to not think a hairdresser working from home is a problem

[woopdedoodle]

I'm not name changing, because they already know who I am, and after yesterday so do my neighbours.

A few doors down from me a woman has opened a two seat salon in her garage. Obviously it's been closed most of the time since,she also hadn't asked planning permission. Now she has and there are two women running a campaign to shut her down.

They think she will get 5000 customers a year by car 10000 extra car journeys on our road. Before Christmas their argument was while they were home working they could see her home working .

I said I didn't see a problem, yesterday they came back and when they wouldnt leave or take no for an answer I shut the door.

I could hear them shouting outside my front door, so now all the neighbours have heard how rude I apparently am.

So AIBU to think it's not the end of the world to have a small local hairdresser, house prices are not going to plummet, and I should support the planning application.

I am not a customer BTW

@ittakes2

Does a two seat salon mean she is getting another hairdresser to work there too? My hairdresser works from home - I don't think one hairdress is an issue but two might be.

My hairdresser has two chairs but she works alone and the other seat is for family members, so it is used when I go as my husband comes along and has his hair done, other customers take their kids. I don't think two seats automatically means another hairdresser works there.

One seat by the sink and one seat by a mirror and electrical socket?

Maybe one seat is for people waiting under the dryer for their colour to set while the other seat can be used for a blow dry?

One of our neighbours runs three business from their house and it is a nightmare with cars and parking. One of the businesses is swimming lessons from their private pool which means loads of mummies bringing their kids and changing every half an hour. Some of the classes used to have 5 or 6 kids in the lessons. It's been bliss in lockdown! We also live up a private single track lane which is then gridlocked with the cars and the turning circle is parked up.

@Murinae

One of our neighbours runs three business from their house and it is a nightmare with cars and parking. One of the businesses is swimming lessons from their private pool which means loads of mummies bringing their kids and changing every half an hour. Some of the classes used to have 5 or 6 kids in the lessons. It's been bliss in lockdown! We also live up a private single track lane which is then gridlocked with the cars and the turning circle is parked up.

That’s hardly relevant or comparable.

Is she actually planning to convert the garage into proper business premises, or just run a business from her garage?

A planning application for change of use is a gateway to hell. You might have no problem with a two-seat salon, but if the garage becomes a commercial space, it can then be sold to another business that you might find more disruptive.

Parking would be the obvious reason to object. But if its only 2 seats it wont be an issue.

Sound like a right pair of Dickheads.

Loads of food for thought.

I'll keep the concept of renting chairs out to myself, it might just make my neighbours self combust.

I'm still in favour.

Setting aside the rudeness of your neighbours and their slightly suspect maths I think the issue is that someone in a residential area is trying to use their garage to run a business. That is potentially not okay (if it is a residential area) because where does this end - can everyoen start opening a business in their garage? That would totally change the nature of the area (not to mention the traffic and parking dynaic). If it is okay for her to do so then logic will dictate it will be okay for everyone else with a garage to do the same.

I just hope she's got heating and customers aren't squeezing around a car and having a 10 year old sledge falling on them from the rafters.

I’ve really noticed recently how few people seem to think about the economic impact of things, far too many people (on MN and elsewhere) think money grows on trees.

yes, people must work hard, make their own luck, but NIMBY

this hairdresser will have been without earnings for a big chunk of the last year now. who knows how many salons on commercial premises will have gone bust by the time lockdown ends? here she is doing an entirely sensible thing, creating a business with minimum overheads, which if it becomes profitable, will enable her to take on other staff, creating jobs and wealth, possibly she will then move to larger premises and take on more staff, creating even more wealth. My boss started out doing hair in her bathroom or at people's houses 7 years ago, and now she employs two stylists and we desperately, desperately need to recruit a receptionist and a junior when we reopen. the neighbour isn't going to cram loads and loads of staff and clients into a tiny garage, that would be just stressful and claustrophobic. the business will either tick over as a small operation, or she'll move premises as the business grows.

Wouldn't want a business run next to me for all sorts of reasons, including the setting of a precedent
Equally wouldn't want a posse of intimidating anti business petitioners telling me what to think and do.

I heard a childminding business opened up in a house next to one I used to own. Thank goodness I'd moved in time - a garden full of kids yelping every summer just over the fence and a heap of cars coming and going, including the nursery staff.

I’ve really noticed recently how few people seem to think about the economic impact of things, far too many people (on MN and elsewhere) think money grows on

Yes usually the ones who think lockdown should last the next 35 years.

One of the worst planning applications I ever had the pleasure of dealing with was for a hairdresser who set up at home. Her neighbours were horrendous (although she wasn’t that pleasant either). She got permission with some conditions and everyone lived happily ever after. But a nasty number of months for all involved