Bunch of Clowns!

[Roland]

I see the clowns at Staffordshire County Council are at it again!

As from 1st November 2016 we are going to be charged to take some stuff to the tip, £3/bag for soil & rubble, £4/bag for plasterboard and £4 per tyre.

All this will do is encourage more people to fly tip their rubbish which will cost more to clear up than they take at the tip!

 

[PeterD]

Its pretty widereaching.

Soil/rubble

Including bricks, breeze blocks, concrete, drainage pipes (ceramic/porcelain), gravel, hardcore, paving slabs, rubble, sand, sanitary ware (ceramic/porcelain toilets, bidets, sinks, shower trays, pipes, etc), soil, slates/slabs, stones, tarmac, tiles (ceramic, porcelain, floor, roof, wall) and turf.

 

[Gramaisc]

Excellent idea - how much are they taking off the Council Tax to allow for this reduced service?

 

[Feed The Goat]

I am surprised it has taken SCC this long to catch up. I am used to having to pay :

https://new.devon.gov.uk/wasteandrecycling/recycling-centres/chargeable-waste

The council say that they run a household recycling facility and so called construction waste is outside their responsibility.

So it is pay the council, pay for a private skip / dumpy bag or chuck in a layby.

I think most of the country will be playing by these rules by 2018.

 

[John Marwood]

Clowns who voted in Clowns

Conservative Councillors trying to cope with cuts implemented by the Conservative Ministers they themselves voted in

You could make it up

But you don't actually have to

 

[Radioactive Wolf]

I know, right? If only we had a Labour administration, the Magic Money Tree would surely fruit anew.

 

[alphagamma]

They probably need the money to give the CEO a well-deserved raise. It must be a struggle to survive on a third of a million quid a year.

 

[c0tt0nt0p]

https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/en...Disposal-Charges-for-non-household-waste.aspx

 

[proactive]

Excellent idea - how much are they taking off the Council Tax to allow for this reduced service?

https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/environment/rubbishwasteandrecycling/recyclingcentres/FAQ/Q002.aspx

Council tax covers the cost of collecting, recycling and disposing of household waste. Charges will only be made for those wastes not classified as household waste and therefore not covered by the council tax.

 

[Gramaisc]

https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/environment/rubbishwasteandrecycling/recyclingcentres/FAQ/Q002.aspx

Council tax covers the cost of collecting, recycling and disposing of household waste. Charges will only be made for those wastes not classified as household waste and therefore not covered by the council tax.

So, who was paying for it before?

 

[proactive]

So, who was paying for it before?

Now you're just being silly...

 

[ATJ]

I'm surprised the council has been taking construction waste for free up to now to be honest.

 

[Steve_b]

Coming to a Stafford Country lane soon

http://www.itv.com/news/central/2016-10-17/huge-fly-tip-takes-council-two-days-to-clear/

 

[kyoto49]

It's started already . Noticed a whole load of builders/construction waste in the alley that goes from the Stone Road, immediately prior to where Crispins used to be, through to Woodlands Road by the garages.

 

[Goldilox]

I'm surprised the council has been taking construction waste for free up to now to be honest.

There were a load of tricky-to-enforce rules that it had to be from DIY & couldn't be from commercial work, couldn't exceed two trips a day or x trips a week & couldn't arrive in a van, which I'm sure many builders managed to get round & many homeowners fell foul of.

 

[kyoto49]

There were a load of tricky-to-enforce rules that it had to be from DIY & couldn't be from commercial work, couldn't exceed two trips a day or x trips a week & couldn't arrive in a van, which I'm sure many builders managed to get round & many homeowners fell foul of.

We've dropped stuff off from a house clearance in a van a couple of times and never been challenged.

 

[Jonah]

When I have visited the tip with household waste in a sign written van, I have been asked what I am disposing off.

 

[Goldilox]

I may have got the wrong end of the stick re vans, but a friend of mine who undertook a major house renovation a few years back was pulled up by the staff because they thought he might be running a building operation. I'm sure they must have a measure of discretion if you turn up in a plumber's van but are only getting rid of an old armchair.

 

[John Marwood]

When I have visited the tip with household waste in a sign written van, I have been asked what I am disposing off.

That's happened to me twice

Each time I've said, "The dead bodies of Cabinet Ministers,"and each time I've been waved through

 

[Jonah]

That's happened to me twice

Each time I've said, "The dead bodies of Cabinet Ministers,"and each time I've been waved through

I took "The John Marwood Book of Jokes".



The site workers stood and applauded me...