He doesn't have too as long as the property's primary use is still a dwelling Jim.

Its no different to me working full time from home in a dedicated office.

If you have a full time job as an employee but work on cars in your spare time you should fill out a self assessment for tax reasons but only if you earn over £2k per year from it iirc.

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Just tell the council that you run a part time business from your home that you believe is allowed under your permitted development rights; I really dont think there is anything they can do about it

If any tax questions come up simply state that you can demonstrate that you earn less than £2k a year and therefore don’t have to declare it.

Ask them for proof of what you've supposed to have been doing, as said previously you've only been maintaining your 'old' cars, and helping out a few friends with rear beams because u have the 'correct tools'. Then u could always hide a few bits at your brothers and invite them round to show them that nothing dodgy is going on. keep it simple.

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Pain in the arse all this pal

maintaining your own cars is a hobby as far as I'm concerned.

Your garage and drive are well hidden too,between yours and your bruvs house,really can't see how you effect any of your neighbours at all.



As above on our estate,no business use what so ever allowed from residential property.

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You are legally alound to start work at 7am till 11pm, i am a landscape gardener and where possible try not to use any loud machinery before 8am, on Mon however we had to clear 6 tree's before the builders were turning up with a digger, 7.50am i start the chain saw, within 3 mins i had a neighbour around going mental at me, i had printed what it states on the goverment website about noise pollution clearly stating the above times, i showed it to the lady and she walked off lol.

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ye i was pretty sure it was 11pm. i changed my struts one night when i got home after midnight, i live in a culdesac, and thankfully not a word was mentioned.

had hassle once out at my mates work shop. and we had a half hour long argument with this stupid bint that was sure it was a 9pm cut off.

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Spend to date on parts £827.88

This is complete bo***cks. How can anyone stop you from your hobby!? As long as your being reasonable with the amount of noise you make and the time you work then what the hell is the problem. I would be going mad if this happened to me, hope you can get it sorted mate.

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Firstly, please note I completely agree with you that it's overly heavy-handed and they're going about it the wrong way.

However, think if you were the neighbour - all you know is that there's a guy next door making a racket and possibly running a business he's not meant to be. My neighbour's dog never stops barking and that p**ses me off enough, I can only imagine what an air compressor must be like.

What's a shame is that they didn't just talk to you - if my neighbour came over and said look, your compressor's too loud, can you do something about it then I'd be fine with that - it can probably be built into a box for very little money, everyone's happy.

Councils however can't be bothered with getting into details and chats between people though, they'll just be hoping you accept their letter and shut the hell up, even though they probably know you won't.

They shouldn't threaten you, but you also shouldn't make loads of noise and p**s off your neighbours, that's not fair on them. The problem is that whilst rebuilding beams isn't your sole income, you do make profit from it - as soon as you're doing that it's no longer a hobby.

Whether you're doing anything illegal or not is yet to be seen, but you should perhaps consider what you can do to improve things for your neighbours - if they know you're a reasonable person (assuming you are) then they'd talk to you rather than the council next time, and you'll be free to carry on doing what you're doing unhindered.

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Different problems, perhaps.

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Subtle, but effective.

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Depends, you never said "stab neighbour to death", you said "stab neighbour". Expect a follow-up letter from the council stating that now not only do you have an angry neighbour but now you have an angry neighbour with a kitchen devil sticking out of their leg.

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Well that's exactly it - sometimes he's just barking at seemingly nothing, sometimes it's at the fence but sometimes he's on his phone, and I'm pretty sure he's barking at a sales department abroad somewhere, but I can't really hear the details.



That's exactly my point - your neighbour just sees your working on cars half the time (which would be a *lot* for a hobby) and reasonably assumes it's your job, which it kinda is. If my neighbour made loads of noise outside my house doing far more work than could ever be just more than DIY I'd be p**sed off and would want them to shut the hell up.

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