Neighbours washing..

[washingfiasco]

A weird one but i need some light shed please wise people of mumsnet.
I live in a row of houses/flats on a roundabout, right neighbour is a house, left neighbour is a block of flats. Recently i've come home and there is a washing maiden that you'd sort of hang up on a radiator hanging off my fence. This fence is the one that is next to the flats, the flats have no gardens so i'm assuming its one of theirs.
I ignored it the first, second and third time but today i've come back with an ill child and had to get through 2 hanging off my fence and one right in front of my gate with a sleeping 2 year old who's ill and it's just annoyed me.
Would i be unreasonable to tell them to not hang stuff of the fence? I understand they want it to dry but it's frustrated me today!!!

@washingfiasco

But does it get left out overnight?

It's honestly like going and hanging washing on the house over the road's front fence.
I don't think it is though. The walkway doesn't directly run along or look into anyone's house or garden, as far as I can see.

It would piss me off if someone used my fence for anything. I'd be detaching them onto the pavement.

i'm with the ''take it down, put it in a bin bag, and leave a note' brigade. Why should the OP have to watch out of her window to see when the CF comes to collect their washing?

@IntermittentParps

It's honestly like going and hanging washing on the house over the road's front fence. I don't think it is though. The walkway doesn't directly run along or look into anyone's house or garden, as far as I can see.

It does - from OP's diagram the walkway runs directly along her fence, between her garden and the carpark.

But it's not even about what the walkway looks into anyway, it's about someone making use of someone else's private property without their permission. It is not a shared fence with the flats so there is no way someone has mistakenly taken it to belong to their block.

Just because OP's fence backs onto a public walkway - as many of our front fences do to the pavement in the same way - it doesn't mean any old person using that walkway can also make use of her fence for whatever they like?

Do you actually know the people who are doing this?

Is there a reason they can’t hang it on their own fence either facing their garden or outwards?
I find it so odd it’s being hung in a public area! I assumed they didn’t have a garden until I saw your diagram.

So someone from the flats is hanging their washing on your fence essentially? Yeah, that's CFery!

I'd put it on the floor.

I'd put a note on it simply saying please do not hang washing on my fence, thank you.

I'd creosote the fence and any washing hanging off it.

YANBU OP. I would have left a note the first time, and put a sign on the fence saying private property, then if it happened again, I would remove it every time. If you get any trouble, then maybe get a cheap security camera to cover that area?

This will escalate fast and before you know it, every flat owner will be hanging stuff off the fence.

Take it off and put it on the floor and pin a note to the fence to say it is private property and not part of the flat complex.

Knock it off the fence and stick a note saying "stop hanging your smalls on my fence - I do not give permission for your gusset to be attached to my property". Or similar.

CF.

It's CF territory for sure. It's not their fence and the washing hangs over the walkway! Do you come in from the left or the right or does it depend on where you can park? I'd move it, every single time any maybe drop a few items. They'll surely get the hint that it's getting in someone's way and hopefully come up with another solution.

If the washing is backing onto a car park it’s going to smell of exhaust fumes surely? Terrible place to hang laundry.

Also, you don’t actually need to tell anyone to stop hanging their laundry on your fence when you don’t know who it is. You just remove it from your fence and leave it on the pavement.

It would annoy me, I’d knock it off and hope that’s enough to stop them doing it as it’s blocking a walkway it could be knocked by anyone.

I would move it so I could access the gate and leave a note asking to make sure you can get it but apart from that I'd let them do it, it must be shit to have no where to dry clothes other than hanging from a neighbour's fence in a car park.

I assumed they didn’t have a garden until I saw your diagram.

Do they? I really don't seem to be understanding this diagram.

This thread is a revelation to me. The ire about someone hanging things somewhere the OP can see them

I would leave the washing on the ground. No way would I have someone using my fence for their washing line.

@IntermittentParps

I assumed they didn’t have a garden until I saw your diagram.

Do they? I really don't seem to be understanding this diagram.

This thread is a revelation to me. The ire about someone hanging things somewhere the OP can see them

It depends who is doing the hanging - if it's someone from the block of flats then they do not have a garden.

The fence belongs to the OP's house and the other side of the fence is a carpark.

It's not about the OP seeing it - it's like your neighbour from down the road coming over and hanging their washing on your fence.

@washingfiasco

The most shocking diagram ever. The little blocks by my fence are the washing thats on my fence and infront of gate.

I think I’d accidentally knock them off and accidentally tread on them. Can’t see it happening again after that.

Do they? confused I really don't seem to be understanding this diagram.

I misunderstood the diagram and thought it was the neighbour with a garden but it’s a neighbour without a garden.

has this become a laundry parking thread?