What’s a reasonable time to knock on their door?

[MinnieMountain]

We’re staying in a holiday let. It’s a middle terrace with a right of way over next door’s garden.

I’ve just noticed that they have blocked our gate with bicycles. We need to use it to put the bins back.

What’s a reasonable time to knock on their door to ask them to move them? I suspect it’s an attempt to stop us using it as they were in when we came that way yesterday.

Just reading all your responses together, you seem to be going out of your way to annoy the neoghbours because you are legally right and you ‘know the law’.

you are spending your holiday telling strangers in the internet that you know the law and your holiday let neighbours should not expect quiet enjoyment of their holiday garden because that’s the law.

maybe they don’t know about the right of way. Maybe they thought it was just bins and were annoyed at you cutting through their garden. I couldn’t get worked up about my legal rights to take off my sandy shoes at the back door of a holiday let😂.

it seems OTT for a short break. I wonder what happens when you have a fence dispute or a neighbour with a barking dog. It seems extreme.

How on earth is she going out of her way to annoy her neighbours? She’s used the path once to not traipse sand through the house which seems completely reasonable and now she needs to get bins in because they’re blocking the path. Presumably annoying people that are using the path. Also completely reasonable! She’s only arguing her right to use the path because so many people are incorrectly telling her what she can and can’t do. It’s utterly ridiculous!

I can believe the comments in this post, dont people know what right of way means. Glad you got it sorted, i dont know why people are being derogatory about you being a solicitor,

Your being totally ridiculous. Her comments have only been in response to people. Going on about her being a solicitor makes you seem jealous

This thread has some wildly OTT responses. @MinnieMountain you seem to me like the sort of person Id probably like living next door to. Ignore the idiotic comments! Putting the bins back is the right thing to do. And taking them through the house obviously isnt. Perfectly reasonable to ask the holiday let next door to move the bikes so you can etc.

I didn’t once mention that she is a solicitor! Lots of people say they know the law. And most people do have a good grasp of it.

why would I be jealous of a strangers job? And why would I be jealous of a solicitor specifically?

I’m really not sure why the responses on here are so savage. Perfectly reasonable question from OP. My neighbour has right of way across my back garden. She can use it whenever she wants to access her back garden. As she frequently has a muddy dog after her walk she uses it. That would go for sandy shoes too. I wouldn’t expect her to walk through her house. I have put a hot dog wash in the shared passage that I am happy for her to also use on her way through. It’s neighbourly. Be nice people.

Where have you been hiding ?😀. Solicitors and barristers are despised openly, until they’re needed of course. As soon as anyone on these threads is in any real trouble eg fleeing domestic abuse, then all of a sudden they are the answer.

No-one likes a know-it-all until they need someone who knows it all. We’re like children in the playground really, pathetic.

I honestly don’t think solicitors or barristers are hated in general society. I know there is a running (bad) joke in many American tv shows and movies about lawyers but I have never heard it in the UK or Ireland. I have never heard people expressing any opionions on the profession.

a number of friends and colleagues are solicitors and they have never mentioned this?

Do I live under a rock😂

it seems like you’re overly precious and quite dramatic, ‘ruined holiday’ ‘unneighbourly’

I’m sure everyone renting a holiday let is old enough to understand some spaces are communal

Because when you rent someone’s property you take care of it??

The entitlement of people on this site is astounding

If not time sensitive for putting bins out then 10am. People like to chill/have a lie in on holiday

How is walking across a garden "spoiling someone's holiday"? Dramatic much?

Says the person posting a sarcastic comment that will probably start arguments 🙄🙄

I’m not reading the comments properly because some posters have been unpleasant, but I’m amazed this thread is still running 😆

Rights of way are granted to give people access. They are a legal right to cross the land precisely to give access. What a daft response.

All this venom directed at OP because she was a solicitor and was asking what would be a polite time to knock? Anyone was thinking she was wanting to steal their kids!