Ponds
Water features
Garden furniture
This charge will only be present where a scheme has a pod or water feature of garden furniture that requires maintenance. We do not currently have any schemes that would attract this charge.
Aquatics and garden features and furniture
Communal cleaning
Cleaning of communal areas
Cleaning of communal windows and doors
Specialist cleaning e.g., bodily fluid events
Carpet shampooing
The weekly cleaning of communal areas such as Common Rooms / Lounges, staircases, corridors and hallways. This will include sweeping and vacuuming of carpets, carpet shampooing, and the cleaning of windows to communal areas. Cleaning of communal kitchens and laundry rooms.
Garden maintenance
Grass cutting
Flower beds
Shrubs and hedge maintenance
Tree maintenance
Garden maintenance charges apply to schemes and buildings where the residents enjoy and have use of gardens which only they have free and open access to, so they are by all intense private to them. These are likely to be sheltered housing schemes and blocks of flats which share communal gardens. All aspects of gardening are included from grass cutting, flower bed planning, hedge and shrub maintenance and works like the treatment of paths and hard standings and water during dry weather.
Refuse Collection Facilities
Wheelie bin hire charges
Waste collection services
We do not get charged for the supply of wheelie bins and the regular roadside collection as this is funded through Council Tax. Additional services may attract additional charges.
Cleaning of bins and storage areas
Where a site has a bin store from time to time that may need to be cleared and deep cleaned. This cost is not covered by caretaking or garden maintenance services.
Bulk refuse collection
See Open Space Charges.
Window cleaning - ground floor
Window cleaning - ground floor
Where residents as a collective request that arrangements are made to clean windows to their properties. This is more likely to take place in sheltered and supported accommodation and to buildings that by their design residents or normal window cleaners are unable to clean windows.
Window cleaning - higher levels
Window cleaning - higher levels
As above but for all windows above ground floor. The reason that window cleaning is separated is that the regulations for Housing Benefit and Universal credit separate out the location of windows and when the costs are eligible to be covered as a housing cost.