Southwark Council Bulk Collection

[mummydaddyme]

Just a quick heads up for those that didn't already know. Southwark council's bulk collection can now only be booked online and the service is no longer free. There is a ?16 charge.

[mrknight]

So that basically means more fly tipping

[bobbsy]

Excellent news, just what we need.

[James Barber]

We fought against it, during the decision call-in it was agree to consider exemptions for poor families.

Before the service was free Southwark had lots of fly tipping.

[ken78]

James Barber Wrote:

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> We fought against it, during the decision call-in

> it was agree to consider exemptions for poor

> families.

> Before the service was free Southwark had lots of

> fly tipping.

now it's going to have a lot more of fly tipping and how much is that going to cost southwark council.????

[DulwichFox]

ken78 Wrote:

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> James Barber Wrote:

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> -----

> > We fought against it, during the decision

> call-in

> > it was agree to consider exemptions for poor

> > families.

> > Before the service was free Southwark had lots

> of

> > fly tipping.

>

>

> now it's going to have a lot more of fly tipping

> and how much is that going to cost southwark

> council.????

They will set up cameras at known Fly-Tipping sites and fine people 100's of pounds..

This has been tried in other areas and has proved lucrative.. although they don't admit it.

It saves them money picking up goods... and the make money in fines.. They win both ways..

Close public toilets -- Fine people who wee in the street..

Remove Litter bins -- Fine people who drop litter..

Paint Yellow lines Everywhere -- Fine people who park.

This is how councils make their money..

DulwichFox

[ken78]

DulwichFox says

This has been tried in other areas and has proved lucrative.. although they don't admit it.

It saves them money picking up goods... and the make money in fines.. They win both ways..

Close public toilets -- Fine people who wee in the street..

Remove Litter bins -- Fine people who drop litter..

Paint Yellow lines Everywhere -- Fine people who park.

This is how councils make their money..

DulwichFox

so find other dump sites that are new with no cameras, job done

[Azalea]

James Barber Wrote:

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> We fought against it, during the decision call-in

> it was agree to consider exemptions for poor

> families.

> Before the service was free Southwark had lots of

> fly tipping.

What do you mean by consider exemptions for poor families? How would that work?

There is/was so much fly tipping near me in the past year. The area on the corner of Coplestone Road and Oxenford street is particularly bad.

[Deloras44]

In general, individuals and families whose household income for the year is between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty line for their family size may be eligible

[fabfor]

In Tower Hamlets, each household's allowed two free collections per year. Even once a year here would help to ease fly tipping.

[katanita]

Flipping annoying. I have to get rid of a piece of garden furniture which is falling apart irretrievably, not that big, but too big to go in the bin, hard to justify spending ?16 on, but what else am I going to do? No car to take it to the tip.

If anyone else is organising a bulk collection I can add this too for a couple of quid, let me know!

[Rosetta]

Azalea Wrote:

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> James Barber Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > We fought against it, during the decision

> call-in

> > it was agree to consider exemptions for poor

> > families.

> > Before the service was free Southwark had lots

> of

> > fly tipping.

>

> What do you mean by consider exemptions for poor

> families? How would that work?

>

> There is/was so much fly tipping near me in the

> past year. The area on the corner of Coplestone

> Road and Oxenford street is particularly bad.

James? How does the exemption work?

[Earl Aelfheah]

it would be interesting to know whether this actually saves any money once the cost of Delong with fly tipping is taken into account. I can't imagine it will.

[Alex K]

James Barber Wrote:

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> We fought against it, during the decision call-in

> it was agree to consider exemptions for poor

> families.

> Before the service was free Southwark had lots of

> fly tipping.

And Southwark will have it again. -- James, a particular hot-spot for fly tipping is the car wash / car park area near Dulwich Hamlet Football Club. If it isn't a mattress it's a sofa. That sort of thing. -- Can you look into CCTV monitoring of the road leading toward the playing fields along the eastern wall of the grounds; of the car park / car wash; in short, kit and caboodle -- to nail the sons-of-guns who think they've found a safe spot to off-load? Thanks for whatever you can arrange.

[kibris]

Not only are we going to pay for bulk rubbish to be removed, now our C/tax will also go up in april

[annafb]

Also, they're really strict at the Old Kent Road dump re proving you live in Southwark, need to take id/utility bill with your address on....

[James Barber]

Hi annafb,

Southwark has a reciprocal arrangement with Lambeth Council so Southwark residents can also use the Lambeth recycling centre close to S.Croxted Road - http://www.wrwa.gov.uk/recycle/reuse-and-recycling-centres/lambeth-reuse-and-recycling-centre,-se27-lambeth-residents-in-cars-only.aspx but you will need to take along proof of address.

[boyohboy]

I requested a collection well before Christmas, and stumped up the ?16, but no sign of my items being removed. Lousy service...

[Callie]

They normally give you a day when they are coming, if they don't turn up, you should complain so they can look into it especially as you have paid.

[Rockets]

So ventured to get some bulky items collected today and have to say the system is totally useless. You go onto a site and "list" your 10 items but you are only able to select pre-described items from a list so it affords you no flexibility whatsoever to list the 10 things you want collected. After my previous experience with this "service" I approached with caution and lo and behold they turned up today but left a few of the items - no explanation why, just some of the items taken some not. They left a couple of suitcases, a child's scooter and an old mop and took all the big stuff - chest of drawers etc.

Have emailed them so await their response as to why they didn't finish the job I paid for......

[gabys1st]

Wish that they wd put a camera in our front garden. Some *********************** goes to extraordinary lengths to hide a bag with KFC wrappings metro and other odd bits which animals scatter, right up past car, in shrubbery corner next to house in Marmora Rd. There is a council rubbish bin across the road and house rubbish bins nearby easier to access.

We have contacted the council on several occasions who tell us someone will call us back - HUH. then the polics who say it is a council matter so now back to the council again.

NB Don't bother to count the asterisks - I didn't!

[Pam50]

Does anyone know how to contact this service?

Spent ages navigating the appalling website, filled out the form, paid the ?16.00 for elderly neighbour.

Supposed to hear within 24 hours. Three days later, no reply, no phone number and no response to email to Environmental services.

No wonder there is so much fly tipping.

[SpringTime]

Same problems here.

Took from 8th June till 15th August, several long-winded and fruitless phone calls dealing with ill-equipped and incompetent staff who appeared to change daily, and an email thread involving a mighty 29 exchanges, to get just one order through.

Southwark were very good though. They gave me my ?16 back - which took them only six weeks!

[James Barber]

Hi Pam50, SpringTime,

Please escalate such issues to a local councillor so we can look at the specifics and generic problem - that way we can try and solve both.

[Pam50]

Will do James, but in the meantime, does anyone have a contact number or email address for this service? Thanks, Pam