Neighbor's bins blocking passage between our respective houses

gilbutre

The narrow passage between our houses is accessible through a locked door (we both can open it). In that corridor there's one door to a lock small debarras in my house, and one in their house. At the end of it, there's a door to my garden (no access to their garden).

For a couple years I've let them put their 2 wheelie bins against the corridor's front door because I wasn't using that corridor. But now I put my daughter's new bike in there (behind the locked door), so every time she wants to cycle she has to push the 2 bins all the way from the corridor front door to the kerb in front of the front driveways, so she can take her bike out. Pretty annoying and I'm worried it might discourage my daughter from cycling in the long run due to the extra effort involved.

Question: can the neighbor still block the corridor with their bins without my consent? I mean, this corridor isn't just mine nor just theirs so who gets the last word in a situation like this? 

Mojisola

gilbutre said:

The narrow passage between our houses is accessible through a locked door (we both can open it). In that corridor there's one door to a lock small debarras in my house, and one in their house. At the end of it, there's a door to my garden (no access to their garden).

For a couple years I've let them put their 2 wheelie bins against the corridor's front door because I wasn't using that corridor. But now I put my daughter's new bike in there (behind the locked door), so every time she wants to cycle she has to push the 2 bins all the way from the corridor front door to the kerb in front of the front driveways, so she can take her bike out. Pretty annoying and I'm worried it might discourage my daughter from cycling in the long run due to the extra effort involved.

Question: can the neighbor still block the corridor with their bins without my consent? I mean, this corridor isn't just mine nor just theirs so who gets the last word in a situation like this? 

If it's a standard right of way, neither of you can block it so no bins and no bikes.

warby68

I would imagine whatever applies to the bins will also apply to you blocking the passageway with your daughter's bike.

Even if not legally its the obvious follow on from a disgruntled neighbour if you both have access to this passage.

user1977

gilbutre said:

In that corridor there's one door to a lock small debarras 

"Storeroom", en anglais.

MaryNB

Mojisola said:

gilbutre said:

The narrow passage between our houses is accessible through a locked door (we both can open it). In that corridor there's one door to a lock small debarras in my house, and one in their house. At the end of it, there's a door to my garden (no access to their garden).

For a couple years I've let them put their 2 wheelie bins against the corridor's front door because I wasn't using that corridor. But now I put my daughter's new bike in there (behind the locked door), so every time she wants to cycle she has to push the 2 bins all the way from the corridor front door to the kerb in front of the front driveways, so she can take her bike out. Pretty annoying and I'm worried it might discourage my daughter from cycling in the long run due to the extra effort involved.

Question: can the neighbor still block the corridor with their bins without my consent? I mean, this corridor isn't just mine nor just theirs so who gets the last word in a situation like this? 

If it's a standard right of way, neither of you can block it so no bins and no bikes.

Yeah if she wants to store her bike in the back garden or in the 

user1977 said:

gilbutre said:

In that corridor there's one door to a lock small debarras 

"Storeroom", en anglais.

and use the passage for access OP has a case. But OP doesn't have right to store a bike in the passage anymore than the neighbour has to store bins across the entrance of that passage. 

Philomel

warby68 said:

I would imagine whatever applies to the bins will also apply to you blocking the passageway with your daughter's bike.

Even if not legally its the obvious follow on from a disgruntled neighbour if you both have access to this passage.

I took the OP to mean that the daughter's bike isn't kept in the passageway but in a storeroom accessed from the passageway. The bins currently sit against the door to the storeroom and it's to access that the daughter has to move them. So in theory it's just the bins blocking the passage, not the bike.

lookstraightahead

I'm taking it you only have to move one bin to get past? Legally speaking probably nothing can block it, but just put one behind the other and then the neighbours will cotton on.

or you could ask your neighbour? Is it really not possible to do that ? 

thegreenone

No help, but it sounds as though the bins are blocking a fire escape route, so really shouldn't be there.

gilbutre

Thanks all. I can confirm that the bike doesn't block the neighbor's storeroom door (thanks @user1977), and only blocks access to my garden - which I suppose is not my neighbor's problem. So the bike doesn't block anything related to the neighbor whereas their bins do block access to my gardenfrom the street.

I did ask them to put their bins somewhere else and they did so for a while, but after recently returning from vacation they moved the bins back on the passway.

I'm planning to talk to them again but obviously they'll try to stand their ground, hence my looking for some definite and objective argument I can use to settle the matter in my daughter's favor. 

Mojisola

gilbutre said:

I'm planning to talk to them again but obviously they'll try to stand their ground, hence my looking for some definite and objective argument I can use to settle the matter in my daughter's favor. 

Then you'll need both sets of deeds to see exactly what is said about the passageway.

RAS

£3 each from the Land Registry.