AIB a massive NIMBY?

[laweaselmys]

Everybody on our street got letters today asking us not to leave our wheelie bins on the pavement but to take them round and leave them in our gardens on non-collection days.

I know that this is pretty standard practice places, but traditionally hasn't been the case where I live. Largely because we live in a terrace with tiny gardens, terrible access to them and even plus big wheelie bins there is enough room to get a wheelchair past on the pavements no problems.

I also know that this request has been fuelled by many complaint letters from a particular neighbour who doesn't like the way the bins look but has also blocked the access to the backs of the terraces from her side so that some of her neighbours (including a lovely elderly woman with osteophrosis would have to drag their bins twice a week around twenty houses!

So, AIBU (and a massive NIMBY) to kick up a big fuss? Letters to council, volunteer street cleaning programme so the bins don't need to be moved etc...

Whereyouleftit really? That will be very useful! I have mentioned the neighbours who struggle with them, but just said they won't be moving their's, if the binmen have to help that would be extremely useful.

To be clear we don't have front yards either, just unusually wide pavements, so that their is plenty of space for bins and people.

I'm sorry there were some extremely erroneous ' in there.

Anyone remember the time when bin was usually kept in the back garden, and the binman came round every week, hoiked it up on his back to carry it round to the front (no wheels, of course) to empty it and then carry it back again? Fabulously inefficient.

OTOH, when I lived in the US we had to haul our own sacks of trash across the estate to the compactors.

By and large whatever we have now is not such a bad compromise.

OP, I just googled on "refuse collection elderly disabled" and loads of councils came up, so I reckon it must be a legal requirement on them. If you check out your council's website there should be something there I reckon.

The Disability Discrimination Act requires service providers to not discriminate against people with disabilities in how they provide their services. In practice, this ought to mean that anyone who is physically incapable of moving their wheelie bin because of their disability can arrange for the binmen to collect it from where it is kept. Actually, if that service were arranged for your elderly neighbour, you might find that the council takes up the cause of the blocked access.

call the council and tell them the access to the ally has been blocked and therefore you cannot out put the bins back.

Don't know what your solution is to the bins but I also love the photo of baby.

It's great to see young mums ae still happy to put handknitted clothes on baby. The blanket looks handknitted as well.

I guess you are going to tell me that they were purchased from a shop. They still look handknitted and cuddly.

Actually the baby looks pretty cute to