CF Neighbours threatening to complain to council over EV charger ‘hire’

There is not a lot that they can do but I doubt many people would be thrilled to be fair. Hard to put into words. Unsettling. Strangers coming and going in vicinity to your home. I dunno - it just feels a bit off.

I actually think this is a great idea. I have a large driveway and quite a bit of redundancy money coming my way, if I get one of the jobs I'm waiting on then I would seriously consider installing one.
Lots of people work from home. I know hairdressers, childminders, beauty therapists etc who all run their businesses from home.
If my neighbours complained I would probably reel off all the things that annoy me about them - like when they have lots of people over and block my car in.

For all those saying it's illegal, op should pay tax , its just wrong, a very quick Google brings up loads of companies that handle it all for you

https://www.goplugable.com/

https://co-charger.com/rent-my-charger/

https://www.justpark.com/uk/solutions/ev-parking

You can be annoyed about something but bothering some poor council worker with this silly admin is OTT. It’s also very likely an isolated event, not every person charging will be smoking or talking on the phone.

Your neighbours sound crazy and controlling. Most of us who live in towns have plenty of "strange" vehicles parked in our streets and many "Randoms" walking past our houses. Some even have the audacity to (legally and perfectly reasonably) have phone conversations while waiting for a lift etc..
What a ludicrous attitude, to think that a) 3 strangers on your road is an issue, and b) you should control who parks on your neighbour's driveway.
Batshit is definitely the term.

Your neighbour sounds mental.

This. I'd be peeved too. You live in a residential street and are changing the nature of the place. I'd certainly not be happy about people hanging around smoking outside and foul language.

I was with you until this. You’re charging people to use your amenities - perhaps to your neighbours you are the ‘riff raff’.

Some people just think they can control what other people do when they don't like it. They can't. They will soon realise this.

Oooh no a parking ( sort of ) thread without a diagram , I think that's against mn law isn't it .

@FootballMumm quick post a diagram it will keep everyone happy. 😁

It’s a scheme run by the electricity company, income paid to electricity account, no tax. It doesn’t affect the rateable value and no idea what planning permission would be involved.

I had no idea this was a thing but going to look at signing up now as every penny counts these days!

Doubt my neighbours would care tbh, there are always deliveries of some kind going on.

How is the neighbour a CF for pointing out loads of randoms turning up all the time?
Am sure what you're doing is legal as many have pointed out, but how are you monitoring this?
How many people are changing a day and what are those people doing whilst their car is charging?

I'm sure it would be legal to set up a car washing station in the road but I'm guessing that would piss people off after a while.

I think you're quite cheeky running this rental business from your house. You need to be paying tax on your earnings and business rates and have planning permission.

It’s all above board and organised via the electricity providers, eg Co-Charger or Octopus Community. It’s not running a business and has no tax or insurance implications. Effectively you are letting others use your charger in return for a discount on your own electricity bill.

This thread has it all.

EVs.
Curtain twitching neighbours.
A business on a residential street.
Riff raff.
Contact the council.
People confidently making up bullshit laws.

All that is missing is the diagram of the driveway with charging point.

I run a business from a domestic premises.
Plenty of people do it
What's wrong with that?

Does nobody work??? Standing twitching at the curtains seeing who’s coming and going. This is prime MN

Have you actually looked into this properly to be certain it is legal OP because there are actually a few potential problems!

1. Reselling of electricity has quite specific rules, you cannot be selling it for more than you pay for it.

2. If you have multiple “customers” each day then upon complaint by your neighbours your council could considering this a material change of use.

3. Mortgage/lease terms- are you actually allowed to run a business from the house?

Just a few off the top of my head.

Your neighbours can absolutely complain though and the council can get involved to prevent if it can be seen as a commercial rather than residential.

I would be interested in doing this. There are existing schemes where you can rent your drive out which I have used when visiting places. The small challenge with electric charging is that it usually gives you some time to kill so you are kind of standing around for a period of time, hence the twitching from the neighbours. I would still continue to do it, but I do think I would advise any users to be aware of neighbours and keep noise to a minimum. I might also limit charing to certain hours of the day.

What, if people come to your home to purchase a service? Are you sure you're sure?

Where did the OP describe every resident of the local estate as 'riff-raff'? Just that it would be a different story if it was the riff-raff element of the estate.

I live on my local estate, there are absolutely riff-raff here and much worse, vile, obnoxious, drug dealing, foul mouthed, thieving scum..

It's not all of them, theres also plenty of nice people here, but the riff-raff are the riff-raff, and my neighbours wouldn't be happy if they were hanging out on our cul-de-sac either, whereas they wouldn't even notice the nice polite folks.

Or do you think that council/housing association estates are ONLY populated by salt of the earth delightful folks?