Visit from Housing Officer

Thank you, Shardovan.

As the housing officer is planning to visit once a month, Paul has said it works in our favour. As she had left with a list of outstanding jobs for the Repairs Team, it means that it should be easier to chase things up if we haven't heard anything before her next visit.

Thank you, Emmy. 

It's great that your great-aunt was treated with understanding, and that you were also able to pitch in and help her out.

Glad to hear they're being reasonable about this. Nice to have been assigned someone so aware of the need to be reasonable and collaborative, not just an inflexible jobsworth as you feared.

I'm glad ur visit went well. Nice to here people can be under standing in situation like this

When my great aunt couldnt do her garden they were really understanding and gave her a lot of time to get it sortedFirst time I ever did gardening leaves and bits of branch every where a piece even fell out my hair when I was home later LMAO we got it cleared during the winter when every thing was dead so it couldn't grow back

Thank you, Astrid. 

Yes, the housing officer really was lovely.

For years, I had dreams of how I wanted my garden to look. There was a time when it was heading in the right direction and was well within my grasp, but then it all went a bit pear-shaped. I've not completely given up hope of creating my dream garden though. 

Hi Sparkly, I wish my housing was like that. Your housing officer sounds so understanding. 

It is great that your son was able to do a bit of the garden to get started on it. 

I hope that your garden will turn into a lovely area to relax in. 

Thank you Interface.

The majority of my garden has been taken over by brambles, and oak trees that self-seed and spread like wildfire. The oak trees are perhaps more of a concern though. During lockdown, I'd had some trees felled because they were growing too close to my house, and squirrels were using them as a means of accessing my loft. 

As much as I like squirrels, I'd prefer them not to use my loft like a hotel, for fear of the damage they may cause.

Hello. That's great news. As others have said wait for the winter to set in, then everything will die back and it will be easier to get through your garden and there will be less because a lot will have died away.

Thank you Iain.

Depending upon how much we are able to tackle in-between collections, we may well resort to that (using bags).

I remember doing likewise some years ago after lopping the branches of some fir trees in my garden.

Sporadic Sparkly said:

Unfortunately, he was unable to do as much as he would have liked, due to our green waste bin getting full rather quickly.

Just a practical point - you can always cut it back, bag it up and leave it stacked in a corner outside.

This way it will shrink inside the bag (well, get limp and take up less space) so you can stuff more of it in the green waste bin when the collection time comes,

If there are going to be loads of bags you can always contact the council and see if they can do a collection of it - some councils will do this without charging.

It is good that your Housing Association were similarly understanding, Steven.

I'd actually allowed a tree to grow in my garden, until the tree was taller than my house(!) Luckily, my Housing Association were similarly understanding to your own, Sparks.  x

Thank you, Autonomistic. Yes, a little understanding can indeed go a long way.

Thank you, Roy. 

The housing officer is intending to visit once a month to check on how things are going with the garden clearance. Unless we have a particularly cold autumn, I'm hoping my son and I can make reasonable progress before our last green waste collection of the year in November.

It's good to hear the visit went well. Sometimes a little understanding can go a long way.

Hi, that’s really good news, if there’s too much greenery wait until you have had a couple of frosts, it soon dies back and creates less waste.