Unbelievable Waste of Resourses

[Glammanana]

All you ladies know how long hubby and I waited for the allocation of our new bungalow and how pleased we are with it,sadly not long after we moved in one of the neighbours passed away in hospital leaving another sort after prime position home for rent,this happened about one month ago and these past 3 days I have watched men employed by the HA going in and out emptying the property they have been arriving in 2 big open backed trucks and breaking up all the furniture that was inside the bungalow must have been overstacked with furniture as there have been at least 6 x tall chests of drawers and 4 wardrobes countless garden tools and mowers etc washing/drying/cooker/fridgefreezer etc all have been broken up and taken to the local skip and I can assure you they where all in good condition all the furniture was heavy pine and 2 x maroon leather sofa's & electric recliner chair surely they could have been offered to other tenants who are just starting off in their new homes rather than going to the tip its criminal in my opinion,I have decided to email the CEO of the HA on Monday and give him my thoughts and put it to him if they find a venue of sorts I would organise a referrell scheme for needy tenants a couple of times a week/month,see I told you I would use my retirement back in the field that I enjoy.

[Gemini]

Oh what a terrible waste Glamma
All those things which the previous tenants would have worked, saved for and taken care of, all discarded. As you say, they could have been offered to other tenants, or given to one of the charity furniture stores, or women's shelters, so many people would have wanted them I'm sure.

Your plan is a very good one.

[Clover]

That's absolutely shocking Glam .They're bound to have an excuse for this policy but there really is no sense behind it.Good luck taking on the CEO.

[Glammanana]

Oh Clover I do enjoy a challenge and from what I have learnt over the years CEO's do tend to be overgrown office juniors who thrive on other peoples idea's.

[Mimi]

It's not as if the housing association would have to put any effort into moving any furniture, or indeed cost them anything as many charities will turn up at the property with an appropriate sized van with appropriate 'man' power to put any unwanted items into the van . That has to be so much better tan destroying items and then sending them to landfill.

[Oma]

About a year after we moved into this house our neighbours husband died , and shortly after that my neighbour decided to give up her house and move closer to her DD , we are a mix of buyers and tenants and this house belonged to the council , my neighbour as it was a new build had bought real oak flooring for right through the house had beautiful modern lighting put in plus fitted wardrobes , new carpets in the two bedrooms one that didn't even have a bed in as it was spare so carpet unused along with various other things , two days after she moved out a van arrived and they ripped everything out and just threw it in this van , it was heart breaking a new build with everything expensive and new and they had no regards for it , .
The neighbour on the other side challenged the men about it and was told it was all for Health and Safety as if a new tenant was hurt with anything left in the house they were liable , now this I can understand in a way but a new tenant could have signed a disclaimer or they could have auctioned the lighting flooring etc off . H&S gone mad again .

[Nanto2girls]

That furniture could have set someone up in a house. A lot that didn't have much money,would have been so glad of it. It's sacrilege.

[Daisy]

Reading this thread, I'm alternating between being furious and close to tears. Apart from anything else, we can't go on wasting our planet's finite resources like this. Plus, as others have said, there are so many people in real need who would have been overjoyed to have these items. There's so much waste, and Glamm - all I can say is good for you - I hope you can get them to listen to you - you're offering a solution not giving them a problem if they can but see it!

My OH used to work in a bank and last night he was chatting to another retired bank employee about waste. Banks used to be built and fitted out with beautiful solid wood counters, panelling etc - often mahogany or rosewood. Then some bright spark decided they needed 'modernising' and all that expensive, beautiful wood was burnt, to be replaced by plastic which looked tatty within a year. OH and his friend had both rescued great big pieces of wood from the skip (with permission) and used it to make furniture, desks etc. One day OH rescued a clock from the skip (also with permission) and brought it home. It's sat on our sideboard ever since, but stopped working recently. The friend's hobby is clock making so he asked advice. The friend took it to a good clockmaker for us and yesterday it came back like new, and is good for another 100 years or so! It would have just been tossed away at the tip!

[Glammanana]

Oma if you remember the HA gave hubby and I the H&S reason for taking up the wooden flooring from our old apartment before we moved into this bungalow,along with the extra breakfast bar we had fitted and to arrange to have all the tiling taken off the walls in the bathroom and left with just one wall tiled next to the bath we had to remove other fitments as well as, all would have saved a new tenant lots of money a prospective tenant could have viewed it before we moved and made their own decission as it stands now the apartment has been stripped bare and it is still empty with no tenant and we got the offer of the bungalow in late March so all that rental income lost and all the fittings skipped totally disgraceful.