Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Dumped bed bases
This week it’s bed bases. Next week it’ll be mattresses again no doubt. In our road someone - maybe the tenants, more likely the landlord - has dumped four bed bases outside the house. Two are in the front garden and two are on the pavement. Those on the pavement have fallen over and are blocking half the pavement. Yesterday Veolia should have cleaned our street but somehow forgot so didn’t remove, or report, the problem. I did so yesterday but on the pavement they remain. I do not know what I find more depressing and infuriating - the landlord / tenants’ apathy, the council’s negligence or the other local residents’ apparent apathy. What, short of moving house, can I do?
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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"What can I do?" What you did - notified Veolia about the dumping so they can take it away next day or the day after.
Works for me, I notice and report random stuff being parked on the pavement near me though I don't like it.
As for cleaned the street the street sweepers can't immediately remove the bed bases ( !! ) though they are (I think) equipped to flag it up when they see it.
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This sounds so like my road I think we must both have reported the same thing. I flagged the problem through the website 10 days ago but one of the two bed bases was still on the pavement as I came past this evening. I must say that, in my experience, this is relatively unusual, as the previous frequent fly-tipping on a different site at the end of the road has usually been cleared within 48 hours of a report. It almost makes me wonder if Veolia are deliberately not clearing rubbish away when it's obvious where it came from (the house itself in this case) as punishment for not paying the new rubbish removal charge, but if they are being as Machiavellian as this, it's punishing the rest of us rather than the perpetrators themselves. I suggest a renewed onslaught on the website or a direct e-mail to Veolia (if their details are still accessible through the site) to try to get them into action; I'll have a go as soon as I have time.
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Permalink Reply by hhnrau on
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if you KNOW who the perpetrator is - and in this case if bed bases are in front garden AND street so it's pretty obvious it's the landlord, then take a photo and report it to ENFORCEMENT, where you're specifically reporting that property for flytipping. I regularly do this when i find flytipping which is clearly from specific addresses and Enforcement DO follow-up and issue fines. Even better if you can find the landlord's name/address - so you can make sure Enforcement contact them directly.
(just notifying 'dumped rubbish' only results in clear-up, but never gets to the heart of the problem)
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Permalink Reply by PaulG on
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Thanks hhnrau
I have found out that the owner is a company with an office in Finchley and the directors live in Stamford Hill. I was tempted on Wednesday to “deliver” the bed bases to one of their addresses but in the end decided to limit myself to moving the base that was lying down and blocking the pavement back onto the property. The other one is still standing on the pavement. I will report the landlords today for fly-tipping.
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Noting the enforcement info above, if useful the direct email address to report dumped rubbish is enquiries.haringey@veolia.com , and I find it helps to put the location and brief dumping details in the Subject field as well as in the body of the email.
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Permalink Reply by Katie K on
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The web link to report somebody for dumping rubbish is here: http://www.haringey.gov.uk/environment-and-waste/rubbish-and-recycl...
I have used it and it worked, I got a phone call a couple of days later from enforcment officer saying they were going round to the house I had reported. And I think the Our Haringey app also asks for details if you know who the dumper was.
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