Southbourne is Edwardian and interwar for the most part, which means chimneys in nearly every house and a lot of original fireplaces that have been reopened over the last twenty years. It is one of the parts of Bournemouth where we deliver most consistently, and almost all of it is bagged rather than tipped.
The reason is parking. The grid of roads between Southbourne Grove and the cliff is close to fully parked most of the day, and a tipped load needs somewhere off the road to land. Ton bags solve it neatly – craned off and set down on a drive or in a front garden in a couple of minutes rather than a lorry sitting in the road with a heap coming off it.
The other Southbourne factor is salt air and wind off the cliff. Wood stored outside here takes more of a battering than it does inland, and a stack that is only covered on top does noticeably better than one wrapped up. It is worth getting the storage right before you buy in quantity.