To feel like I live on an industrial estate?

[sofreakingnoisy]

Names changed in case I can be outed and cause a neighbourhood feud!
Background - live on pleasant road in a housing estate. No crime or antisocial behaviour.
Problem - new sets of neighbours have moved in both sides and suddenly it feels like I'm living on an industrial estate.
One side - carpet fitter, out fiddling in his van from 6am every day. Sliding doors open and shut, moving massive rolls of carpet around, engine running for ages, big delivery van delivering his carpet for the day before 7am most days which means more Diesel engines running, more door slamming and sliding, knocking on doors, talking etc.
Other side - builder. Keeps his tools in the garage or house, so every morning at 6-6.30am he's opening and closing van and garage doors, walking up and down, clattering tools in the back of his van.
His wife does beauty therapies from home too so until 9pm most nights there's extra cars, people talking at her door, doors opening and closing.
Both neighbours have huge vans which they park on their drives either side of my car (think row of town houses with garages underneath and parking out the front) so I struggle to get off my drive either reversing or driving forward as I can't see round them so I have near misses every single day.
AIBU to think that I don't live on an industrial estate so shouldn't be woken every single morning at 6am? Starting to lose my rag but I can't exactly ask them not to work.

Move house?

You get woken up even tho you have double glazed windows shut and curtains drawn?

Ear plugs and an eye mask might help you

Have you mentioned that they are waking you up? Obviously they're entitled to be getting ready for work but if they don't know they're disturbing you how can they make the effort to quieten down?

It's absolutely boiling here. Plus town houses seem to be well insulated so we sleep with windows open. Do have a black out blind down tho. And no to earplugs as 2 under 3s that wake regularly so earplugs wouldn't work. I know they're entitled to get ready for work, but the carpet fitter in particular getting carpet delivered at 6.30am on a residential estate seems a bit too much like turning your house into a carpet shop to me. The lorries that deliver it have to reverse out of our road too so scream "vehicle reversing" and beep ridiculously loudly.

I know it's their livelihood, but when you move to a quiet residential street you don't expect it to be like you're stuck between 2 commercial properties!

Don't know what the planning laws are where you live but here you need planning permission to use a premises for commercial purposes. The builder would be fine but the carpet deliveries would probably, and the beauty therapies would definitely, require permission.

I'm not saying you should report them, but if, after a polite chat asking them to be more considerate, nothing changes, you could mention they need planning permission (obviously check first!).

You could ask the builder to be a bit quieter. If it's his wife doing the beauty therapies, then he has reason to stay on your good side.

I did wonder re the rules. Not planning on reporting them, just wish they'd be a bit quieter. The carpet fitter even has a local shop but it must be easier for him to get carpet delivered to his house? Not sure why. They both cause a racket anyway.

Reversing onto your drive will be safer than reversing off.

Contacting the local authority to discuss planning permission to run a business from home is definitely the way forward. It's exactly disruption and noise like this which business use planning permission is needed for, so that controls can be put in place to minimise disruption to neighbours.

At the end of our road, there was a couple who were running a big ebay site and were getting regular deliveries each day and then the post office van came to pick up parcels late afternoon. Someone (not us), reported them to the council and they were refused planning permission as they couldn't meet the requirements imposed to limit delivery van numbers and times (as they had no control over when their deliveries would arrive from suppliers), so they had to rent a lock up on an industrial estate instead.