Is my neighbor committing benefit fraud

Wils24

I purchased a house and an aggressive Polish neighbor rents a property for a £1000pm next door, and he is unemployed, well he doesn’t go to work officially. I know because he is at home all the time working on different cars for the past year on his driveway. It’s a non stop business, he’s had over 40-50 cars that I’ve seen.

I tried being nice and told him he was disturbing me, but he was not interested and became aggressive.
He buys, fixes and sells cars right from my front door. He trespasses on my driveway with his friends and customers. Litter, unnecessary Exhaust fumes & engine revs/running for hours, bonnets open all day. Doors slamming, His full time presence near my window is really effecting me and I am so stressed and sick of it.

The council are not doing anything really, they write to him, he stops for a week then starts again. His landlord doesn’t care and will not answer my mail. I do have cctv footage

What could I do?
How much would an injection cost? truthfully is the injection effective or can that be ignored too? because this guy is not the worried about anything type. He just doesn’t care.

I’m furious because this guy is laughing at our system and he seems to be getting away with it.

I would appreciate any advice

Poppy9

Speak to your local councillor about the lack of action from the council. If he is running a business they normally come down quite quickly on them.

Aside from that you can inform the inland revenue and DWP via their fraud lines.

mhmmhm

Do you know that this chap is even claiming benefits?

d123

Wils24 wrote: »

How much would an injection cost? truthfully is the injection effective or can that be ignored too? .

What kind of injection do you want? A sedative to calm your nerves or something stronger :D.

Poppy9

Is this the same house with the neighbour with the caravan?

paddedjohn

mhmmhm wrote: »

Do you know that this chap is even claiming benefits?

Regardless of that he is running a business from home.

19lottie82

How do you know he claims benefits? How do you know his house costs £1000 PCM? And what does him being polish have to do with it?

Naf

paddedjohn wrote: »

Regardless of that he is running a business from home.

There's nothing illegal about that at all.
If there's a clause in his tenancy agreement, the OP says that the LL doesn't care anyway.
So as long as he is registered with IR and not claiming benefits he's not entitled to its fine.

OP, what actually makes you think this is dodgy? Because he is self employed and works from home (perfectly legit); or because he aggravates you in some way so you feel he must be doing something wrong. You're perfectly within your right to report your suspicions; but nothing you have said immediately indicates any wrongdoing on his part - with the possible exception of 'trespassing on your driveway', and it really depends what you mean by that. Is it a shared drive and you mean they sometimes walk a little across 'your half' to get to his; or are they actually standing talking right in front of your house rather than his?

MobileSaver

Naf wrote: »

There's nothing illegal about that at all.
So as long as he is registered with IR and not claiming benefits he's not entitled to its fine.

Sorry but this is totally incorrect; it is illegal as the neighbour clearly does not have the necessary planning permission.

Anyone can normally run a quiet admin-type business from home that doesn't affect any neighbours but a retail business that causes a disturbance such as noise and smells requires explicit permission.

OP as others have said contact your local councillor and pressure the council into taking proper enforcement action. Good luck.

Kayalana99

Naf wrote: »

There's nothing illegal about that at all.
If there's a clause in his tenancy agreement, the OP says that the LL doesn't care anyway.
So as long as he is registered with IR and not claiming benefits he's not entitled to its fine.

Not actally true some houses aren't allowed to run a business from home. We've just purchased ours and our solictor told us we aren't allowed because its been made as a family home.

Hopefully this doesnt include my Ebay business but I wont be having cars outside all time just my little office. :beer:

mhmmhm

paddedjohn wrote: »

Regardless of that he is running a business from home.

I run a business from home. That doesn't make me a benefits cheat. And the council, HMRC, insurance co and mortgage co are all perfectly happy with the arrangement.