Football in front garden and council bins beside neighbours window

[Nyfluff]

If the bins are on your own property on your drive but beside a neighbours window, are they cheeky to ask you to move them? The drive is 2 cars long but we have 6 bins to store - 4 wheelie bins for general waste, garden waste and various recycling and glass collection.

If your driveway was boundaried by the neighbours house wall would you be offended if they asked your kids to stop kicking balls off them and play football elsewhere?

If there is an alternative place for your bins, moving them would be a nice and neighbourly thing to do.

Similarly, if there is somewhere to play football which doesn't disturb the neighbours, doing so would be wonderful.

So the bins are lined up against the NDN wall, under a window?
And kids are kicking a football (hopefully) against the bins?

I think the DCs shouldn't be kicking a football against the bins when there is a distinct chance of the ball hitting the NDN wall, or even the window.

I think the noise from the ball constantly hitting the bins would be awful, especially if the bins are against the wall.

I think it is unneighbourly to have rubbish bins directly outside someone else's window - they must smell especially in the summer.

I would try and relocate the bins and I would not let my DCs kick a ball against wither the bins or my neighbour's wall.

I am not sure whether you are the NDN or the owner of the bins/DC

I'd try moving the food and general waste bins as far away from neighbour's window as possible. The bins often smell bad in the heat and if NDN has their windows open then they're probably getting a waft, which isn't nice.

I'm not clear about the football question. Are you saying the child is kicking their football off of a neighbour's house wall? If so then I too would be asking for the child to play ball elsewhere because it's probably noisy and irritating for them to listen to. I wouldn't be offended if the neighbour asked this.

If your driveway was boundaried by the neighbours house wall would you be offended if they asked your kids to stop kicking balls off them and play football elsewhere?

Um, no. I wouldn't have let my kids do that in the first place because I'm not a twat.

1. Not cheeky to ask and would be neighbourly to try to store elsewhere (especially any stinky ones, recycling is probably ok) but, equally, may not be possible depending on space available.

2. Kicking a football against someone's wall, so effectively constantly banging on their wall is really not on and probably worthy of a noise complaint if you/they don't stop.

Bins besides a window are never nice, especially in hot weather. I don't think it's cheeky to ask if they can be moved - maybe they could be double stacked on the side away from the window?

Also if it is their wall, although on your boundary it would be neighbourly for children not to kick balls off it - the sound can be horrendous from inside!

Can you move the bins somewhere else? The kicking of a football against the wall would annoy me too.

It would be polite to move the bins and to move the football. If asked nicely.

I'm guessing that you're the neighbour being annoyed by the bins and the football?

With the bins, theyve really got to store them wherever they can. If that means under your window then that is annoying but they're not wrong. Would be nice if they could find a better spot but with the number of bins, that isnt always possible.

The football against the wall though is totally out of order. You'd be hearing the thumping the whole time.

Don't get into a fight about them moving the bins but do tell the kids to shift every time they hit the ball against your wall.

There is trellis (put up by me) between the bins and the window. The bins could go either side of the driveway, on one side is the bin owners house wall and on the side they are currently is my housewall and window. The bins are accessed a few times a day so it's not as though it's all day long, I don't want to be unreasonable as the driveway is not my property. It's unfortunate that my living space and bedroom are on this boundary wall.

Okay, so you're the neighbour who's annoyed. Beware you're going to get a lot of replies assuming you're the bin owners.

What is the problem with the bins? Do they smell or do you just not like looking at them?

In the circumstances OP, to avoid any responses from anyone confused, I think we're going to need the obligatory diagram

I leave my bins on the pavement, they're not my property (owned by the council) and not my problem.

I wouldn't keep my bin near the neighbours if I could help it. I can smell my left neighbours stinking bins every time I open my kitchen door and they're not even against our fence. They're on the other side of their door (our back doors are adjacent)
I would also make sure my children weren't kicking balls against boundary fences or walls. It can be very annoying having to listen to the constant thump thump thump of a ball.

When we moved here our bin was beside the walkway my right hand neighbour has to use. I moved it away because I though it would be rude to make our neighbour walk past a dirty general waste bin. I don't know if it did bother him as I assume it had always been there but a small inconvenience is nothing if it makes life that tiny bit less unpleasant for someone who doesn't have a choice.

Definitely need a diagram.

So you think it's ok to have balls kicked against their walls? Have you any idea how noisy that is inside the house?

Also potentially damaging/marking the walls.

You don't sound very neighbourly. Move the bloody bins. It's causing them some distress (maybe smells or looking unsightly ).

You need to buy the bins. Leaving them in the pavement is a pain in the arse for people using the pavement and also means there more likely to get blown away or blown onto the road, which is dangerous.

Do you think you don't need bins? If you see them as not your problem and not yours to deal with then you obviously don't use them. Why don't you return them to the council?

Oh wait. I'm guessing you actually do use your bins. It's a council service we all need to use. Why be such a dick about it? If everyone left their bins on the pavement then the walkway would be unusable.

It's mostly the noise as even with the window shut to avoid the smell (dog poo) I still hear it all. The neighbour is rummaging through a few times a day. I'm possibly over sensitive due to their building work that's been ongoing for 13 months. I never know what noise or disturbance will happen, jack hammering, metal cutting, or now the bins and football banging when the builders leave. They drink a lot of alcohol and have a lot of glass bottles that are bashed around, I often wake up to them doing it.

It's probably because there are 6 bins of different types of rubbish that it's so frequent. My own bins sit a few feet from my front door along my house wall and I simply open the lid dump a bag in, so I don't know what all the rummaging and banging about is.

Would the noise be that different if they moved the bins six feet to the other side of the drive? I can hear glass bottles being put in the recycling bins 20ft from my house.

I would choose your battles and focus on the children kicking balls against your house. No reasonable person would think that's okay.

Unless the bins are directly under your window, then yes, I'd focus on the football issue.
There are hours you are allowed to use glass recycling skips - I'm not sure what they are, but to be neighbourly then could avoid binning glass outside those hours except maybe on collection day when we all know we are out there at the crack of dawn to catch the bin men, having forgotten!