To think this is not a reasonable request?

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Dp and I were talking to the LL's the other day and they have requested that we not take any bin bags down to the communial bin area except on the days that the bins are taken ie; only take them down Mon evening/Tues morning when the bins are collected on Tuesday. This is to avoid the bags hanging around outside in the heat, which I understand is unpleasant.

The trouble is, we have nowhere else to put them! I really don't want to keep the bins inside the house as it gets really hot inside during the day and I have no desire to have stinky bin bags with old food in sit inside the house on hot days for up to a week at a time and we will end up getting flies etc inside our place. We can't leave the bags outside (eg, in the garden) as animals will rip them open.

Surely the whole point of having an outside area to store the bin bags is having somewhere to store them before the bin men come? What is the point of having it if we are not allowed to use it? I'm happy to double bag the bags and not overfill them to try and minimise the amount of mess that gets into the bin area but wibu to not agree to keep bins inside the house for a week in the summer?

When was the building converted into flats? There should be something in the planning permission specifying arrangements for outdoor bin storage. You can look at the planning documents on your council's planning website (look it up using your address) and then present your landlord with the information that he is required to adhere to.

we have literally no-where outside to keep our bins and we manage without infestation or a danger to our health, thank you very much.
It's bin night tonight, and the corner of the kitchen the bins are kept in is a bit whiffy but they're all in plastic bins with lids and there isn't really another option.

That's a very weird request. I'd assume there has either been complaints or a visible rat problem.

Are the other flats under the same landlord? How long have you lived there? Could someone have complained about you? Something has prompted it,,

I doubt there has been a complaint, it's a small site and we probably generate the least rubbish out of all of the properties ! I imagine they have asked everyone, I think they were a bit fed up with the mess last time they cleaned it out but I and they know that most of it was not generated by us.

We're all under the same LL afaik.

@ToastyFingers I'm sure there are people who manage, I used to live in a flat with no outside space that went straight out onto a footpath so I was in the same position there but here there is not enough room to store them inside. And we do have a designated outside space for them.

Sorry OP, my post wasn't really aimed at you, but at the few posters who seemed really disgusted at the thought of keeping bins inside, particularly the poster who likened it to child abuse.

It's ok toasty I get it, sometimes you have no choice. In my old flat it was ok as we had a big long corridor with a sort of utility area next to the bathroom where I could keep them so they were nowhere near the main living areas. No infestations either. It wasn't ideal but we made do.

Set up is totally different here though!

Surely you just replied we won’t be able to do that. ?? And I love adding that they can take the rubbish to their house if they like :D