what’s happening). Talk about social cleansing!!

It’s not just London, IIRC Birmingham city council has bought some of a new development near me for social housing. I’m in the south west.

London people are filthy; we weren't brought up to observe the basic rules of hygiene. We also all walk around with guns in our pockets and every day is a pea souper.