To think I can leave my bins here?

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I’ve got a new next door neighbour (it’s a housing association property). I normally leave my bins in the front garden, there’s no rules around this and it’s easier for my bin-men to access as they collect and bring them back for me as I struggle due to mobility issues.

I normally leave them next to the pathway/hand rail for next door but in my front garden, this wasn’t an issue for the previous next door neighbour as they was very elderly and barely left the house and they said it was fine etc. Now I completely understand the new people might not want it right next to their pathway so that’s fine, but they don’t seem to want it in my front garden whatsoever.

AIBU for thinking that it’s my front garden and I can leave it within my front garden wherever I want and it’s none of their business? The housing association have no issue or rules with the bins being left there, most people here do it as most are elderly and would struggle to move them anywhere else, the next door neighbour simply wants them moved elsewhere because they want to sit out in THEIR front garden all day, so I don’t understand why my bins being in MY front garden would affect them??

My neighbour has no mobility issues and still has their overflowing bins next to my front path (away from theirs). As they are overflowing, litter frequently blows over into my garden and in summer the smell is quite something everytime I leave or enter my house.
But as there are no rules, I know it would be U to complain or make any demands.
So on that basis YANBU.

Well now it's the council responsibility. I work for the LA and refuse collectors arent allowed to walk over grass in order to collect bins ( we aren't insured) so those who get additional assistance have to leave the bins where they can be reached from the path. Some of the bin runs are really big. It's challenging enough emptying a few thousand bins, the guys often walk/ jog 14km plus a day and bins are often heavy especially on general waste days. If you start making refuse collectors play hunt the bins for the assisted lifts we take your bins away and give pink sacks to be left by the door or on the pavement and collected weekly.

Not sure if you'd rather be looking at a bunch of see through pink bags on a weekly basis.

That's what I said, but it does depend on the number of operatives, and how busy they are,even though i signed up my local council(bromley) service for residents with mobility issues (fibromyalgia) means I can't move heavy bins , but had to learn not to fill them upto much, still gotta 'present' the bin at kerbside before 07.30am on bin day!

Our neighbours have placed their bins on the front corner of our house, about 10cm from our wall which is the boundary. They have been asked to move them several times by the developers, it's a new estate, and the estate management company but they just ignore them even though their are restrctive covenants to prevent this and their is no reason why the bins shouldn't be near their property. For us it is very upsetting. We can't talk to them as they are confrontational and aggressive. I urge everyone saying they it's OK to think about the other person. We would just be glad if they put them next to their own house. Our only hope is that we have heard that they are moving soon!!

As DH and are old/disabled we have a sticker on our bins, should we need it the dustman will collect from the back garden, empty them and replace them, that' too much faff for us as we'd have get up to unlock the side gate and relock it. We keep the sticker incase it is easier to use their service in the future.

Explain to them you have mobility issues & that's why you leave your bins in the garden. Say you're more than happy to move them around the back or down the side if they're willing to put them out & bring them in each week on bin day. If they say no to that suggestion then your bins stay where they are in the garden.