Neighbor breaching restrictive covenant

glasgowdan

kinger101 wrote: »

The neighbour could have been more considerate, but the vast majority of the posts of here have suggested inflammatory responses based on the insinuation that they've not been paying tax or have been breaching planning laws.

When it comes to cars and parking, many of the white middle aged of our country get extremely upset! Personally, parking is not something I ever stress about. I do have two functioning legs.

kinger101

I was going to suggest a solution to OP's problem involving putting up posters of certain TV presenters who'd fallen from grace, but I don't think many would have appreciated it given the general tone of this thread.

kerri_gt

If the customer's car is blocking your driveway when you need to get out, why can't you just knock on the door and ask them to move it? And if you don't need to go out, as annoying as it may be - what's the actual problem? Remember you have to live next door to these people and from the sounds if it, neighbours can do a lot worse than have a few customers park (I suspect briefly) in front of your access.

Davesnave

spadoosh wrote: »

Help yourself though. When my missus was coming up to labour day, i made sure i parked across my drive so i wouldnt be blocked in and could happily get to the hospital without any problems.

You were organised.

Not me.:o

I had a huge pile of concrete blocks behind the car to shift..... hundreds. Not only that, but our chosen midwife was at a wedding.

Dear Wife was on a sun lounger on the concrete slab we'd just laid with strict instructions to hang on. :rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

kerri_gt wrote: »

If the customer's car is blocking your driveway when you need to get out, why can't you just knock on the door and ask them to move it? And if you don't need to go out, as annoying as it may be - what's the actual problem? Remember you have to live next door to these people and from the sounds if it, neighbours can do a lot worse than have a few customers park (I suspect briefly) in front of your access.

Errrm...because one shouldnt need to "ask" someone to move from somewhere they aren't supposed to be parked anyway...

There is always the concern that someone told to move will take their time about it (all these "I'll just be a minute" brigade that then proceed to take rather longer than 60 seconds to move). I recently heard of an ambulance struggling to get to someone's house for them urgently - because of all the other people that had illicitly parked and were taking their time to move their vehicles out of the way.

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

You were organised.

Not me.:o

I had a huge pile of concrete blocks behind the car to shift..... hundreds. Not only that, but our chosen midwife was at a wedding.

Dear Wife was on a sun lounger on the concrete slab we'd just laid with strict instructions to hang on. :rotfl:

I bet you were popular with her that day - not!:rotfl::rotfl:

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I bet you were popular with her that day - not!:rotfl::rotfl:

It all worked-out fine.

steeeb

spadoosh wrote: »

I dont know much about a council investigation but someone calling up HMRC and saying i dont think my next door neighbour is paying (appropriate) tax would be suitable evidence to warrant an investigation.

Not only would it be costly to the business owner but its also expensive for the tax man. And theres the way tax is calculated, they might not be paying tax but also might not be liable for tax.

Seems a lot of effort and skullduggery when you can just park your own car across your drive to prevent this happening for the 20 minutes a day it might occur.

They simply check their records, if they ARE paying tax and declared as self employed the investigation will stop there?

LeedsGirl94

Hi all,
Thanks for all your replies, curious to see how it developed into a general parking debate!

A tad more info: basically it's an issue because it is every day Mon-Friday and we live in the corner of a cul-de-sac so there's no way to drive around the cars, the people who park outside their house always park in the middle which blocks the whole road. It only affects us, not other neighbors, because we are in the corner. We leave and return for work at the sameish times as people drop/collect their children and I don't understand why I have to ask permission every time I want to eneter/leave my own property. We have asked the parents many times but they're often rude to us and then continue to park in the same manner next time anyway.

Additionally many other neighbours park in the street instead of on their drives which leads us to doing a slalom in the car already; we also have purpose built visitor spaces halfway down the street enough for several cars but apparently it's too troublesome for her clients to park there. At collection time they also don't just pop in and then out, they stay inside chatting for ages by which time another client will come and park in an inconvenient spot too.

Anyway I suppose I shall have to let it be, I definitely don't want to report their business or anything but I just wish they'd be more considerate!

spadoosh

steeeb wrote: »

They simply check their records, if they ARE paying tax and declared as self employed the investigation will stop there?

If it was that simple you wouldnt get HMRC investigations where they go through every part of your accounts to ensure the correct amoutn is collected.

And you dont know how the business is run. OH could be director taking dividends with day to day management as PAYE.

It used to be the case out of tens of thousands of reports of tax fraud only very small numbers where found to be actually committing tax fraud. They dont keep the numbers now. But theres something like 30,000 public reports to HMRC a year and in 2015 there was the highest level in quite a while of convictions a whopping total of 220 people. Ok jail is last resort for tax evasion but it gives an idea as to how many people think others tax evade when the evidence suggests its not as prevalent as one thinks.

I also assume youve never had to deal with HMRC and their records? I must phone them at least every couple months after receiving letters about employees that havent been employed by us for at least several months. Theyre hardly the most efficient organisation.

Not to mention its just spiteful to spy in to someones tax affairs over whats essentially a minor parking dispute.