I have just made myself very popular with a local social housing company: I’ve brought to their attention, for the second time in about the last ten years, the miserable condition of a tiny strip of land at the end of one of their roads. It’s no more than 3m by 2, and has a grassy bank and small trees, all planted by Nature. In spring the bank has primroses all over it, except that’s not been so obvious since people started using it as a rubbish tip. It used to be OK, and so pretty. I’ve come to realise there’s some obscure psychological reason for people going out of their way to screw up bits of natural terrain, so what can the housing company do? I’ve asked them why they don’t just check the surroundings of their properties every so often and give them a quick clean-up. 🌸 😢

  • FatLegTed@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve wondered this about lots of new builds and their areas like this. Developers are dead keen when it comes to selling, give it six months and anything that isn’t in front of the house is left to fend for itself.

    • AngstyPony@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I hadn’t thought of it that way. I’m sure that’s part of it. And it’s a similar story here, with reduced numbers of waste-bins. I was waitng at a bus-stop yesterday - for quite a long time 😒 - that is, unsurprisingly, a rubbish hot-spot. The council removed the bin a couple of years ago. Garbage is flung into the bushes here too. But yesterday there was a small bird of prey hunting there. Well that was a treat, but seeing him fishing about amongst all the trash irked me all the more. By the way, the company I emailed about the guff by their houses got back to me and denied having any connection to that street, so then I reported it to the council as fly-tipping. Neverending story.