Builders rubbish increasingly being left on pavements and our roads

[Wil72]

Is anyone else getting fed up with builders leaving their rubbish on the pavement or even road outside the houses that they are working on?

Apart from being dangerous- bits of wood with nails sticking out, sheets of single glazed glass, old toilets & rubble bags filled with bricks- they are physically blocking the pavement. Anyone old with a walking stick, in a wheelchair or with young kids & a pram has to walk into the road to get past

If the house owners (who are aware that this has been left outside & clearly don't care- don't get their builders to remove it, is there anything else that can be done? Clearly they could pay someone with a van to come and collect it, or even take it to the tip themselves...

We have called the council to pick up stuff that has been fly tipped on corners in the past, but I don't see why our council tax should pay for someone elses home improvements

As well as being dangerous, it also looks really horrible...

[Chick]

Where abouts?

[KidKruger]

Builders near me have spent the last three weeks rinsing the cement buckets and tools down the nearest street drain, I fully expect a drain blockage when the weather gets wetter !

[mancity68]

Yep suffering both of those issues near me too. Fly tipping generally seems to be on the up.

[rachp]

Yes, I spoke to a builder on my road last week as there was barely room to get a small pushchair through, let alone a wheelchair. He looked at me like there was something wrong with me and told me he he would be moving it when he?d finished?and yes, flytipping is definitely increasing.

[MrsR]

Please report to Southwark Council:

https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/traffic-orders-licensing-strategies-and-regulation/obstructions-on-roads-and-pavements

[Wil72]

Thanks so much Mrs R- will email them now

[KidKruger]

To be fair, if a builder is blocking the pavement temporarily to complete a task it?s reasonable that he gets left to it - especially if he?s using heavy tools, machine tools, or materials that may splash, like cement and paint.

It?s often less hassle to cross the road with a pram than it is for a builder to stop his task, mind his tools, clear a path, then start all over.

Obvs pavements are a right of way, but sometimes an objective approach is needed rather than just obsessing on ?rights?, especially when it?s a temporary situation.

rachp Wrote:

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> Yes, I spoke to a builder on my road last week as

> there was barely room to get a small pushchair

> through, let alone a wheelchair. He looked at me

> like there was something wrong with me and told me

> he he would be moving it when he?d finished?and

> yes, flytipping is definitely increasing.

[Wil72]

Not temporary sadly- these have been blocking the pavement for 2 weeks now...

[rachp]

Maybe but it had been like that over a number of days and it didn?t take much effort to rearrange the various bags so they were closer to the edge of the pavement rather than strewn all over the place. If everyone starts taking the ?it doesn?t really matter? approach, the pavements become inaccessible for wheelchairs, visually impaired etc

KidKruger Wrote:

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> To be fair, if a builder is blocking the pavement

> temporarily to complete a task it?s reasonable

> that he gets left to it - especially if he?s using

> heavy tools, machine tools, or materials that may

> splash, like cement and paint.

> It?s often less hassle to cross the road with a

> pram than it is for a builder to stop his task,

> mind his tools, clear a path, then start all

> over.

> Obvs pavements are a right of way, but sometimes

> an objective approach is needed rather than just

> obsessing on ?rights?, especially when it?s a

> temporary situation.

>

> rachp Wrote:

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

> -----

> > Yes, I spoke to a builder on my road last week

> as

> > there was barely room to get a small pushchair

> > through, let alone a wheelchair. He looked at

> me

> > like there was something wrong with me and told

> me

> > he he would be moving it when he?d finished?and

> > yes, flytipping is definitely increasing.

[KidKruger]

Like I say, if Temporary, give them space.

World?s apart from ?it doesn?t matter? (I haven?t seen anyone use those words, only you), right ?

[rachp]

Yes, that is my choice of words that I would use to describe that mindset?

[Nigello]

You can report it here: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/street-care/fly-tipping

You don't have to fill in the name and address but be as detailed as you can (house number, post code, cross-road, etc.)

[Sue]

Someone in my road has had a large bag of sand standing in the road outside their house for weeks (possibly months, I can't remember when it first appeared).

At first I assumed this was to save a space for the arrival of a skip, or for builders' vehicles etc, but the bag of sand is never moved, so vehicles delivering or collecting materials from the house have to park alongside the bag of sand, blocking the road.

Meanwhile, nobody can park there.

Is that a) allowed and b) reasonable?

[bonaome]

A) No. B) No.

[ianr]

> Is that a) allowed

www.southwark.gov.uk/business/licences/roads-and-highway-licences/building-materials-licence

[Sue]

Hopefully they will see this and remove it.

[alex_b]

Sue Wrote:

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> Someone in my road has had a large bag of sand

> standing in the road outside their house for weeks

> (possibly months, I can't remember when it first

> appeared).

>

> At first I assumed this was to save a space for

> the arrival of a skip, or for builders' vehicles

> etc, but the bag of sand is never moved, so

> vehicles delivering or collecting materials from

> the house have to park alongside the bag of sand,

> blocking the road.

>

> Meanwhile, nobody can park there.

>

> Is that a) allowed and b) reasonable?

Report it to Southwark highways department and they?ll deal with it. We had a builder taking up over three parking spaces with a couple of skips and building material stored on the road. Southwark dealt with it really quickly.

[Sue]

alex_b Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

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

> -----

> > Someone in my road has had a large bag of sand

> > standing in the road outside their house for

> weeks

> > (possibly months, I can't remember when it

> first

> > appeared).

> >

> > At first I assumed this was to save a space for

> > the arrival of a skip, or for builders'

> vehicles

> > etc, but the bag of sand is never moved, so

> > vehicles delivering or collecting materials

> from

> > the house have to park alongside the bag of

> sand,

> > blocking the road.

> >

> > Meanwhile, nobody can park there.

> >

> > Is that a) allowed and b) reasonable?

>

> Report it to Southwark highways department and

> they?ll deal with it. We had a builder taking up

> over three parking spaces with a couple of skips

> and building material stored on the road.

> Southwark dealt with it really quickly.

I keep thinking surely they will remove it soon, but they don't.