legal to operate taxi firm from home?

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chap in the next road (council estate) who has recently moved into the area appears to be running a taxi firm from his own home address

he has approx 2 licenced cabs on his driveway and also keeps a licensed people carrier for airport runs which he parks in my road (non council estate). the vehicle often swop places with his other vehicles etc.

i don't really have a problem with him parking the vehicle during the day as theirs lots of room to park in the road. however, i have been woken up in the early hours of the morning i.e 2am/ 3am when he goes off to do airport runs. this has so far happened on 2 occasions in the last couple of weeks but i have only recently twigged that the vehicle is used for airport work amd hence expect this to be a regular issue.

was wondering if what he is doing is legal i.e operating a commercial transport business on a housing estate.

anyone had any experience with this?
 
god!!! sometimes you english like to complain. Of course its legal, and how do you hear a car start in the middle of the morning? Are your windows made of paper?
 
He could be breaking planning regulations by running commercial operations from a residential area. A local taxi place near me was shut down because of it.
 
you get woken up by passing cars and you chose to live on a road? or is the "peaople carrier" acutally a heavily modified panzer tank
 
he's only really storing the vehicals there
a guy along the road used to have 5 taxis, but he rented them out, and wasnt running his company from his house as the call centre was based somewhere else and he was employed but them.
it would be like you working for a delivery company and keeping the van over night at your house.
 
aproctor said:
why don't you just ask him polietly to keep it down w/out sounding condesending etc...or be extra subtle use his firm when you need a taxi then bring it up.
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i have spoken to his son on the phone and have emailed him about the noise problem.

nice idea about hiring his services and bringing up the issue. i think face to face is probably the best wayof dealinfg with it.
 
I think he's bieng reasonable, he is creating noise more often that someone would usually.

Compliain to your council.
 
jamoor said:
I think he's bieng reasonable, he is creating noise more often that someone would usually.

Compliain to your council.
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twice in how long?

he makes no more noise than someone going to work at 2 am...

It's a car starting, gee people love to complain about everything..
 
Round here there are literally HUNDREDS of taxi firms operated from homes. Anyone from Middlesbrough will tell you that. Some streets are overrun by taxis parked outside their owner's homes.

Mind you there are far better things to wake you up round this neck of the woods, such as neighbours shouting at each other in the street, bottles being smashed over someone's head (for seemingly no reason), car and house alarms going off (this only happens to houses where people are not in, so nobody to turn the b*******s off. My wife is usually stirred by these things, I am not.

Fortunately, I've moved to a nicer area about 4 years ago. But I do know what you're talking about and how annoying it can become. Talk to him in person and agree on a reciprocal solution for the pair of you.
 
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I have neighbour's dog playing with his empty sauce pan (which is used as his bowl. Stupid neighbour does not feed their pet properly) everyday from 3am in the morning. So you constantly get this noise coming from back garden, as the chain that chains the dog kept on hitting the sauce pan.

I think that's quite bad :p
 
as long as the cars are licenced i don't see there being any problems as long as they are not blocking other peoples properties.
 
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