To object to my neighbours putting their wheelie bins outside my house?

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At my front wall rather than the other side of the driveway. Also they leave them there for days.

If they put them on the other side will that not be in front of someone else's house?

Just wheel them back onto their drive when they've been emptied so they think the binmen have done it.

If they put them the other side they would not be right in front of a house.

Are you sure it’s them actually putting them there? Maybe they do put them. The other side and the bin men are just leaving both lots together. In our borough a guy used to go round collecting the bins together in groups so the lorry didn’t have to stop so often - then they’d leave them there and people had to fetch them. (We now just have bin bags, so it’s no longer a problem)

Is the other side of the driveway their garden?

If you put them on the other side of the driveway, are you just moving the problem to somebody else - will somebody else start a similar thread moaning about the bins being outside theirs?

The answer is to move them about halfway down the drive, in such a way that it's really annoying for them. But halfway means it's just as easy for them to pull the bins back to their own house, rather than back out to the road again.

Have you asked them if they could put them on the other side?

YANBU. Unless of course your own bins are always outside at the front. Maybe that's why they keep doing it to keep your bins company

This looks like where I live.
The driveway feeds 4 other houses and is a non adopted road so the council lorries won't drive down it and we have to take the bins/recycling out like this.

They are not left in front of any doors. The other side of the driveway is another house's drive with a car in it which we cannot block.

The other side of the road is a childrens' park where rubbish would go in on a windy day.

Only option is what OP has indicated in the diagram. Our neighbour did suggest making changes but he also shares the access road and suddenly realised he was weighing up the "issue" of bins being outside (not in view of his lounge or dining unless he leant out the window) versus paying to resurface the private road more frequently.

The issue was no longer an issue!

Our binmen prefer them clustered together, as it saves them time and walking. Maybe your neighbours are doing the same. We are told to have them out by 6am, so mine go out the night before. I sometimes feel guilty that my bins are outside someone else's house, but the layout of my estate means they don't collect from any closer to my own house so I have no other options to get them roadside.

It makes sense to have all the bins together, for the sake of the binmen. If you want the bins to be at the other side, maybe start leaving yours there?

I do move them and if I can establish whether I'm bu then I'll talk to them

I would ask them to take them in after they are emptied.

Or take your own in and set fire to theirs. Having someone else's bins outside my house would irritate the hell out of me.

If they say anything, roll your eyes and say "Kids these days . . . what can you do?"

Start putting your rubbish in them.

OK, well I think YABU to not want them outside your house for collection. Whether there is 2 or 4 makes no difference, they can't leave them outside their own house and leaving their bins next to yours is better for the binmen.

However YANBU to want them moved later the same day once the bins have been emptied.

I have this situation. Due to the layout of the streets the houses which are on the street perpendicular to mine put their bins outside the front of my house. They are miles away from the front of their own houses, but their gardens back on to the side of my house with a path in between so it sort of makes sense.

Anyway, it drives me mad because they leave them out there for days (presumably because they don't see them and the bins aren't in their way) and when it's windy they blow over and up my drive. Drives me nuts but I'm not sure how to solve it!

Just drag them up their drive and if they ask say you heard teenagers were stealing them to set them on fire (this actually happens in my town) so you thought youd bring them in to keep them safe.

I wouldn't be bothered about them being there before being emptied and afterwards why don't you pop them back outside their gate when you bring yours in that way you are getting what you want and doing a helpful thing for them too?

When you take yours in pop theirs in their drive to be 'helpful' and all that. I am sure they will soon get the hint.

But i don't think there is an issue with them putting outside your house to be emptied. Yours are there any way and it is easier for the bin men.

Is this just on collection day? If so YABU, if your council is like ours you have to put them somewhere on the actual street not on anyone's property and it looks like they are just taking them to the end of their drive.

If they're not taking them back once they've been emptied just move them to the middle of their drive. If they come back move them again, see who gets bored first......

If it's only on collection day then YABU to be honest. I mean, so what? I am not seeing a problem.

Fill them with rubbish.

I think they'll take them in.

Is your main objection that they are outside your house or that they leave them there for days after bin collection? Sounds like two issues, and IMHO, if they were only outside yours for bin day, it wouldn't be so much of a problem?

Pick the biggie and feel free to have a word. I can see why it's annoying.