To remove neighbours bins from my back garden

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For background we bought a house a year ago but completed some renovations before moving in and so haven’t lived here for very long. Neighbours have lived in the house next door for over 30 years. They have decided to keep two of their three bins in our back garden (outside their back gate in a little nook against their wall but very much on our land) and will not move them.

They say they’ve earned a right of way by prescription through our garden to take their bins out. For various reasons I don’t believe this to be correct but it would be outing to expand.

They have direct access to the road from their own garden and a massive amount of land (5 times the size of ours). Title plans on the land registry are very clear as landmarks are obvious and there are no such recognised easements in the deeds.

Even if they were to obtain a formal right of way across our garden surely this doesn’t give the right to keep their bins here?

AIBU to just move them? I’m worried about formal consequences mainly.

Just move the bins. I would.

How can they access your land? I would block their entrance.

How do they have access onto your land?

Move the bins and lock your gate

Move them.
They're obviously cheeky fuckers. Do you need fences/gates?

Move them! If you’ve asked nicely and they refuse, then shift them yourself.

The brass neck!

I believe, but I could very much be wrong, that you can accrue a right of way across a piece of land if you do it long enough without anyone stopping you. However, I don’t know if that allows her to store her property on your property. You could argue that she is welcome to walk across it but can keep the bin elsewhere.

Do you have legal cover in your house insurance?

CFs. Move them and block access to prevent any reoccurrence.

Yabu to not provide a drawing!

How long have they been doing it for?
Has anyone ever given them permission to do it?

Put something else there. Shed or grit bin or a tasteful sculpture.

Wouldn't the onus be on them, if it ever got to a court, to prove their right of way? And storing their property on that property - I'm pretty certain that isn't a legal right?!

I'd be telling them to move their bins, or I'll more them for them, and padlocking their means of egress.

Depends , do you want harmonious relations with your neighbours or you don't care if they hate you/ want to escalate matters

Resolve it amicably or remove bins and block that is your choice

Personally I'd get proof that they have no right of way then show them the proof and ask them to remove their bins ( I would make up convincing reason that space was about to be demolished or some such excuse)

I'm thinking of my tiny garden and how pissed off I'd be because bins would take up half my garden area but if you have "land" and would not hardly notice them bins I would rather have happy neighbours ... your call

Could do with a photo or drawing. Can you put up a gate? I'd move them in the first instance

Maybe put your bins in their garden?

I bet they're the type of ppl to put cones outside their house to claim parking on a public road too

Maybe put your rubbish in their bins?!

I’ve just looked up the rules to remind myself.

They have to prove 20 years continuous use, without secrecy and without permission.
It can be anything that’s not illegal.

The rules are in the Land Registry practice guide 52 if you want to show them something.

I hear whispers of “diagram”.....

Bin locks. Bins on your land surely are your bins.

How are they getting into your garden-isn’t there a fence?

Using your garden as a bin storage when their own garden is 5 times the size is totally unreasonable.

Set them on fire. I think you can also get high on the fumes

Even if they have a right of way across your land (doubtful), that's not the same as the right to use your land to store their bins. Put them in their garden - in fact I'd be tempted to wheel them round to front and tell them to piss off. Every. Single. Time.

Move their bins (somewhere of great inconvenience to them) and put your own in their place?

I would do as others suggested. Move the bins, block their access, tell them not to put their bins there

How cheeky and wtf is wrong with people

Move the bins and find a way to lock your neighbours out from your property

catch the bin men, tell them those bins are surplus to requirements and to take them away

when cf neighbours come round to ask about them deny all knowledge of bins and just keep asking " but WHHHHHYYYY would YOUR bins be in MY garden? "

Honestly why do some folks let others treat them so bad

Move the bins back and text him and tell him not to put his bins on your land again, if he does so they will be removed and destroyed.

Adding they are trying it on, you can get the people you bought the house from to sign a statutory declaration confirming that the neighbours had not been crossing the land with their bins for sufficient time to establish a right of way or to confirm that they asked them and were given permission.