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Harassment by residents committee

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    #62
    100200 shih
    Registered Users Posts: 169 ✭✭100200 shih


    A free & easy way is to contact your community guard. Every were has one, they will speak to the guy & inform them on what they are doing is not legal.


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    #63
    kieran.
    Registered Users Posts: 1,174 ✭✭✭kieran.


    ^^

    Excellent Advice here:D


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    #64
    A2LUE42
    Registered Users Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭A2LUE42


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    Not the front lawns of houses they don't. The OPs point is about press-ganging people into keeping their own curtilage tidy.

    In some counties the councils do not cut the grass in the communal areas. Management committees should have been put in place as part of the planning/building, but were not. As a result the residents have had to take this on board and try and raise the funds from the residents to pay for it. This method should result in far lower costs, as it should be in the interest of all the residents to get the best price possible.

    In the OP's case, the committee have decided to cut both the public areas and the private front lawns, which seems very strange for two main reasons.

    1. Cost - not best prices and increasing areas being cut for no reason other than because the contractor wants to.
    2. Legality - entering peoples private property without permission.


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    #65
    Paulw
    Registered Users Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    LFC Murphy wrote: »
    As chair of our association I have to point out that this is no longer the case..... councils will only maintain lights, roads, sewer and lights... The grass is the residents responsibility.

    We lobbied enough of our local councillors and TDs, and the council then came and started cutting our park, and have do so three or four times a year ever since. When we started, they went on and on about how it's not the responsibility of the council, etc, etc, but we continued to call, write, email and meet with the counsillors until they decided it would be easier to do the work than to continue dealing with us. :D

    Especially near elections, it's good to bring people power to work. If you have enough people getting together then you can get the council to do it.


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    #66
    Boom__Boom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭Boom__Boom


    €350 *60 houses is €21,000. That's a serious chunk of cash.

    Are any common areas being cut/cared for?

    The notion that a grass-cutting company would only accept €21 grand a year if they were allowed to cut all the lawns in the estate strikes me as ludicrous. As someone said earlier this strikes me as the sort of deal that would be extremely convenient for an absentee landlord.

    If the lawn is your property then the company have to have you permission to enter. Otherwise they are trespassing.


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