Bin location

I've lived in our apartment as an owner occupier for the last few years. For most of that time the bins have been located on the street level, the median strip I think it's called, just outside of the surrounding wall of the apartment block.This has been much the same for the whole street.

A few months ago the council decided that they were no longer happy to have bins on the pavement and as such throughout the whole street bins are back within the apartment blocks. I can agree that it's good that the council are finally enforcing their own rules, and that it generally increases the quality of the area, however there is a problem.

Due to poor planning, our apartment block does not have a safe and easily accessible area for the bins to go. The waste contractors started putting the bins within our apartment block area, but on an uneven surface which is a part of the front garden which is on a steep (45 degree) angle. Essentially accessing the bins is a very precarious business and a slight fall could result in serious injuries. Due to health and safety concerns I contacted the council who refused to grant us permission to return the bins to outside the apartment block area. The council arranged for the waste contractors to visit the area and I was forwarded a copy of their report which essentially heavily criticised any suggested areas that we made for the bins to go, on the basis of poor lighting (we'd be happy to install lights) and poor access – they'd have to move the bins up a long flight of stairs, which of course we're able to sympathise with. The upshot being that the waste contractors advised that the bins remained in the new area, despite them acknowledging the area as being a safety hazard.

I've contacted the strata body and they seem to have acknowledged the issue as an issue and arranged for a builder to provide a quote, with a solution being to concrete the uneven area which would cost several thousands of dollars.We have a low sinking fund, with other issues prioritised and a tendency for other owners not to want to spend money.

In the meantime, and this is perhaps the issue that I would most like some light shined on, the bins have been moved from their new area to a slightly different area which is still on an uneven surface, but much less so, and as such is perhaps not an immediate health and safety concern. The problem with this new location is that it's directly outside of our bedroom window – albeit several feet away, and when we purchased the apartment this was not the case. We don't mind having the bins there as a temporary solution, but we're very concerned that this new location will become a permanent location which we will not be happy with, and are concerned that it was cause both a nuisance to ourselves (noise of people using the bins), and ultimately lower the value of our apartment.

I was hoping to get some advice / assistance in regards to identifying where the currently allocated area for the bins to go is, and if we have any position to argue that the bins should not go in an area which we feel impacts on ourselves and the value of our property.

It can also be noted that we're not the only apartment block in the street to be facing such issues as several of the apartment blocks now have their bins in their steep and narrow driveways, presumably making driving in and out of the car park area very precarious. I've also note that one apartment block on the street continues to have bins on the street, although they clearly do have safe and accessible areas within their block.