Neighbour's wheelie bin

[Juells]

Suspect IABU, but it winds me up so much.

Next door is in 3 flats, and their bins annoy me anyway - always overfull and the recyclying blows into my garden.

There used to be a parking space on the road, which I'd manage to grab about half the time. That space is now gone, as new tenants moved in next door and got the landlord to take down the garden wall and concrete the lawn - all contrary to planning, but I don't feel like having a row with the landlord. But...every so often they put their wheelie bins in front of my house. Not blocking my drive, but it really pisses me off. I'm sure they're legally entitled to do it, but every time I grab their bins and lash them back in front of their own house.

I know it's petty, but being nice and neighbourly got me walked all over by the same landlord in the past.

Are you sure it's them putting them there and not the refuse collectors?

No, they've just put them out for the early morning collection, and I've just humped them back. I know I don't own the pavement, it just really annoys me because of various other things that the landlord got away with because I was just too soft. grrrrrr...

You probably abu, but i feel your pain op. My next door neighbours do the same sometimes with their bins because of the cars parked outside. And thats another thing that gets on my wick, there is two people who live next door who drive their own cars and one who regularly visits and their is always a bloody car parked right outside the gates, and i know iabu because i dont drive and they are allowed to park their but it pisses me off everytime i see one of them parking there.

If you're a woman on your own everyone thinks - or knows - they can walk all over you.

If they don't keep their bins in view aren't they likely to go astray dispose of them somehow

Report the unauthorised drive to the council. I’d also park there as since it’s not a real drive you aren’t blocking them in.

Do they have a dropped curb? If not, you're entitled to park on the road as you use to do.......

I phoned the council planning office at the time, without giving the address, and was told that if I lodged a complaint they'd force the reinstatement of the wall, but I just didn't want the hassle and confrontation so I let it go. Soon afterwards the council did a job on the pavements, and dropped the kerb in front of any house that had removed the wall. In a cul de sac of 46 houses only three are left with the original walls, everyone else has removed the wall. Because of what that's done to parking, I'm going to be forced to do the same thing eventually.

I still think they've a cheek to put out their bins in front of my house, though.