28 clearances have landed in Dorset postcodes. Dorset is retirement country and the work reflects it: long occupancies, full lofts, and a great many clearances instructed after a bereavement by a family who live somewhere else entirely.
The conurbation and the rest
Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch are one continuous town of flats and bungalows, and they behave like a city — parking restrictions, shared entrances, lifts that will not take a wardrobe. A two-bedroom flat on the second floor of a 1960s block is a slower job than a three-bedroom house with a drive, and we would rather say so when you ring.
Inland — Dorchester, Blandford, Sherborne, Shaftesbury — the properties are older and larger, often with outbuildings, and the lanes are narrow. Bridport and the west of the county are a longer run and get planned as trips.
What happens to the contents
Loads go through permitted transfer stations: W&S Recycling on Kennington Road, BH17 0GF; The Waste Group at Hines Pitt, Puddletown Road, BH20 6AE; Viridor at Trigon, near Bere Regis, BH20 7PA; Southern Commercial Recycling at Canford, BH21 3BW.
Not household recycling centres — those take residents' own waste. Our waste carrier registration is CBDU419679 and the transfer notes come back from every load, which executors regularly ask for and should.
What we cover
Pages below run across BH, DT and the SP and BA districts inside the county.