Council Cutbacks.

[Kidorry]

Once again our caring council are stopping services to the old, disabled and vulnerable by ceasing to offer them a gardening service. But in their kindness they have supplied them with a list of garden services that they can contact if they want to pay for their garden to be kept tidy.

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Kidorry said:

Once again our caring council are stopping services to the old, disabled and vulnerable by ceasing to offer them a gardening service. But in their kindness they have supplied them with a list of garden services that they can contact if they want to pay for their garden to be kept tidy.

The councillors should be made to go outside and tend any flowers and greenery  in the town hall area.

They would probably disappear within a week

The plants, not the councillors.   Mind you disappearing councillors would be better.

 

 

[carosio]

Many of the Council-owned properties with (able-bodied tenants) wouldn't be too concerned about that, they've already re-wilded their front (and back) gardens plus an array of tin cans and old bicycle frames.

Edited March 4, 2023 by carosio

[XPertByExperien]

I live in an SYHA Flat in S3, I've not seen anyone doing the back Garden for years.

 

More to the point, we have a meeting with social services next week, annual review apparently, some Foreign sounding bloke with bad English rang me on the mobile on Tuesday to arrange it.

 

I already know they'll be there all of half an hour if that, apparently they want to discuss the hours and what we're using them for?

 

I'm assuming Laura's told them about how we're cutting down to 4 local and out of Town comic cons per year... I'm attending the second of the year at Magna next Sunday.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 4, 2023 by XPertByExperien
More detail and a small rant

[Kidorry]

I always thought it was a council requirement that you kept your gardens in a reasonable state.

[XPertByExperien]

2 minutes ago, Kidorry said:

I always thought it was a council requirement that you kept your gardens in a reasonable state.

It is, but what they don't get is that some disabled tenants physically can't cut grass and that, so they need a Gardener to do it! 

 

 

[Kidorry]

I was refering to the people that are able to do the gardens and prefer to leave them like jungles. And it is not only council tenents who neglect their gardens.

[carosio]

28 minutes ago, Kidorry said:

I was refering to the people that are able to do the gardens and prefer to leave them like jungles. And it is not only council tenents who neglect their gardens.

Yes, it's also private tenanted properties that are amongst the "culprits". One of my neighbours whose now 86 still tends his back lawn and Apple trees on his 3-bed council property, although he has had the aforementioned assistance from the council to help clear his frontage of weeds.

 

A friend was one of the first to live on the then new "Tillotson" Council development (opposite) Heeley Church on Gleadless Rd approx 1982 until 1991 and to the rear was a green space, a childen's play area and some lock-up sheds which contained Council gardening equipment. I remember seeing the gardeners regularly at work cutting grass etc around the small estate however I'm not sure how far they ventured to other areas in the locality, but at the time this new development was regarded by the Council as a "showpiece" so I believe they concentrated resources there while other areas got next to zilch. If anyone can add to that I would be interested.