Is he a CF, or am I a PF (petty f-r!)

[Noshowlomo]

Hi all,
Just need to know am I BU before I knock on his door. We’ve lived our house 2 years, and we are at the top of the street in a cul de sac. I’ve attached a photo with my drive and neighbours so you know whose house belongs to who. We’ve got a weird wall a tiny bit of garden area that you can see in the photo, (highlighted with yellow) which is near the pavement. I hate that wall, and want to knock it down and build something else in the summer, but I digress.
Next door down ALWAYS put their bin and bags outside my brick wall, so therefore outside my garden/house. Now I know the pavement is the pavement, and I don’t own it, but he could easily put it outside his own house and wall (highlighted blue). It really bugs me! He will put his bin and bags at the front and around the side if he has more. Last week we got there first with the bin and bags but his food bin was there and I added mine, and later he moved my food bin to add his recycling bags. We had LOADS of recycling bags last week as we’d had a kids party at home, so he put his recycling bags on ours!
It’s peeing me off! It looks like we put out loads of rubbish, and if he’s got stuff they won’t collect in his bags then they’d be left outside our house!
Bags get collected Friday, and there is now, Monday, a bag been left outside in the last 2 hours! I know you can get fined for putting bags out early, and whilst I didn’t see him out this bag out I am 99% sure it was him.
Neighbourly relations are otherwise fine, we get on, but he is known for being a bit cheeky. My friend describes him as an odd bod as she’s known the family years.
So, is he a CF - YANBU
or am I just a PF - YABU

But... you both have drives. The only bit of pavement not connected to a drive is the bit with the wall. So the bins go by the wall or else the drive is unusable, right? If he put his bins out front of his house he wouldn't be able to use his drive?

@MrsElsa , no he has a long bit of wall down from his drive. See the blue line in the first pic, that’s his front wall and it goes down further than in the photo. It’s quite a long garden. So the bit by the wall is the only bit of pavement that my house has to put the rubbish.

And I just remembered, when he has something to put out for the scrap man, such as a small item kettle, toaster etc, he puts it on my side of the wall! Just remembered that. That peed me off as well

Its a bit annoying. Like folk parking outside your house when they can park outside there own. But if the bins are only there for a few hours I can't see the big deal. Is there a reason why he can't put them outside his own house maybe there's cars parked and the bin lorry can't get access. Who knows. I wouldn't make a fuss or even say anything .

Can you not just ask him why he puts it there - it is not his wall, and therefore he needs to put it somewhere else.

Because he it putting rubbish out four days early (which may cause a fine to be issued) and means that there is twice as much trash left out as there are two houses - which means that the bin men may report that there is too much trash, or actually leave some behind.

Yes it would annoy me and I'd start petty bin wars

@Viviennemary nope it’s a wide street with plenty of room even with cars parked both sides. It’s just odd. I just didn’t want to chat to him if it was me being unreasonable. He definitely knows that area is ours. It’s so clear anyway but I know some people do like a land grab, but he sat and talked to my husband the year we moved in, whilst my husband removed the mega bush that had grown in that weird garden area.

@Mynewnameis game on 😂

Start growing your new giant gnome collection in that spot and put your rubbish outside his wall.

It looks like if he put them along his white wall then it would block the pavement for pedestrians (cars parked on kerb?) the corner where your wall is seems to be wider to tuck the bins in. So he might think it is considerate rather than cheeky.

I don't think knocking the wall down will make a difference, he'll still put it there. I know you're not knocking it down because of this, but it won't help. Will you then be able to see his rubbish from your house with the wall gone?

This would piss me off. I think I'd either ask: "Brian, why do you put your rubbish on our boundary?", or just start putting your rubbish outside his, but he might not even notice that if you're putting it out on collection day.

Put your rubbish by his wall.

@TempName247 nope never any cars parked on the curb, the pavements and roads are wide in my street. The houses down from him manage it. It’s just strange.
I don’t want to be a dick, if it’s me that’s being a dick, but it’s weird. Next door up from us have a wall that I would never dream of chucking my bags and bin in front of.

@ReadingSoManyThreads we will need something there but maybe a nice fence that’s lower on our side, as no one will distinguish between us and the pavement then, but not sure what yet.

I agree. Why doesn't he just leave them outside of his own house! Very strange and, yes, annoying. X

I think he’s an absolute cheeky fucker and would talk to him about it.
Brian - I’m sorry to mention but would you mind not putting your rubbish by my boundary wall. There isn’t always enough for my own bins and I’d rather not have to move things from my driveway when I’m in a hurry . Sorry to mention it but it is bothering me. Thanks so much.

I think where he leaves it is the most logical space. At the blue area it will block more of the path. And no sense in blocking his own driveway.

If you are worried it looks like you leave loads of rubbish out then dont as any rubbish there looks like it is his.

Separately why was that wall ever built? Is that little area for bin storage?? I can't imagine why else it would have been sectioned off like that.

I'd just move his bins to outside his house. If he says anything just tell him you don't like anyone else's rubbish outside your house as you need it for your own rubbish and it looks unsightly having both your rubbish and someone else's rubbish outside YOUR HOUSE.

No. Try again.

@Ellie1015 the blue line is just where his front wall is and the pavement. It’s not a path, just pavement that goes down and up the street. The houses down from him put their bins and bags on the pavement in front of their garden walls.

@woahhhh previously, there was no drive just a garden with a brick wall and gate. The people before us put a drive in so it’s all open, apart from that weird little bit. It is so weird

Move them back in front of his house and put yours there.

Weird the way the wall cuts back, it looks like across his property? Do you have the LR plans? If I was him I would think I had rights to that bit, if I understand it correctly

@Bumblebeeinatree its definitely ours, the second photo I posted shows it from the other side, looking down from my house.

Doesn't anyone actually speak to anyone else anymore? A lot of the responses are passive aggressive actions.
Okay, the neighbour sounds a bit of a twunt, but at least try saying something to him about it.

Yes this