Neighbour running hairdressers from her house

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My neighbour is a hairdresser, she has a salon in town which is obviously closed at the moment. I’ve noticed lots of cars coming and going to hers over the last few weeks which has annoyed me but I’ve not said or done anything just carried on following the lockdown rules. I was putting the bins out last week and she had her back door open and I thought I could have seen someone sitting in her kitchen with a hairdressing gown on but then one of the DC shouted me and I thought no more of it, but it’s particularly warm here today and she has her back door open and we’ve been in the garden all morning and I’ve seen 2 people come stay about an hour and leave. She sweeps up kitchen in between, I’m assuming they’re having their hair cut but don’t know for sure. She lives with her partner who is bald so it wasn’t him I saw with hairdressing gown on. Should I report her to someone, have a word with her? No previous issues, normal neighbourly interactions.

If she was my neighbour I'd be round there booking in....

Shop her, she's married to an accountant, so she's bound to be on the fiddle.

Thanks for all the responses. I obviously don’t know what she is or isn’t claiming, and I hadn’t even considered the tax and potential fraud side of it.
I have no idea about her financial position I was simply concerned about the potential spread of the virus. As I said I desperately need my hair doing but it is absolutely not an essential and I’m of the mindset that we should all do our best to avoid any potential risk. I’m a frontline NHS worker who spends 12 plus hours in PPE but manage to scrape my hair into a bun that does the job just fine. And she certainly hasn’t offered me a haircut and I doubt she will be anytime soon!

Where is she based? Can she fit me in on Thursday?

You've made some massive assumptions here, that she's taking money and her "customers" are there for vanity reasons

It's irrelevant whether she is charging them or not - it's still illegal.
There are no other reasons for a haircut other than vanity.

Report her.
If her actions spread the virus then it puts other people at risk and extends the length of the lockdown.

Mind your own business

Don't, for gods sake, report her to 111. They are quite busy at the moment. Not to mention it's not exactly their remit.

What has your job got to do with it?

Wow I am actually shocked by the responses here. Do people actually not understand what we have been asked to do and the reasons for it? Oh it’s fine multiple people going in and out of this woman’s house then going shopping and home to their house all potentially spreading it around. This does affect us all, those people dying from it caught it from somewhere, the people who have lost income or their jobs, those who can’t see family and loved ones, we are all affected by this and it’s people like her and all of you saying it doesn’t matter and continuing to spread it that makes the lockdown effect last longer for everyone. And the PP who said it doesn’t matter because there are spare NHS beds and we are all going to catch it anyway how selfish can people get ffs really?!

I live in a terraced house and one side has had their friends and their kids over on and off over this lockdown period. Today they've been tAlking really loudly and the kids have been running riot it probably only went quiet at 9:30 tonight. I had to keep the windows shut as I couldn't concentrate on my work earlier.
I felt like reporting them and looked online about it and it turns out I've got to put my details in first, I have a completely clean record but don't fancy doing that (I don't know why).
People are frustrating, at least if your breaking the rules be quiet about it!

Excellent work on the drip feed, OP.

Mind your own business. People know the risks that they take, we’re all adults & need to stop the “tattle tale”-like behaviour that this lockdown has caused. People are acting like children.

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‘Businesses and venues’, ‘shops and public premises’. Which of these in particular do you think refers to people working from home?

You are not allowed to mix with people who aren't in your household (living with you). The only exception to this is if you are caring for someone and you need to use PPE and maintain social distancing where you can.

Cutting the hair of people you do not live with does not fall into this category.

The people coming are obviously not people who are being careful generally, and your neighbour has to be within 2 m of a large number of such people. If she catches it and is asymptomatic she could be giving it to a lot of people.

I don't know what is best re reporting but I don't think its that low risk.

Mind your own business. People know the risks that they take, we’re all adults & need to stop the “tattle tale”-like behaviour that this lockdown has caused. People are acting like children.

That is ridiculous, I am sorry. By all means say don't report, and there may be various reasons for that. I might not report myself in OP's situation, I don't know.

But the idea that those who do report are child like snitches is ludicrous. This is everyone's business. Anyone could get sick, obviously. But also what about all the hairdressers who are not doing this and are losing money, and all the other businesses? What about all the people who are staying at home alone for weeks for the greater good? The longer people like this neighbour keep the transmission going, the longer till all these other people will be able to resume their livelihoods.

Yes report.

From what I have seen locally and read, people who are breaking lockdown rules are not just doing it in one way, so only just this once for their super special haircut, but are much more likely to bending and breaking them in any other ways that suit them too, and so if they do catch it they'll spread it before anyone notices. Its a cluster waiting to happen.

I took so long to type that I cross posted with Inkpaperstars!

@TARSCOUT apart from being morally reprehensible, what you suggest is called doxing and is illegal in the UK.

Chardonnay what drip feed?

One of my best friends is a hairdresser. I'd love my hair cutting but there's no way I'd ask her or allow her to if she offered. (she hasn't!)

Likewise one if my neighbours is a hairdresser, havent seen any cars coming and going from her house.

Your neighbour and her clients sound irresponsible. Would I report? Probably.

These threads are so fucking tedious ..

OP - I've seen some one doing something which is probably against the law.. should I report ? Because we are trying to stop a PANDEMIC. Where EVERYONE should be doing their part..

MN : MYOB (despite PUBLIC health being all our business) .. followed by a gizzillon posts discussing the minutiae of the legislation.. does not salons mean no hairdressing from your kitchen ?

FFS THIS IS NOT HARD.

Was the legislation bought in to law because THE SALON PREMISES was considered more likely to spread the virus OR the close contact with others. ?

It's not fucking rocket science. Should she be running a salon from her kitchen in a pandemic NO she shouldn't. The close contact with others who are not members of her household is against all guidance . The people coming to her house are not engaged in an essential journey.

The longer people fuck around like this. The longer it goes on. The longer it goes on - the longer it has to kill YOU or YOUR LOVED ONE.

How much more 'YOUR BUSINESS' can that possibly be. ?

The "I'm a frontline NHS worker and I manage to scrape my hair in a bun' one. .

Why do people keep saying 'this will go on for longer if people take this piss'. No it won't.

The police are issuing fines for people who are breaking the lockdown rules. She could be symptom free and passing the virus onto her clients, who in turn are passing it to their families. This is just as likely as her being selfless in providing free haircuts for frontline workers to be more comfortable in their PPE.

Oh wait- it’s actually more likely.

Does your area have a tool for reporting of breach of coronavirus measures? you can do it anonymously (where it wants an email address just put something like noreply@noreply-com. Then your local force can decide if they have got capacity to deal with it.

If you know her personally I would be sending her links to all of the research about microdroplets hanging around in the air for a while after people have been talking and also telling her what you are witnessing on the frontline. Asking people in to sit in the same chair in the same space and not know what you might be carrying is like sleeping with multiple people without a condom it seems to me.
Similar to the counsellor above who says they are still seeing people. Unless your client base is people at serious risk of harm or self-harm who have no private place to conduct phone or online therapy. Thinking you still need to see your clients is self-entitled behaviour. All of the mental health teams in my area other than crisis have gone over to online/phone etc and it is working well. I have been helping a charity that is getting mobiles to disadvantaged clients who did not have their own.