Bins

Hippie20, I do sympathies with you ? I also have spent money on the front of my house. I live in a very strong rental area and the transience of people is high. I currently have a neighbour who puts her 3 wheelie bins in the road as if to reserve a parking space, she doesn’t even have a car!!

Meaux

I live in a small village with narrow paths etc. Our houses are terraced and there is no access to the rear of our properties. We all store our bins as discreetly as we can in our front gardens. My neighbours are a mix of working, retired and very elderly and, whereas we all put our own bins out, once the bin men have been the first one out normally puts the bins back for all of us. Quite often it is me, but in return, when I go away for a few days, my neighbours put my bins out for me and then back again after emptying. It all works unofficially and amicably. Maybe if your neighbour works full time their focus is elsewhere and not on the bins. It would only take seconds to pop their bins back for them and might be the spark for a nice neighbourly friendship. I hope it all works out well for you x

Much the same as here, Meaux. We all muddle along and help one another out. We're at the end of a terrace where boxes and bags from several houses have to be left, and sometimes they can be there two or three days if the recycling team miss us. We see it as a small price to pay for getting our stuff picked up - in some countries we'd be having to take it ourselves to collection points.

Absolute cheek. Report her !

Here in Wales we are not allowed to leave our bags/bins outside until after 6pm the night before collection. As others have said please check with your council rules. If allowed to leave outside then move them to their frontage - and if they don't get the message ask them why they are leaving their bins outside your front?

My council insist that all bins are moved to the end of my lane on bin day unfortunately that means as my house is at the end they are all piled there and if the bin men can’t gain access the bins can lie there for sometimes a week!!! Most annoying to me, I have rang and complained several times but to no avail. Even when they are eventually emptied some considerate households STILL don’t take them back….makes me want to move home!!!!!

I would just put them outside her property or into her garden if that‘s possible. It will look like a friendly neighbourly thing to do and maybe she will take the hint. I can understand it’s annoying, but there is so much else to worry about these days that I don’t think it’s worth falling out about.
I am trying to convince myself of that regarding the huge camper van my next door neighbours have taken to parking outside my front window blocking out the light (we live in a terrace with unrestricted parking).

Our bin men just leave emptied bins sort of ‘near’ where they should be. Every Monday when I take mine in, I put the bins of my neighbours on both sides on their doorsteps. I don’t know if they know (it’s after they have gone to work) but at least they’re not blocking my driveway, or standing on my garden.

I think you just have to move your neighbour’s bins Hippie20.

Bins on public highway/footway are only allowed (tolerated) by the highway authority on 'bin day' otherwise they are an obstruction of the highway. It is more of a problem if the bins are 'parked' on other private land which would need permission of landowner. Have a word with your council to check the status of the land. However it maybe a difficult one to broach if your new neighbour is not community minded. If it's not been going on too long, I would offer to put her bin back in the right place when doing my own. Hopefully after a few weeks the neighbour will then do it herself.

Where did your previous neighbours store their bins? I would return them to wherever that was so, presumably, not blocking the pavement, which keeps you out of trouble, and maybe identifies an area she had not thought of.

Yes I agree - the binmen often leave our bins all over the place - also the neighbours bins - the silver food pod is just chucked on its side - these bins end up anywhere!! Most of us manage to get them sorted! Check first then have a word with your neighbour- not nice to have to look at the bins all day every day. Good luck

Wheel the bins outside her house every time they get left outside yours. She will soon get the message.
No you're not being unreasonable.

Thoughtless - also annoying is when visitors to neighbours always park outside our house, just in case the neighbours are going out. They are not likely to when the visitors have just arrived. Park outside the house you’re visiting.

Put them in front of her own house then report her for blocking the pavement.Where l live you are not allowed to leave them on the pavement.

Could you move them outside her house?

Once you have put them back on her property set them on fire!...just kidding this would annoy me so much.
Is she the one leaving them in front of your garden or is that where the binmen are leaving them and she can’t be bothered to move them onto hers
Just watch what happens next bin day maybe you can catch her in the act and then have a word

Hello - just a question-
is your neighbour PUTTING the bins outside your house or are the "bin people" just moving them along as they empty them?

Our bins are quite often left in front of our next door neighbour's house (next to theirs) after being emptied and I have to bring them back.

Is it possible that the truck stops outside your house and the refuse collectors don't drag them back to hers?

Once she can't see them she's likely to forget to move them.

Yes - call the local council - this is a public health hazard: people may feel they can dump things in the bins as they are on a pavement (including dog poo), the fact that they are on the pavement sends a signal to would-be burglars that people may be out at work and not there to bring their bins in after collection.

Any news?

Not AIBU at all- I would not put up with that either. Is it because their drive is full of cars?

Mine does the same but I move them however his whole garden is a tip . His garage door is always open because it is broken and ther garage is full of junk . There is nobody to complain to if the propery is their own .

No OP you are not being unreasonable but sounds like you have just landed yourself yet another inconsiderate human being who does not give a flying xxxx about her neighbours. I have a neighbour who as soon as they moved in, thought it perfectly OK to let his dog wander about and come into my drive and poo. I have my own dogs and on the 20th occasion of coming home to find a giant turd (though on each of the previous occasions one of us had knocked on their door to tell them about yet another mess) he stormed into my drive and shouted " your drive is a xxxxxxx dog toilet anyway, if you want to keep my dog out, put up a xxxxxxx fence!!!" Needless to say, he left us no option but to call the dog warden. He then told other neighbours about it and none of them has spoken to us since. I can't wait to get out of here and live on the moon !!! These days many people are just so ignorant and full of their own self importance. Sick of it!! OP... you need to say something or contact the council. She will just keep doing it otherwise

I live in a small village with narrow paths etc. Our houses are terraced and there is no access to the rear of our properties. We all store our bins as discreetly as we can in our front gardens. My neighbours are a mix of working, retired and very elderly and, whereas we all put our own bins out, once the bin men have been the first one out normally puts the bins back for all of us. Quite often it is me, but in return, when I go away for a few days, my neighbours put my bins out for me and then back again after emptying. It all works unofficially and amicably. Maybe if your neighbour works full time their focus is elsewhere and not on the bins. It would only take seconds to pop their bins back for them and might be the spark for a nice neighbourly friendship. I hope it all works out well for you x

They are right Midwife. But still selfish and inconsiderate. I certainly wouldn't do it. And I wouldn't be friendly with someone who treated me like that.
Re bin issue. Hippie Why are they putting bins in front of your house and not their own?

They are right, I’m afraid Midwifebi6 . The road outside your house does not belong to you. Why can’t they park on the road outside their own house? I hate it when people don’t consider the effect of their actions on others, wheelie bins included.

Just ask her to put the bin for her house back at her house after it has been emptied. I wouldn't put my bin into someone else's garden. The only way that could happen is if there is shared access for more than one house, even then there is usually an area set aside for bins. Some people are just lazy by nature, not gardeners so don't notice a well tended patch, lots of reasons.

move them outside her property then ask her not to put them outside yours as its attracting flys