To expect the council to address this

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A neighbour across the street directly opposite has been blocking the public road with their bins since last year. They swap the bins each week after the bin men have been, leaving their property to walk the bin into the road for the next coming week. This means that yes, they leave their house and walk down to the street each time they need to use their bin.

The bin is strategically placed to block any cars from parking in that one spot on the public road. They do not park in it themselves. We think they do it because they like to have more room to pull their car out from their parking space. The road is wide enough for 2 cars to pass each other. I assume a car parked there means you have to make a tighter right turn. Not impossible to get out, or blocking them in any way. Most of the roads here are designed the same way. Cars are parked behind this bin spot. They have an expensive car. However what usually happens is often delivery vans have nowhere to park up because the bin is there, so they end up just stopping in the middle of the road and no one can get past at all. The bin is making things worse.

I contacted the council and asked who owned the road and they confirmed the council did. I asked if anyone had applied to have lines painted to prevent parking (as I do not mind this if the council agree it’s appropriate). They had not applied for lines. I explained bin blocking the road for months and they assured me this was not acceptable and they would visit the property and then tell the owner to move it, and if they didn’t, they would get a fine.

I waited 2 months and nothing happened. I emailed the council with photos (time stamped) and got a response that they were visiting the property. I waited another 2 months and emailed and the woman I was dealing with didn’t even remember what it was about!

I feel is now petty on my part but it’s the principal for me. Not everyone here has parking and it is so incredibly entitled to have not just your own parking spaces (they have 2!) but actively prevent others from parking on a public road who pay their own road tax. Apply for lines on the road if it matters that much to you! I wouldn’t even object if it was carried out rationally.

Yes sometimes people move the bin but they have retaliated by throwing things onto peoples cars!

Your neighbours are nuts and the council should address this. I hope if an emergency vehicle can’t get through then it is for them and not another poor soul.

This might sound insane !! Can’t anyone in the street just move the bins themselves ?

Drive slowly and shunt it along. Park there...

Councils have 50p and a button these days. They don’t have the time or resources deal with this. Just move it into their driveway and park in it. Check on your councils website but we’re not allowed to leave our bins out for weeks on end so you’d be doing them a favour 😊

I’ve just googled this. They’re at risk of getting a Section 46 notice under the environmental protection act (1990) - ‘all receptacles must be removed from the highway asap after collection and in any case no later than the end of the scheduled day’.

The council could make money from them with a fine!

You can move the bin but if you park there they throw things on your car and one neighbours suspects they let their tyres down. They are awful people

Can you report it on the council's website, - you could on ours under 'highways' report it's blocked so it gets allocated an incident number. They then have to report back to you the outcome.

Message your local councillor. Ask them to take it up. If they are anything like our local councillors they will relish the opportunity to get involved

I have already reported it and I had a case worker allocated. She has done nothing, so I have reported it again today

Ask the designated employee how you escalate the issue to make a complaint as no action is being taken or look on council website how to make a complaint. They don't like complaints, as it causes lots of paperwork.

Has anyone got an old banger that they can park there for a while just to annoy them?

Alternatively, their bins could mysteriously go missing or get filled with other people's rubbish.

Wait until nightfall and drop some really smelly waste in their bin. Keep filling their bin with awful smells and take up their bin space. Be consistent. They'll tire of this and retreat.

Steal their bins and hide them.

So they have struck again. I parked very close to their bin. They left me a shitty note that I ‘hit their bin and need my brakes checked’

I moved the bin off the road and left them a note they don’t own the land where their bin was and I had contacted the council about it and they should not vandalise cars

The council are doing NOTHING and my bloody camera did not pick up them leaving a note. I reported this this morning as antisocial behaviour to the council

It is very selfish and irritating behaviour. Yes, the council could fine them. But they are massively underresourced and have other priorities. It will probably be on someone's list of things to do, but never actually making it to the top (it's a very low-level problem which will be quite difficult to actually stop).

It is a situation which can be dealt with by residents moving the bins and parking in the space.

Op I'll send you £100 to hire a skip and leave it outside their house...
Maybe someone here could get a ton of manure to their lawn?

Get the local councillors involved. I have got them involved twice in issues and amazingly the council have actually done something about it then! Until that point just got emails saying they are working on it. Its convenient that they work a bit harder when councillors get involved.

I'd move the bin somewhere else so they had to find it ( next street or round the corner - at night so they wouldn't know it was me). I'd keep doing it every time they left a bin there. Petty and annoying but then so are they.

It's a bin on wheels. Just keep moving it off the road even if no-one needs to park there. I don't see what the Council can do beyond what you have done already which is tell the neighbours they shouldn't be doing this.

They vandalise the cars if you do this

Lodge a complaint online at no action being taken despite you contacting them and nothing happening. This should then be dealt with by a supervisor and they will have to follow a staged process to show how they have resolved the complaint.

This is what I’d do I think , put a big coat on with a hood so they can’t see who it is on cameras and just wheel the bin away every night . Don’t leave your car in the space created and they won’t have a clue who’s doing it . You could also involve other neighbours and do it on a rota 😄

That is absolutely mad. Has anyone seen this or is it an amazing 'coincidence' that is obvious to everyone but hard to prove?

The trouble is there's not much you can actually do about people like this. It is infuriating but either you go for an absolutely targeted strategic campaign of evidence-gathering and forcing authorities to take action, or you live with the injustice and the inconvenience. Unfortunately it's much easier for people to get away with this behaviour, however unfair it is, than it is to stop them.

I am fuming my doorbell camera did not pick this up! I can’t work out why. It’s pointed there with motion activation. I’ve checked and nothing

I didn’t have a doorbell camera before so I got one especially for this reason. And I’ve sent the council all the evidence so far,

The council got back to me to say they visited the property but it was either bin day, or the day before bin day so it’s reasonable it might be there waiting and people sometimes forget to take it back. It’s not - it lives there all the time. It’s intentional

I hear what people say about wasting council money but I do not feel safe, my property (car) is at risk of damage.

Which idiot at the council visited on bin collection day??????
We out our bin out the night before but it has to be our driveway, not on the pavement and definitely not on the road. Some of the binmen are blase about where they leave the bin after emptying but it’s never on the actual road.