Garden Waste

[jowwy]

They could easily break it down over a couple of 'green waste' collections. £45 an hour for gardening is steep. £25 max ?

maybe it was in that there larrrrndon place, were everything is triple the price to the rest of the world.....

not only that the person is a long time member of a gardening forum that i use for help lol

 

[PaulSB]

They could easily break it down over a couple of 'green waste' collections. £45 an hour for gardening is steep. £25 max ?

Really? How much would you expect a plumber or electrician to charge? Probably £50 for a call out.

A professional gardener will have a great deal of knowledge and experience. It should be paid for.

 

[Dave7]

Does your local authority collect it for free?? do you take it yourself to the dump?? or do you pay to have it removed as part of your gardening service??

if the latter, why??

We have to pay £35 per year for the green bin (garden waste) and (get this!!!) If you pay by phone its an extra £5 admin charge.
Its wrong imo as we already pay council charges.
Spring just gone their computer was playing up so I had to pay by phone and the b*stards still charged me the £5.
We have quite large gardens and the green bin is jammed full so taking it to the dump is not feasible.

 

[Time Waster]

Free collection fortnightly. Green bin. We have one that gets filled but others have two. Need more. We're clearing a large garden that can with our new house. We're not through the big clear up.

We've just had the last collection of the year until February. We ran out of time and bins so we still have a garden of leaves and debris. We have 300 plus litre sacks and an old banger we only use as a skip car. It takes 3 bags plus tree trunks and branches in the gaps. We'll be doing those trips all winter when we have time.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

which is why i wouldnt pay for the removal......would break it all down and get the council to remove it, as part of my council tax service

Our Council will no longer (from early next year) provide this service without an annual fee.

 

[Dave7]

They could easily break it down over a couple of 'green waste' collections. £45 an hour for gardening is steep. £25 max ?

We have 2 gardeners that come once a fortnight. They work very hard. Charge for them is £35 per hour so reasonable.

 

[jowwy]

Really? How much would you expect a plumber or electrician to charge? Probably £50 for a call out.

A professional gardener will have a great deal of knowledge and experience. It should be paid for.

we just talking grass cutting and hedge trimming, not exactly needing a pro for that

 

[jowwy]

Our Council will no longer (from early next year) provide this service without an annual fee.

we pay an annual fee - its called council tax

 

[Bonefish Blues]

we pay an annual fee - its called council tax

Rather obviously.

So do I.

This will no longer be included in the services we receive for payment of CT.

ETA
It's presumably a Statutory Service (I guess) but can be funded separately to the CT.

ETFA
But very short-sighted and counter to the prevailing ethos of the times. Councils have a Statutory Duty to clear fly-tipping. It won't take much to more than counterbalance the revenue gained by charging punters for green waste collection.

 

[winjim]

personally - i would get a quote without removal and break it all down myself and save a chunk of money......one thing i aint paying for is something to be removed, that i already pay for in my council tax.....

Depends how much you value your time I suppose. We needed a day's annual leave and woodchipper hire so that's a cost in both time and money.

 

[Kingfisher101]

we get ours collected for free.......

my query was due to someone paying for garden work, trim bushes, trim some over hanging branches from neighbours garden and cut the grass and then on top pay for the removal of said garden waste.....so in all it cost £180 for 4hrs ( 1 person )........£45 an hour, to which they said was a bargain

I think that's o.k. I had a massive holly bush taken up off my meadow, taken away and the stump ground out.Also 5 stumps of shrubs cut down and ground out, a big lilac trimmed and shaped and all the stuff taken away for £150. I was quoted previously £250-£300 plus vat by another company. I strimmed my own meadow for £45.00 which was hire if the strimmer and put the clippings in the brown bin and the neighbours.
We get the brown bin collected for free but you cant put any soil in it or big trees cuttings.They wouldn't take that holly bush for example.

 

[All uphill]

We have two composters and a big compost heap; logs and branches go on a pile.

Sloworms love the compost heap, insects and spiders love the log pile, and the birds love the insects. We get loads of lovely compost and enjoy watching the birds.

 

[jowwy]

I think that's o.k. I had a massive holly bush taken up off my meadow, taken away and the stump ground out.Also 5 stumps of shrubs cut down and ground out, a big lilac trimmed and shaped and all the stuff taken away for £150. I was quoted previously £250-£300 plus vat by another company. I strimmed my own meadow for £45.00 which was hire if the strimmer and put the clippings in the brown bin and the neighbours.
We get the brown bin collected for free but you cant put any soil in it or big trees cuttings.They wouldn't take that holly bush for example.

i cut a huge bush down and then cut all the long branches into shorter ones to fit in the bag, took me weekend in the sunshine..........and for free

 

[PaulSB]

we pay an annual fee - its called council tax

There are two points about this. In a decade when local authority funding has had to become more focused the LAs have to prioritise spending.

Secondly why should someone without a garden subsidise removal of your garden waste. I pay £35pa for 25 collections. Anyone who doesn't live next door to the LA recycling centre couldn't do it for less.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

There are two points about this. In a decade when local authority funding has had to become more focused the LAs have to prioritise spending.

Secondly why should someone without a garden subsidise removal of your garden waste. I pay £35pa for 25 collections. Anyone who doesn't live next door to the LA recycling centre couldn't do it for less.

I didn't used to have kids. I used to pony up for schools. There's a level at which it's a civic amenity that benefits all.