Neighbour has put bins on footpath who to complain too?

[caramell]

For the last couple of weeks a neighbour has been placing their bins on a footpath that leads to my house.

She lives a door away from me and this is causing me a nuisance as I have 3 kids with the youngest being a baby.

She puts her bins there so they are not in her garden or driveway.

AIBU to complain about this?
I have asked her politely to move them to no avail.

If its your property.. id move them off it, or lock them in my garage. Or id knock it over so the bags spill on her property

My nutty neighbour started placing her bin at the bottom of my drive every bin day rather than outside her house. I’d move it and drive my car onto drive, she’d move it back to behind my car. Next day I’d move it, go to work. She was just a fruitcake.
Then one day my friend was picking me up, I said watch the nutty old bats wheelie bin when you pull up to my drive. My friend, who really didn’t bother much for nice cars just deliberately ploughed straight into it ramming it into the font of my neighbours house and flowerbed. She didn’t do it again.

This. Keep us updated!

If it's on your land, the Council aren't going to be interested.

Just keep taking them back - shame if they fell over and spilt everything everywhere

Where does she put her rubbish if her bins are on your land? Does she walk round to put it out on bin day?

I just wanted to say thank you for posting about Bin Wars.

With all the stuff about possible WW3 I find this thread hugely comforting.

If you own the footpath I wouldn't think it was a Council issue. Can you install a gate?
Have you told her its your land, not public land?
Last resort keep moving them.back every time as others have said

Could you define the edges of the footpath somehow? (I'm thinking big flowerpots planted in symmetrical rows either side) or even put up a small fence between the two front gardens/driveways? would be much more brazen to put bins in the middle of yours then.

Be prepared for world War three to break out.

firstly try approach and explain, otherwise report to council. The service standards will likely state that she must keep the him within the boundary of her own property other than collection day/ evening before.

speak to your waste management team, otherwise try community protection team that the enforcement team often fall under. If they are reluctant to do anything re private land they can still visit her and have a word.

Move them back

The bins belong to the council - you can complain to them

Recently had an incident with a neighbour putting rubbish in my bins.

Had to get to he Council involved and the matter was resolved.

Do not put your rubbish in this person's bin because they have evidence.in it that it belongs to you.
You can also be done for fly tipping!!

If they put their rubbish in your bin and it is in a black bag.

Wait until dark when they have gone to bed. Go out get in black clothes with a hood. Rip open the offending back black
bag and dump the rubbish on their door step.

if your neighbours have security cameras, smart doorbells etc.
Get someone to do it.

Good Luck
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I would hide the bin until the bin men have been and all the other bins have been emptied - then put it back where she left it. When she goes to collect her bin its still full - shame!

I had to do this when a “neighbour” (next bloody street!) kept leaving his stinking nappy filled bin by my house. In the summer it became eye-wateringly
whiffy.
I got so fed-up with it, one rainy dark night, I took it for a long, long walk, literally streets away.

Dont know what happened after regarding his bin, but we never saw it again. Just cannot abide people who don’t want their own rubbish near their own house and think it’s ok to dump it outside some other poor sods house.

I’d just pop out late at night and move them a few streets away

God, what a stupid entitled cow!

put your bins in her garden instead? So you have swapped bins?

Or take her bins hostage and don’t give them back to her?

Or ring council and ask which dept would be most able to help.

What is wrong with people??

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Good idea!!

Another vote for taking the bins for a walk to a few streets away.

Bearing in mind the number of people (myself included) who have ring type door bells get a friend in a hoodie to hijack their bin and remove it to somewhere it wont get emptied. Better still all their bins if there are multiples. Then not only will they have to hunt for them but they will be stuck with their stinking rubbish until the next collection. Or have to shell out for new bins from the LA and wait for them to arrive.

Of course the Council would be interested! Whether people own their homes is irrelevant. Council Services are for everyone. They provide the bins and part of our Council Tax pays for refuse disposal. Contact them - there will be an option for refuse disposal - and explain that your neighbour is stopping you accessing your home by placing her bins on your property. Also, the Council's Environmental Health Department could help as this is also an antisocial behaviour issue. Hope you get it resolved soon. 🙂

Go. And. Talk. To. Your. Neighbour.

Is it clearly your property? I’d go round and tell them nicely they probably don’t realise that the pathway is your land so can the bins be removed and take it from there

She says she has done.