AIBU to report neighbours leaving bins blocking pavement for wheelchair access?

[Wheelchairbarbie]

This might sound petty, but hear me out.

Bin day is a Tuesday. One week the bins come early, at 7am (black, general waste) and the next week they come about 11am (green, recycling) and it alternates like that.

The people a few houses down put their bins (two of them) out on the pavement at 11am on a Monday, every week without fail. So it's up to 24 hours in advance that they are sat there.

It's a narrow street, with no dropped curbs and a high camber in the road.

I am a wheelchair user and when I'm going along the pavement, I literally can't get around the bins. I can't navigate my chair onto the road as there is no dropped curbs and the camber is so high. My options when I come across them are ot reverse up the street or wait for a passerby to help me.

This is the only route to my bus stop and I need to school runs and get to and from work.

I see them walking their dog past my house several times a day, so I know they are around after they put the bins out. I've no idea why they do it so early. They always take them back in the second the bin men have been too. Like, before they've even pulled away.

My husband has been round twice to explain the situation and ask them not to block the pavement for a whole 24 hours. They didn't answer both times even though we had seen them pull into the drive and go in, the second time he put a note through the door.

I saw them walk past at the weekend and went to the door and politely asked if they had got my husband's note and if it was OK to please note do that. They could see I'm in a wheelchair. They looked sheepish and said "Oh yeah, OK, fine" but then today... They did it again! I was stuck until a lady helped me round.

I've also seen several mums with pushchairs have to walk into the road to get round them too.

What can I do? I absolutely hate to be "that person". I just want to live my life, go to school and work and move along the street I live on with independence and feel they are being very selfish and inconsiderate.

If they won't listen to us, can we report them to the council? I am pretty sure there's is a council house. I don't want to but if I have to can l/should I? And do the council have powers?

TIA

We have the same and the same inconsiderate morons leave the bins out till Friday. Like with you our collection day is Tuesday.

Do you use an electric chair? I’d ram their bin out the way. Hopefully it falls over and they have to go pick it all up. Absolute entitled CF’ers.

people can be so bloody selfish.

report to council, and keep on at them.

I think getting in touch with your local councillor is a good idea. Where I am you can be fined for putting out the bins too early

Some people are just selfish arseholes, sadly.

I hear you. I have a 5 year old who's in a specialist wheelchair, his chair simply does not bump up and down all but the lowest of kerbs so dropped kerbs are essential for us to be able to cross the road. So many people say "Just go into the road and round it" when it comes to an obstruction on the pavement with zero understanding of just how hard that can be. Bumping up and down kerbs can also cause him pain and just makes his life in general miserable at times.

Report it. Every single time.

I didn’t mean to sound blasé, I just don’t want you to get your hopes up that the council will actually be able to do anything about it or care to bother trying - that’s just the sad reality!

Can you get an air horn? Blast it outside their house until they come and move the bins.

Speak to the council. There are rules and regulations regarding when bins are put out. Also bins should not cause an obtstruction to neighbours.

Send your husband out every Monday night to push it over onto the road or onto their property
hopefully all the contents spill out and the collectors refuse to lift or empty it

after a few weeks they might change their tune

I do, but it would just fall over and spill their rubbish everywhere, and still be in my way. They're also probably too heavy for me. They're full the whole time they are out. Taken in the second they are emptied.

I put my local councillor in my spare chair, the one that slides on a steep pavement. It was bin day. He struggled. But it said more than I could say!

How about contacting your local mp? You've been polite, now I'd report.

I would definitely report if I were you. Our council says bins can't be put out earlier than 7pm the night before, and there is an online form to fill in to report those not following the rules- yours may have something similar?
Good luck, I really hope you can get it sorted.