To be absolutely sick to death of neighbour?

[Pookie32]

We live on a road of terraced houses with on street parking. We live very near to the centre of town with no permits - so it’s a bit of a free for all in terms of parking with lots of people parking for work etc. It’s incredibly irritating and we’ve been asking the council for permits for some time, which is hopefully coming soon.

Last year we had a new neighbour move into the street. I have never spoken with her directly.

Since moving in she has taken to leaving her bins in the street in order to ‘reserve’ a parking space.

There is barely enough room on the road for all residents, without the issue of people parking for town, so there is not room for her to do so without preventing other people from parking.

I frequently have to park on another street which is obviously very irritating, but part of living on a terraced street. We’d all like to reserve spaces if we could!

Where she lives her bins is also right outside my own house (obviously as the houses are close), so sometimes I come home and the only space happens to be outside my house which is great but then I notice it’s taken by the bins! I do move them but it’s so annoying.

Whenever I notice the bins in the road, I move them (regardless of whether I want to park there etc). I have spoken to two other neighbours who have confirmed they do the same and they are just as frustrated.

I have also reported her to the council for obstructing the public highway. I have had a response stating they can initially send a letter but nothing more.

i have also posted a note through the door asking for them to be more considerate to other residents and to petition for permits if they are annoyed about the parking.

aibu to be super annoyed about this?

im at the end of my tether with what to do about this but its really bugging me!

Or a nice long drive?

It would be a shame if they accidently tipped in her garden

Your not supposed to.put bins out
You could be liable if someone has an accident because you've got a bin out.

The council can tell her and they can check it's stopped

Just leave it at that it's their job not yours.

Oh yes how are you supposed to get heavy smelly bins in your car and put the other end.
Not to mention you could be in trouble for stealing the bins.
Silly advice.
You do.itbthe right way and you tell the council and take a picture
Your not allow d to put bins out in case they cause an accident.

Parking is a major problem. Too many cars and the roads weren't built for them.

This used to annoy me when a neighbour who mended cars as a side hustle did it- and i don't even have a car, I just used to put his bins back where they should be- no one has priority, whatever their "reason".

Empty the contents of her bin, bags etc on her doorstep. Then wreck the bin. Try and melt some of it.

and shove it under her car. Do this in the dark wearing dark clothing.
Failing this put her bin on the middle of the road and set fire to it.

Look out for CCTV and Ring Door Bells.

Only joking. A Nods as good wink to a blind horse. If you know what l mean.

just tip them in her front garden. She will stop pretty soon

You can have a lot of fun hiding and moving wheelie bins. Similarly adding stink bombs or the wrong kind of rubbish so they get penalised. I once moved all my neighbours bins to the back garden of an empty house. I live in an ethnic area so on the occasions I have done it I wore one of the costumes I bought to go to Iran. One shadowy figure flitting about in hijab at 4 am could be anyone. Night vision of cctv and ring doorbells is not that good.

I think we must live in the same road! Edge of town, terraced houses, people parking then going off to work.

Worst of all is I have an allocated disabled bay to me, my car, my house outside. But it's a white painted one, so the moment I leave, any old bod, blue badge or not, leaps in it.

I also have a neighbour with relatives who live in the next street over. That has parking permit restrictions. All four of their cars appear in our little road, parking one side only as its one way, because they won't pay for a permit.

Bah!

Keep moving their bins out of the way!

Although the PP who said about someone standing in the road - my 94yr old neighbour saw me coming along and stood in the disabled space to stop anyone parking in it!! Not as easy to move as a bin...!

Sorry I have no other advice apart from keep moving the bins. My carer phoned the other day when she was due to say the only space nearby had bins in it. Move it, move it, I said! Even my dog has learned what 'move it, move it' means but that's normally off the settee!

I'd give them a holiday with mine for a week or so!

@Pookie32

keep on keeping on!!

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She is a fucking selfish arsehole who is causing an obstruction . Good on you! That would piss me right off.

We had a neighbour who did this and then bought yellow traffic cones to block off the space, someone must have told him its illegal as he finally stopped. since passed away..the cones are still in his front garden, wife doesnt drive...He also used to put notes on cars, advising them not to park outside his house...

We used to have a neighbour who used some (stolen) parking cones to do this. Most people were too embarrsssed to move them but I did. Get in the sea with that. I don’t know what their surname was but we called them the Parkers. They moved to a house with a drive, good for them.

spray fart spray in bin, mature I know :)

😂

... and please set up a camera so you can video her bafflement when she can't get the lid open and post it online for our amusement!

I'd be hiding those bins!

Omg, some of these replies have me dead 💀 🤣

I honestly would take this issue with a neighbour over noise nuisance any day of the week. I have a lot of noise to make early at the weekend after being kept up tol 2.30am due to the selfish f*cks.

I'm not sure Sting will be that interested, to be honest.

You and one other neighbour need to go round to talk to her. She may not realise the disruption she's causing (though I suspect not). Try an olive branch and if this doesn't work, report her to the council!!

Don’t get too excited about permits. I’m in South London and we had a bin reserver almost opposite my house and always used to remove them (hassle as we know).

We got permits (hurrah - or so I thought ) but they only made it between 9am and 11am every day which is pointless and not at all what most people put forward when asked in the consultation .

The only thing that has changed is that I now pay over £300 a year Instead of nothing to get or sometimes not get a space near my house almost exactly as before.

The bin reserver hasn’t stopped and with so many people working flexibly the 9-11am slot (as we live a 10 minute walk from a station) doesn’t really change a lot. People still park on my road all day and evening (apart from 9-11) to use the shops near my house so it’s no easier to park than it ever was.

My neighbour does this, but not bins. He has a car and a work van, and his girlfriend (who doesn't live with him) also parks here. He'll put his placeholder down if he moves his car or van, or if its the girlfriends car he'll reverse his into her space (oo-er) and put his placeholders in his space. He's been doing it for decades, but mysteriously lately has been doing it selectively so we're wondering if he's had an official complaint. He's actually taking up all the space outside our house, but we access from the side and keep telling ourselves it's a mental illness and not worth getting annoyed about it as we usually get a space nearby. We're also planning on selling soon, so not worth having to declare falling out with a neighbour!

Id send her bins into another postcode! 😂

When we lived in a similar road, we had a neighbour with 3 cars who parked them with a gap between and would then take the handbrake off and roll them to create a space for the third.
Reffered to by everyone as the cunts

Keep complaining. And take photos.

Id also be tempted to take her bins for a walk every time she leaves them there.