Neighbor won't keep her bin in her own garden and never empties it

[megaindecisive]

I met my new neighbor properly for the first time today, despite moving in June.

She needs to drag her bin along the edge of my back garden and outside to be emptied. In the months I've lived here she has never emptied her bin.

I don't know if there was a previous arrangement whereby the person who lived here before was happy about her bin being left in their garden and was happy to empty it but I certainly do not want this.

She leaves her bin in my garden and locks her gate so I cannot return it.

I am sick of her never emptying her bin so that it stinks in my garden. It is full of dirty nappies and makes me nearly throw up if I get too close. But if I don't empty it then she fills up my bin as well.

Today I asked her very politely if she could put her bin back in her garden after it was emptied as I was unhappy with it being left in mine. She ignored me when I first spoke so I raised my voice. She told me she was too busy so I told her quite forcefully to put her bin back in her garden and that she had no right to leave it in mine. She stormed off.

I think I caught her in the middle of trying to fill my bin up again. I have moved my bin into a shed so she cannot fill mine up. She later moved the bin outside our gardens - where it should be left for emptying.

If she leaves it in my garden this week, am I being unreasonable to throw it over her wall?

Ah see that would fuck me off no end, probably to the point where I would wait until she'd gone out don a pair of marigolds and post her the contents of said bin.

Dirty cheeky bitch.

If she won't respond to reason, phone up the council and talk to the Waste Management team - tell them someone has abandoned a bin in your garden and could they send someone to remove it.

What Cant says, council can sort things like that out.

Also how does she actually get to the bins, if they are in your garden?

Does she go in your garden?

Christ that would drive me batty!

I wouldn't throw it over OP. Is it a wheely bin? How high is the fence?

The thing is - if you chuck the bin over then she has been absolved of the duty of bringing her bin in and you'll be having to chuck it over every bloody time!

Hopefully she will move out asap.

Pester the letting agent, phone them daily. Twice daily. Make it so that they regard it as a priority, if only to get you off their back. If the other house has a right of way, nothing can be done about that, but a right of way gives no 'right to stay' IYSWIM.

If the letting agent does not resolve the problem, then I would approach the council and ask their Environmental Health dept for help. An unemptied bin, full of nappies, must surely constitute a health hazard.

She sounds awful. Similar to one of my ex neighbours actually, though she was not of child bearing age (thank god)

She has to go through her garden gate into my garden, then down the side and then there is an external gate which she has access through to the road where the bins get collected.

It is 2 very separate gardens and her garden has a paved area for her bins to go in near her gate that leads into my garden.

It is a bit of a job for her to shift a full wheelie bin along her narrow path due all her overhanging plants, pots etc. It is so much easier for her to leave it by the external gate in my garden. And then never empty it.

I talked to my neighbor on the other side and he told me she's only been here slightly longer than me and has ignored him when he's said hello to her when she moved in and a few times in the street.

He said there was never any agreement with the bins and she started leaving the bins in my garden when the previous resident moved out. He thinks now I've had a word she will not do it again.

Apparently she doesn't get on with the neighbors on the other side also and that may be why she's moving out! I wonder what she did to piss them off?

I think i get it, she has right of access down a part of your garden because your garden is where the external gate is, its a shame you cant segregate that part of the garden into a clear walk way.

Another neighbor has said both the rubbish bins are for my house and her one was stolen the first time she left it to be emptied and never took it back in. My bin has a clear house number on it; the other bin is a slightly different type and has no number.

Apparently she'd tried to nab her other neighbors bin and that's why they fell out and why she's moving. This neighbor says I should lock both rubbish bins away as they both belong to my house - but I only need one.
But if it's my bin anyway then I am perfectly within my rights to leave it in the outside lane outside of my garden and if it's stolen then so be it.

The previous resident also never stored any bins near the external gate - that started after he moved out - it seems she's just taken liberties after he moved out.

Her recycling box is also left in my garden but that just doubles up underneath mine so it takes no place.