Will people be happy if HC covered bins, water etc ?

[Guns N Roses]

Its the other side of the street across the road, grassed the full length of the street, presumably the council own it, we don't

If you don't own it then why are you paying for it to be cut?

 

[roker]

To keep our street lookng decent.

 

[truthseeker]

That sounds like a lot of money roker.

How big is the grass strip, how many residents contribute, how many times is it cut, who decides how to hire whoever cuts it?

When I was young there was a green belt in our estate that the council refused to cut one year and the residents association got together and cut it themselves. There was a few hours work in it for 10 or 12 people - it was a large odd shaped field - not like what you describe. Its a possibility for you instead of the 100 per resident (which seems far too much for one strip of grass).

 

[Odea]

The road sweeper van passed my house yesterday cleaning the kerbside. (Dun Laoghaire Rathdown). One guy in van driving and one guy with brush supposed to be sweeping dirt from footpaths in to kerbside. Guy with brush not doing his job. Storm drains are completly clogged up. It would take him a minute to open drain and shovel out dirt so van could sweep it up or use the big suction hose on side of van to suck up dirt. These guys are not doing their job properly.

 

[roker]

Like the 2 council workers, one was digging holes in a row, and the other was following him filling the hole in again.
When asked by someone what they were doing, the answer was that the guy in between who puts the trees in the hole is off today.

 

[Shawady]

Water charges are going to be seperate to the household charge and it looks like we'll have to pay for the meters to be installed also, which could be 3 times the cost of the household charge.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/home-owners-to-pay-for-water-meters-190685.html