Jamie Murray
Jamie Murray
2023-01-28
Quality fast and reliable service with a cracking bunch of lads definitely recommended
Bill Mitchell
Bill Mitchell
2021-09-14
Contracted this company to clear the flat of my deceased mother. Two young guys cleared EVERYTHING out of the rented property, including furniture, carpets, ornaments, white goods and food/household products, politely, efficiently, and respectfully. Excellent service.
Charles winter
Charles winter
2021-05-21
The guys from Northern House Clearance have just cleared a house for me in Scotland. The house was packed not only with a lifetimes worth of memories, but all the clutter that goes with it. Within 2 days it was emptied down to the floorboards. A great job from a good team of lads. Highly recommended.
Graeme hatton
Graeme hatton
2021-02-24
An excellent 5 star service. Firstly the compassion shown due to the circumstances which resulted in having to use their services, not just on the phone but by the team who arrived, on time, to perform the job. Above all a friendly attitude goes a long way in stressful times. Professional from the start to the end of the day and due to the amount of clutter a second day was needed. I could not believe how much was cleared in just one day, it was as if the clutter had it's own clutter to clear. Hope that I never need to use them again, but if I have to clear another property they will be the only people that I call. Highly recommend them. G.Hatton. Cheshire.
Lorna Hamilton
Lorna Hamilton
2021-02-05
Fantastic service. Highly recommend. The team was so helpful.
Richard Foster
Richard Foster
2020-11-26
The guys from Northern house clearing cleared my deceased brothers house which was in a state. They were very discrete and great guys very understanding at such a sad time. Great job guys thank you.
Xiu Yun Chen
Xiu Yun Chen
2020-11-25
This is a good company would highly recommend these guys. Very efficent and helpful.
Laura
Laura
2020-11-05
Highly recommended. From my initial enquiry I found them to be efficient and professional and was given an immediate quote. On the day the guys arrived promptly and were friendly, helpful and thorough. I would not hesitate to use this company again and I would recommend to others. I felt in good hands and I, m very happy with the service I received.
Ruth Lawrence
Ruth Lawrence
2020-08-22
The team arrived bang on time and began work immediately. They continued for five solid days and completed the entire clearance of my late uncles house, which was a case of extreme hoarding over many decades. They even removed carpets, curtains and swept up so the house was ready for sale. They were exeptionally hard working, polite and charged a reasonable price for this incredibly difficult job. Terrific service, absolutely recommended.

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The 20% increase in license fees for most house clearance Sunderland recycling sites is unpopular to say the least. Effectively a tax on running a house clearance business in the Sunderland area, like all taxes it has to be paid or you risk prosecution.

The licence charges are not only relatively new, but have been raised by more than the rate of inflation every year since they were introduced. This time by more than five times inflation. Since the fees were first introduced in 1994, they have risen by 75% and in some cases doubled. Why the fees? To fund the Environment Agency, who regulate the waste management industry & house clearance services in Sunderland amongst many other functions.

The Agency hopes ultimately to be self-financing, so it has the privilege of interpreting the law, setting the licence fees, collecting the money and prosecuting those who don’t cough up. By all accounts the Agency seems to be keener on collecting the cash from the law-abiding than chasing house clearance companies operating in the Sunderland area who don’t even bother to register.

There is something quite unusual in the whole set-up. If you compare the Environment Agency with other official tax-collecting agencies (Inland Revenue, Customs & Excise to name a few), it has the distinction of setting its own tax levels and using the funds raised to pay its own costs. It is effectively independent of Government. In this great democracy of ours, its officials are unelected and to the outside world appear to be unaccountable, despite the Agency’s Consumer Charter.

If the Chancellor makes a mess of a budget then he faces the sack, or losing the next election. As he is accountable, he is unlikely to impose a 20% tax rise on the electorate. In fact in the budget the Chancellor claimed to be reducing the burden of taxation on small to medium sized businesses. Surely most house clearance are in this category? Since the Agency started operating, we have witnessed a not so hidden agenda of targeting the recycling & house clearance industry. Licence fees for recycling house clearance waste especially here in Sunderland have just risen by 20% yet charges for radioactive substance regulations have risen by only 8%, and those for Discharge licences by 9.6%. Even to the casual observer, this is unfair.

The Agency justifies its decision by saying that it needs more money to fund its enforcement of the Waste Management Regulations i.e. making those house clearance companies in Sunderland who never bothered to register comply with the law. The Agency’s last annual report showed that the average licensed house clearance company in Sunderland is inspected or visited once a month. Surely, so many visits to house clearance companies abiding by the regulations are unnecessary.

If Agency officials visited licensed house clearance company headquaters less often, they would have more resources to enforce the Regulations on those in the house clearance business who blatantly flout the laws. At the very least this would create an even playing field for all house clearers in Sunderland & across the UK. Why should those breaking the law enjoy a commercial advantage over those who comply and shoulder the added expense?

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