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

Can you shove his stuff back in front of his driveway and put your stuff out? He honestly sounds weird. He doesn't want his crap in front of his house, but happy to clutter up your frontage. Cheeky git.

If you remove the wall, will he just dump his stuff in the "freed up" space?

I think he’s worried the bin men won’t see it if he puts it outside his wall, because there’s a car parked in front.

Not that that excuses it.

I’d shuffle all that along so it blocks his drive completely and then put my bins up against my wall. Preferably do it while he’s out at work today so he can’t drive back onto his drive.

But I am also a petty fucker, so…

@Noshowlomo If you are absolutely 100% it's his (if I recall correctly, I think you had a camera), I'd just push it all to the right a bit, onto his drive and put yours in it's place. Or just push it onto his drive and not put anything in its place.

Or as someone said above, knock and say "someone has dumped all this outside my wall, I don't suppose you saw who did you?"

I couldn't get excited about this to be honest

@Bloom15 it just looks so messy outside my wall, and it’s not my mess!

Why don't you just keep moving it and dumping it outside of his garden or better still in it.

If he puts his other bin outside his wall, I suspect that he's 'forgotten' that bit of wall space is yours and just thinks of it as putting his bins out either side of this driveway. If I were you I'd stop fuming silently and go round and say you'd rather he didn't put stuff outside your wall. Any passive aggressive moving of stuff will end up with more aggro than a short conversation.

Because even if you knock the little wall bit down and put something else there, it's likely he might still keep putting his stuff there.

Please please please just go out there this weekend with a sledgehammer and knock down any wall to the left of that pillar adjacent to his drive so in effect there’s just a bit of flat garden at the edge/end of your drive.
Eventually you can make it look nice and pretty but for now no ‘wall’ for him to stack anything in front of - job done! 😁