Soldato
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Good evening all.
My friend owns her own massage/beauty therapy salon which has its own little car parking area (only 4 parking spaces but it's enough). The car park is next to a pub which has recently changed landlord.
For the last few weeks, she has had increasing amounts of smashed glass from the pub (smashed pint glasses, beer bottles, shot 'test tubes' mostly). She has had to sweep up the glass on several occasions. She knows that her car park is her responsibility to keep safe, she runs Baby Massage classes and toddler groups so often has little ones in and out of the building who she obviously needs to ensure don't fall in a load of glass!
As the pub is open when her salon is not, she doesn't see the landlord very often. She did speak to him about it a couple of weeks back, to which he apologised and said he would sort it. Nothing happened; the glass continued to be smashed in her parking area. She has since put two notes through the door asking them to do something about it, to no avail.
She rang the council today who basically said that as it was her car park, it's her responsibility and they aren't going to have anything to do with it. Not a very helpful response, but she didn't know if the council was the right place to ring in the first place, it was worth a go.
Is there anything she can do? Does anyone have any ideas for her next steps? If she sends them a more formal letter, does anyone have anything of weight that she can put in it, e.g. do licencing laws cover things like protecting others' property? If the customers are drinking in her car park, does this mean that they are technically not on the pub's premises, therefore the pub is in breach of its licence?
I know it might not seem like a big thing but having to sweep up glass all the time is really getting to her!
My friend owns her own massage/beauty therapy salon which has its own little car parking area (only 4 parking spaces but it's enough). The car park is next to a pub which has recently changed landlord.
For the last few weeks, she has had increasing amounts of smashed glass from the pub (smashed pint glasses, beer bottles, shot 'test tubes' mostly). She has had to sweep up the glass on several occasions. She knows that her car park is her responsibility to keep safe, she runs Baby Massage classes and toddler groups so often has little ones in and out of the building who she obviously needs to ensure don't fall in a load of glass!
As the pub is open when her salon is not, she doesn't see the landlord very often. She did speak to him about it a couple of weeks back, to which he apologised and said he would sort it. Nothing happened; the glass continued to be smashed in her parking area. She has since put two notes through the door asking them to do something about it, to no avail.
She rang the council today who basically said that as it was her car park, it's her responsibility and they aren't going to have anything to do with it. Not a very helpful response, but she didn't know if the council was the right place to ring in the first place, it was worth a go.
Is there anything she can do? Does anyone have any ideas for her next steps? If she sends them a more formal letter, does anyone have anything of weight that she can put in it, e.g. do licencing laws cover things like protecting others' property? If the customers are drinking in her car park, does this mean that they are technically not on the pub's premises, therefore the pub is in breach of its licence?
I know it might not seem like a big thing but having to sweep up glass all the time is really getting to her!
