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

This is a great idea! I can’t believe anyone would care about 3 different cars parking on your driveway to charge during the day or “comings and goings” … whatever next are supermarket and Amazon and parcel deliveries going to be reported too???

Maybe they should get an EV point installed and cash in as well :)

I can assure you the government aren’t looking to charge people business rates for a domestic charger. That would be like charging business rates for people who rent out their drive, or sell Avon from their porch. The rateable value would be so small they would all qualify for small business rates relief anyway. Valuing the chargers, applying the relief etc would cost far more in admin than anyone gained revenue.

Anything valued for rates at under £12k (ie would realistically have a commercially viable rent of £1k per month) is not worth the admin.

Reminds me of my former next door neighbours who used to apologise if it had taken them more than hour to get their bin in after emptying on bin by saying “sorry you had to look at our bin for so long.” I used to tell them that I was too busy to spend my days staring out of the window but apologizing for making me look at their bin and a few other things was very common. Ridiculous! As is your neighbour OP.

There’s mild annoyance and there’s threatening to report to the council! It’s no different to people parking by your house - sure it’s irritating but not illegal. I’m annoyed they’re installing speed bumps on my estate. It’s annoying, but it is what it is. I’m annoyed there are kids outside my house playing until 10pm now it’s getting warmer but it’s not illegal and they can do as they please.

It’s not their driveway, they have no ownership, it’s not illegal. Deal with it.

Nice idea. People with a life wouldn’t notice nor care. I imagine she sits at home most of the time to obsess over this, and to be around to witness the smoking and lewd remark! Our NDN’s are like this and would honestly have a hissy fit if we did this. They bought a second car they don’t use purely to park it in front of their house. Some people need to get out more.

So professional ev drivers are welcome, as long as none of the pesky riff raff from estates local to you show up. How rude.

The 'riff-raff' from the local estates tend, in my personal view and experience, to be far less judgmental and better neighbours than people like you, OP.

That comment says a lot about you. Nasty and unnecessary.

My former NDN used to do hairdressing from home, so had people coming and going all day. It never bothered me at all!

As an early EV implementer, I used driveway charging on a few occasions, mostly when travelling for work and near hotels and workplaces before the charging network was mature - hotels almost never had chargers in the early days. Zapmap used to have a rental option and it was an absoute godsend, those few who allowed access to their home chargers. I think one of the main charger suppliers offered it in their app - ?Podpoint maybe. I have also used Your Parking Space to access parking on driveways.

To the people who do this - I appreciate you.

Exactly… the horror of endless streams of carers, which are often more than three times a day including the evening….

They just willy nilly walk near other peoples houses!

There is even an app for this - where you can rent out your home charger.

oh gosh! That's a rather sweeping statement.

You need to increase your marketing and set up a booking site so people can reserve charging spots. Once you’ve earned back the cost of installation, install a 2nd charger (if your driveway allows)

I hope no one in your street needs a carer... they often visit multiple times a day. Imagine the outrage of these strangers parking in your street. Dont get me started on cleaners, dog walkers, delivery drivers...The stress!

Don’t your neighbours ever have visitors?

Three a day- during business hours. It’s not really so unsociable, is it?

Can I just ask why? A person parking next door and walking to their office would upset you?

I don't think I'd be overjoyed at a regular stream of random people coming and going outside my house, so I can see why the neighbours aren't happy.

You and me both! Three cars would drive people mad!?!

I'm amazed so many people would be upset by 3 people over the course of one day, drive onto a neighbours drive, plug in their vehicle and walk to the office. I doubt I would even notice! I think its a brilliant idea.

I wouldn't like the extra cars and strangers coming and going near my home so I'm with your neighbours.

I am surprised most people think yabu, its no different to renting out your driveway. Your neighbours are batshit.

You are plain nasty.

That’s genius! I have a large drive but sadly no offices nearby who could use it!

But why? Surely your neighbour can have who they want visit and on their drive?