Hi all
My neighbour is starting to make a fuss about me having my mini digger and tractor parked at the rear of my house. I just wondered how I stand legally, am I liable for business rates etc. as most gardening/tree surgery businesses I know are run from home, with equipment stored in the grounds of the house. Including the two houses nearest to my neighbour and I, one has a ag contracting business and so stores most of the associated machinery outside his house and the neighbour in the other direction has a groundworks business and stores his equipment at his house.
It just grates a little as I have lived next to these people for 5 years and they've been more than happy to ask to borrow equipmment and ask me to do a favour, such as taking down trees for them, catching moles and mowing grass whilst they're on hols etc etc.
I think the best one was when last summer the lady of the house next door said she "didnt like looking at the top of the mini digger that she could see over the garden fence from her kitchen window and could I pay to store it somewhere else" then in the same breath she said...."we're going to build a carport and of course we'll need to borrow your digger to dig the holes for the posts!" I could believe my ears!!
