Neighbour putting bins against our fence

[LouRidley]

Hi MN,

First time house owner here and first neighbourly feud! (Lighthearted)

We moved into this house that has a shared path where neighbours all put their bins against their fence along the path. Except for our neighbour it seems who likes to put his bins against our fence, along with some other items such as bikes, old ironing boards, etc. I discovered the issue when our dog was digging in our garden persistently at this one spot and when I looked on the other side of the fence, some bin bags were just on the floor against our fence.
So I moved the bins across the path against his fence but realised earlier he moved them back against ours!
I went to knock on his door and while he was not that unfriendly, he basically explained to me in a very patronising way (repeating “do you understand?”all along) that he owned the path. I checked our title deeds after that and he definitely doesn’t, it’s unregistered land.
I therefore wrote a courteous letter and posted it at his door, saying that he got me curious about the ownership of the path and that actually, no one owned it, so that I kindly asked him to put his bins against his own fence.
Bit of a suspense what’s going to happen but my hunch is that he is going to do nothing and that his bins and rubbish will keep leaning on our fence.
Any clever plan of action you can advise here?
We all love a bit of lockdown drama!
Thanks
YABU- leave his bins against your fence
YANBU- and in this case what can I do not going OTT

If the space doesn’t belong to anyone is this not technically flytipping? Particularly if bins are overflowing and there’s other trash like ironing boards? Report it?

But also maybe just accept it and let it go

Sounds like you’re just mad on principle? If you have a dispute with your neighbour I’m pretty sure you have to declare when selling, it if has escalated, so I’d probably just let it go, peaceful life

Leave yours against his fence.

This would drive me mad and I'd be doing something about it.

If you want to be super petty, wait until he's out his bins out first. If they're against your fence, simply pop yours by his

Alternatively, Get some cheap large pots and fill with soil. Put those where he would normally put his bins. Or locate an old bike or something and tether it to where he's putting his bins

hmm agree inflatable dolls are a good one, maybe with a lot of empty booze bottles too?

or you could offer to take the ironing board to the dump for him (hopefully he will refuse!) and then put some nice plants in pots there, build a cute bin store for you bins only so his won't fit

I’d find it annoying but I don’t think there’s anything you can do unless you report it to the council. And if everyone leaves their bins on the path and people don’t care about that then I doubt they’d be interested.

It’s like parking outside someone else’s house - many people don’t like it but you can’t stop people, they’re within their rights.

So his bins are not on your property but on a share path where everyone keeps their bins? His bins are standing next to your fence? They aren't damaging your fence in any way? If I was your neighbour, I think I would think you were completely unhinged if you complained about this.

Agree with a PP, surely dumping an old ironing board there is fly-tipping

Bins I wouldn’t care, bags of rubbish, bikes etc I would because it looks like you’re messy when it’s not your rubbish!

Love the advice on here and happy to see I’m not the only one that would be annoyed by that! To be fair I didn’t think much of it until he told me he wouldn’t do what I kindly asked of him. Definitely don’t want a dispute but dislike a neighbour with a terrible sense of fashion who mansplains me why he has an imaginary ownership to a shared path and prefers to out his bins against MY fence. I’ll be a good girl and let it go I guess or put lovely plants all along my fence

YANBU
If he persists, just put your bins and rubbish against his fence.
Hopefully he'll soon stop.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Put lovely plants along your fence in pretty pots and when he is putting his bins there water your plants with a hose! He’ll soon move! 😂😂😂

I might be being dim but I can't visualise this at all.

what about painting these wors on your fence "mansplainer's bins here please" with a large arrow where he normally leaves them?

It’s not his land or your land. If they are affecting you in some way ie you can see or smell them - that’s an issue. But if not I am not sure why you are bothered. I think it makes sense on a path for all the bins to be on one side so it’s not something that would even cross my mind!

words not wors

Is it like a ginnel between your houses?
If it's not on your property, nothing you can do about it. Let this one go.

definitely put yours agains his

Unregistered land means you can’t find out who owns it without seeing the original deeds . No one has bothered or been obliged to register ownership - it doesn’t mean no one owns it

Wouldn’t it be sensible if everyone outs their bins on the same side? Then it’s easier to get past.

@stackemhigh it’s a weird one; there’s two streets of terraced houses and in between the two streets, there is an alleyway maintained by the residents. At the end of this alleyway is a locked gate (so it’s not a path people go through except from the residents who have a key). And residents use this fairly large alleyway to put their bins along the fence of their back garden at all times, and take their bins onto the street on bin day. Hope it’s clearer this way! That’s why there’s other stuff like the occasional furniture in there I guess (only from this neighbour though!), it’s not considered flytipping.

Puts, not outs!

Personally I couldn't give a flying crap about this. Just seems unbelievably petty.

This seems beyond petty to me to, really who cares?

Trying to see what's possibly going on on his mind... is he trying to widen the space to walk through by putting his bins your side so the space isn't narrowed too much? Or is there uneven ground his side? It would be worth trying to find out why he does it first so it's easier to resolve, ask him in a friendly way maybe? The junk that doesn't get taken by the council should be moved too.

I'd be lobbing it in his garden but I'm an aggy cow