Neighbour using wheelie bin to save space?

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I live at the end of a cul de sac and have a drive with space for 1 car. Further up the street there are some terraced houses no driveways and on street parking outside their houses (not allocated to specific houses)

My teenage nephew is staying with us for a while and has been parking on the street by the terraces and one of the houses have obviously taken offence and have now started saving the space outside their house with their wheelie bin. Wibu to go and move it? Or are they right to be annoyed?

You wnbu to move the bins, as long as it's a public road.

Yep normal public road.

Move it.

Hate people that think they own the road move it on the pavement and park.

I dislike it when people do this on a public road, but have never had the nerve to move one. So, on all us scaredy-cats behalf, please move it.

I moved a wheelie bin placed for the same reason. The next morning I had a flat tyre. The garage said it had been slashed.

Why can't he park on the road in front of your house?

Because I am already parked there, blocking dh in fifffaff

Oooh. I have a wheelie bin outside my driveless cul de sac house.

If it's a brown one OP, the council are supposed to be coming to take it away. I've rang them three times about it. Perhaps if you try ringing them too they'll move it quicker.

Feel free to move it but not into my garden, it stinks, that's why I want them to take it away. It's not mine, it was dumped in my garden.

Is your neighbour blocking the space with their wheelie bin because they need the space at some point in the day for their own car? If yes then it's common neighbourly courtesy and your nephew should find somewhere else to park. If your neighbour has no need for the space then they are an arse.

It’s a green bin frequency so not the same one!

They are definitely saving the space for themselves fiff and there are no other spaces nearby. Surely they don’t own that space?

If yes then it's common neighbourly courtesy and your nephew should find somewhere else to park

Bollocks to that. If you choose to live in a terraced street, you accept that you may not be able to park outside your house.

Its illegal to do this. Move it or report to council

My council (allegedly) remove dumped wheelie bins free of charge. They clean them , repair them and recycle them. It might be worth checking if your council have a similar scheme. I would consider a wheelie bin left in the road outside of collection times to be dumped.

Nick the wheelie bin...they'll think twice next time

there are no other spaces nearby. Surely they don’t own that space?

They don't, and legally you're within your rights to move the bin and park there. I do think it wouldn't be very neighbourly though- they actually live there, your nephew doesn't, and yet they should be the ones to have to park somewhere else? Seems a bit selfish to me from you/your nephew. If there are no other spaces nearby I can understand why they would be so keen to use it.

Does this mean the neighbour doesn't have anywhere to leave their own car? I'd say they take precedence here.

Where do your neighbours park their car when your nephew is parked outside their house?

Look at it this way, if your neighbours had a visitor and he kept parking outside your house, so you couldn't park there, you'd be pretty pissed off.

If you're brave enough you are well within your rights to move it. I live in a terrace house with no parking and unfortunately if you choose to live there you just have to park where you can, not reserve it.

If they want guaranteed parking pay extra and buy a house with a drive, it's a public road anyone can park there. There was a comment last week from a poster who said a neighbour used to put three cones out to mark 'their space' another resident used to move the middle cone onto the roof of their own car and park between the other two 😁

I live in a terraced street and no one expects to park outside their house here. Sometimes I have to park right down the end of the street if I am home late. Sometimes I get to park outside my house.

I think we need a diagram.

Can't he park outside your garden?

It’s a bit annoying for the neighbours to not be able to park outside their house I suppose. Why doesn’t your nephew park somewhere else that’s not inconvenient for your neighbour?

O do think it's selfish of you to deliberately take a space in front of their house of you know that they live there and want to park in front of their home. Why don't you park further away if it's not a big deal, then your nephew can have your space?