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Hi Graeme I could not agree more.
Some years ago a guy who was doing some barn conversions dug a big hole in the back gardens and buried several lorry loads of rubbish instead of paying for it to be taken to a tip. A neighbour reported him to the local council and other authorities, resulting in him being prosecuted.
So, what was he prosecuted for?
what did he do with soil created from the hole made for rubbish dump? dig another hole and bury it?😂
Tax avoidance.
I presume he raised the ground level. Apparently the easiest prosecution to bring at the time was tax avoidance, as he had avoided paying the land fill tax by not sending the rubbish to a registered tip.
Many years ago a surveyor who worked for a council bought a farm and did a deal with a firm building a new road to sell them subsoil for building a new road embankment.
So a huge hole appeared on his farm and the council ordered him to fill the hole back in which had been dug without the councils approval, that was when he bought some skip lorries and skips.
By the time the fields looked like nothing had ever happened he was a very wealthy man and the farm had apparently paid for itself.
After 40+ years of site landscaping, I have seen all of the above.......and more! The biggest problems came from developers who call in 'the landscaper' as at the last minute and you just have to work 'with what you've got'. No other trade would put up with it!
One of the worst examples I saw was on a housing development. We were just packing up and heard a digger trundling round the corner, following a dumper. The digger promptly scooped out a hole in a 'to be' front garden of a half built house and the dumper tipped about 1/2 ton of wet concrete into the hole. All was filled in and off they went!
Things don't change, do they? I have landscaped many new sites. Housing, schools, retirement homes, industrial etc., and have seen all that you mention and more!
I think it is about time gardens came under building regs. All developers should leave the garden areas in a fit and reasonable state or stump up the cash to put them right.
The daft thing is that it's pretty much free to get rid of CLEAN hardcore. Just needs a little organisation and discipline on sites- not gonna happen.
The shit that passes for housing nowadays should all be banned.
I agree. I have one client that has had leaks in every room and another that has had to have the whole house repointed within a year. Another paid just short of £1m for his new build and has problems for over 2 years including the decorative stone chipping.
It will never change as there is just too much money to be made for the large construction companies.