Keeping it tidy

You do not have to have an award winning garden, but your tenancy conditions do require you to keep your garden tidy.

Help with gardening

Spade Aid

We run a scheme called Spade Aid, where together with pupils from Ashfield School to help tenants who are having difficulty maintaining their garden and have no other help available.

 Who can apply for Spade Aid

 Spade Aid application form

 Spade Aid movie 

 

Hedge cutting service

This service is aimed at those tenants who cannot cut trees, hedges or bushes themselves and have no other help available.

 More about the hedge cutting service 

Skips

You can get together as a group of three or more tenants can make a request for a free skip by applying in writing to your Housing Management Advisor. You must have enough rubbish or garden waste to make effective use of the skip, and each rent account must be clear.

 Ashfield Homes - Office addresses and contacts

Collection of bulky items

Ashfield District Council will collect bulky items for a small charge:

• 1 item                    7.50 + VAT
• 2-3 items              15.00 + VAT
• four to six items    25.00 + VAT

A quotation can be supplied for collecting more than 6 items.

If you have a Passport to Ashfield Services (PASS) card (which will cost £2.35 and can be obtained from any Council office, if you are in receipt of certain welfare benefits), you will get a  50% discount. Phone 01623 457922 for more details, or visit any Ashfield District Council Office.

Garden competition

Every summer we run a competition to seek out the best tenants gardens in Ashfield.  See the events album page, for the current winners.  Watch our news pages for the next competition.

 Events album - garden competition winners

Enforcement

Ashfield Homes will provide help and support to people who are unable to maintain their gardens, but will take action against any tenants who consistently fail to maintain their gardens to an acceptable standard, or accept help to do so. Untidy gardens detract from the appearance and surrounding environment of Ashfields estates.

Ashfield Homes can apply to the County Court for an injunction against tenants who have breached the above terms of their tenancy agreement and who have not maintained their garden to an acceptable standard following visits and warnings from us. An injunction can force someone to comply with the terms of their tenancy agreement and improve the condition of their garden within a certain time scale. Please click here for more information on injunctions.