Wheelie bins

[Poppydot3]

Our new neighbour and her neighbour next door have decided it’s easier for them to leave their bins (6 altogether) in front of our driveway hedge instead of putting them in their back gardens. They don’t want to have to look at them as they are ugly. So we have to look at them the whole time as the land in front of our house doesn’t belong to us. They on the other hand can’t see them from their houses. They look absolutely awful and visitors/other neighbours in the road think the bins belong to us. We are in a conservation area. AIBU to think they are CFs?

Check what the council and your deeds say about storage of them?

Spray paint their house numbers on them!!

Does your council not have rules about where bins can be left?

Push them back into their own land

preferably in the middle of the night and pushed over

I have asked the council and they’ve said if it’s their land they can leave them there.

Start filling them with your rubbish, that'll soon encourage them to move them

How do you have to look at them if they're the other side of your hedge?

Are they blocking the pavement?

Diagram is needed tbh

Diagram, it's the MN law! Also, it's a bit hard to understand the layout from your description.

I suspect that the council are correct, if the bins are on their land. Perhaps you can suggest creating bin stores for everyone so nobody has to look at the bins and it will improve the neighbourhood?

I can’t picture how they are on their land but outside your house?

@Poppydot3

I have asked the council and they’ve said if it’s their land they can leave them there.

How is it the neighbours land?

If they can’t see them from their house, wait till the dead of night and wheel them into the night

They’ll soon start storing them somewhere safe once they have to go through the hassle of ordering new ones

Okay, I definitely need a diagram for this as I am confused as others! So the bins are on their land, but they can't see them from their houses and you can. AND they're in front of your driveway hedge yet you can see them. And how is their land in front of your driveway hedge? I just can't picture it in my head!

Do you mean it's the neighbours land or council land? I think I had something similar, 2 sets of neighbours would leave their bins at the end of my driveway on collection day, rather than take them to the other side of the road to the designated area. My driveway is curved on a corner, so although they were leaving them on the pavement beside my driveway, so not blocking it, it was directly outside my front door. I hated having stinky bins outside my door all day. As it's council land I can't stop them leaving their bins there, but nor can they stop me moving them. I used to take their bins to the far end of the street. A few times having to walk in pouring rain to retrieve their bins was enough to make them realise it wasn't worth leaving them there. They now use the nearest designated zone they should've been using.

I did try having a chat with them first, but they just said the old owners of our house were fine with it so we should be too. Nice neighbours and we get on well, no lingering problems.