Wheely Bins Left out on the pavements

[karpar]

Hi

At the top end of Dunstans Road the pavements are cluttered with wheely bins which are left on the pavement all week. This makes it difficult to walk along if you want to walk two abreast, have young children and buggies or certain disabilities. Pavements are for pedestrians not bins, surely...

I'm not sure why the residents do this as they all have front gardens of a decent size. I live on the section of Dunstans between Goodrich Road and Peckham Ryeand although we have more modest gardens, an all of us still squeeze our bins in.

[rendelharris]

Something of a pet peeve...we put our bins out as late as possible the night before collection and the binmen are very good at putting them back inside our gate, but at least 80% of houses on our street just leave them out all week, when they have plenty of space to keep them inside their boundaries. It's massively inconsiderate and selfish not to.

[cohen22]

Gosh. Isn't life hard sometimes. Hey ho it's Monday tomorrow!

[rendelharris]

cohen22 Wrote:

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> Gosh. Isn't life hard sometimes. Hey ho it's

> Monday tomorrow!

Harder than it needs be for elderly and disabled people who have trouble navigating the urban environment because of other people's lazy selfishness, yes.

[Quia Differt]

rendelharris Wrote:

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> Something of a pet peeve...we put our bins out as

> late as possible the night before collection and

> the binmen are very good at putting them back

> inside our gate, but at least 80% of houses on our

> street just leave them out all week, when they

> have plenty of space to keep them inside their

> boundaries. It's massively inconsiderate and

> selfish not to.

Absolutely Spot On.

[uncleglen]

Add to that the selfish idiots who take up a third of the pavement with their perfectly manicured privet....especially if there is a tree outside their property- and you're lucky to pass through in single file!

[ed26]

The council put notices on all the lamp posts in our street, asking residents to be considerate and move their bins back inside their properties. The regular offending household continued to leave their bin out, leaving too little space between the bin and the lamp post to get a push chair / wheel chair / tartan shopping trolley / fat person through. Still, they are the same household that regularly scrapes / bangs other cars when parking their massive estate car, so I doubt that a few notices are going to appeal to their sense of being good neighbours.

[KidKruger]

just chuck the bin over their front wall.

every week.

[adonirum]

uncleglen Wrote:

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> Add to that the selfish idiots who take up a third

> of the pavement with their perfectly manicured

> privet....especially if there is a tree outside

> their property- and you're lucky to pass through

> in single file!

and don't even get Louisa started on buggies..................

[peckham_ryu]

IIt?s very generous of the neighbours to offer their bins for public use. My own are completely full right now, but nearby pavement bins are taking they strain :-)