Neighbour piling their rubbish outside of our house

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We don’t have wheelie bins around here, just sacks for specific items that need to be put outside along the curb the night before collection. It’s an awful set up as foxes rip the bags apart and leave a mess across the roads. I’m getting fed up with the fact a specific neighbour keeps placing their bags outside my house instead of their own.
There is a small section between my house to next doors house that isn’t a drop curb and the bag pile accumulates there to the height of a post box by midnight. This means rubbish blows onto our drive when the foxes get into it. My gate opens straight onto the bags with a small gap to get out and I can just about fit the pushchair through.
The neighbour lives 6 houses up and walks several times backwards and forwards to put her bags outside my house when she has a clear path without driveways outside of her house. It may only be once a week but I’m getting annoyed that the bags are increasing, I’m not sure why they have so much rubbish when it’s a middle age couple without children who work long hours. I counted 26 bags, excluding the recycling and our 2 bags collected today.
She was putting the bags out at the same time as DH this morning before work and he asked her why she walks all the way down the hill to put them out here, she said because she doesn’t want the smell outside her own house and she wants to leave space for other neighbours.
We don’t want to be confrontational about it, and I know they can put their bags where they like within reason, but everyone has a space of their own yet choses here so we have to see the mess the foxes make, smell it and then wait for the council to come and sweep it all up. It feels really rude and disrespectful.
I am dreading the summer with the smell and flies. The bin men left half the bags behind last week because they contained items not allowed to go in the specific bags. They will now sit outside my house forever as the neighbours won’t own up or take them away as has happened several times.
How can I make it difficult/inconvenient for them to use this space? I can’t put anything there as it’s a public section of the path/road with a lamppost. If I park my car there I worry they’ll pile the bags up around it and block me in. Would it be petty to put our bags outside their houses? Any other suggestions?

Didn't your DH tell her that you don't want them outside your house either.

I'd be taking them right back and dumping them in her garden until she gets the message.

Some people are beyond belief 🙄

You’re going to have to become ‘confrontational people’

I'd have a polite chat with them (assuming they are not scary folk!) and ask them why they think it's ok to put them outside YOUR house. Say you want them to put them outside their own house from now on due to all the inconveniences you mentioned above. Stay calm and friendly, it is not an unreasonable request at all, and makes perfect sense!

Then if they continue, move the bags (with your hazmat gear on) EVERY SINGLE TIME. Hopefully they will get the message.

Some people are totally bizarre aren't they?

I would put them outside her house.
every time.

And write to your local Cllrs about this dreadful system.

I would be walking up the hill and depositing my own bags outside her house. I will bet that she will stop pretty quickly. If any other neighbours do it then I would do the same until they stop too.

Report them to the council for fly tipping. There should be a form on the council website.

If she puts them out any earlier than the night before then I’d take them back to her house. Especially the ones with the stuff in that’s not been collected. Like a ‘I’m not sure you realised your stuff was outside my house?’

Just take them back to her house.

Report her for fly tipping and attach a photo of her doing it when you do.

Are you seriously going to leave someone else's uncollected bags outside your house ?

Just lob them back

I wouldn't leave them outside her house, I'd leave them on the doorstep so she had to move them before going out.

I feel your pain. We are at the end of a cul de sac and opposite our house has always been where the rest of the neighbours put their rubbish and recycling bins. Just looked out the window and next door have put their rubbish out one day early (bank holiday) and has already been ripped open by crows and strewn everywhere. If there's a breeze it will end up on ours. I've already taken a picture of it and if they don't come and clean it up, I'll be reporting it to the council. Sorry if that sounds petty but they've already peed me off this morning when I came back from work and their kids were in the garden screeching at 8.30. A lot of people have absolutely no respect.