I am hoping one of you very intelligent forumites could help me resolve an argument that I am currently having with the Borough Council.
The issue first arose when all of the residents in my street were sent a fairly snotty letter from the B C informing us that if we didnt maintain the hedges in our rear entry to our properties he would insist that the Bin lorries no longer used the entry when collecting our bins meaning that we would have to take our bins to the end of the entry.
I live near to the end of the road so i do this anyway so this is not a problem for me, however it will be a problem for some of the more elderly neighbours. However this is not my actual gripe. My argument with the council is the fact that these hedges are not within the entry but behind the entry.
The entry is enclosed by our rear boundary fences and a metal fence on the oposite side of the entry, behind this metal fence is where the hedges are located on a small narrow strip of land approximately a metre wide that covers the full length of the entry. Behind this strip of land is the rear boundary fence for the new houses built on the crossings (the former GEC site).
At first the BC insisted that these hedges were on our land - which I have now proved otherwise through sending them a number of pictures and insisting that he actually made a site visit rather than writing letters to the residents. However he now informs me that he has wrote to the house builder of the crossings, Persimmon homes who have assured him that the land does not belong to them. Which frankly I do not believe. I cant imagine for one second a house builder buying a piece of land but then not purchasing the bit of land directly on the boundary.
Anyway to cut a long story short the BC are now insisting that they are not prepared to maintain the hedges because the entry is not adopted, some of us residents have tried to maintain the hedge as best as possible but due to the height it is difficult and therefore the BC is insisting that Bins are now collected at the end of the entry.
I find the situation completely farcical becuase we as residents are the innocent party in this yet we are being penalised because of BC incompetence and the developers dismissive attitude.
Any help would be very much appreciated. I have attached picture.