Neighbour's son working from home

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Sorry if I sound harsh but I don't think that my neighbour's son should be running a dog grooming business out of my neighbour's home in a residential area.
He has people coming and going all day and into the evening. The shed he has built to hold the bathing, drying, grooming gear is just the other side of the dividing fence and so close to my back door that I can hear the whole conversations he has with customers as they all shout over the equipment. He is using the mains water (they are not on water meter as my neighbour has lived next door for many years), all day and it runs down the street. His business is registered to both his flat and my neighbour's house, but my covenant says I am not allowed to run a business from my home so I presume my neighbour is the same! (I may be wrong - but you can tell I am annoyed).
We have lived next door for about 4 years now and I have not complained. There is no house the other side as my neighbour lives on the corner and the visiting customers park in the side road.

Recently, however, our dog has taken exception to the visitors and barks a lot more than usual and for longer. i try and keep him in but he loves being outside. The dog groomer came round to ask me to keep my dog quiet or keep him in the house as his barking was disturbing his mother!!!
I am fuming and wondered what other's think about the pest that self-employed make of themselves in what should be a residential area?
So far I have just apologised for my dog but my husband is mad as heck at the cheek and he is building up to defcon so I wanted some help with what others think.

Has he got Planning Permission.
I can totally understand your concerns.

Title covenant not always easy to enforce,pp route might be easier

Have you lived there 4 years without objecting ? You may run the risk of having accepted this by not objecting

I believe in live and let live. My husband, however, is hopping mad at the cheek of it. Our dog does bark when the neighbour gets visitors/customers. He does not bark at other times. It is the strange dogs barking next door that set him off.

It is the aggression really from the neighbour's son demanding I keep my dog inside. I guess my noisy dog is bad for his business. Our dog is a collie so not a fierce dog at all.
Probably no pp as the dog grooming shed is just a shed with electrics and water supplied to it from the main house. The size of the shed is no bigger than 10 x 8ft.
I walk our dog 2 hours per day, and he has lots of my company, so he is not barking because he is bored but because he does not like the strange dogs visiting just the other side of the fence.

Speak to The Council to see if he is allowed to run a business from there
Prepare for the fallout though, he will know it's you who reported him

Why didn't you tell him to bugger off when he complained about your dog? Or point out that if he wasn't running a business, with noisy customers etc, then your dog wouldn't be barking so much.
You were really wet, apologising for this.

Call the council and discuss options. Maybe you can get him under noise disturbance or causing too much traffic in a residential street.

Yes, I am the really soft, wet one. Well spotted. My husband takes no prisoners and would have given short change and could live with it. I was a bit taken aback at how annoyed dh was so hence asking for opinions on MN rather than escalating it by discussing with family or friends as it may stir DH up more. MN is very helpful to me in this way!

If it all calms down and I get no more complaints from the neighbour's son I will live and let live as always. Of course, I will try and keep my own dog quiet but am fighting a losing battle there daily.

BUT...... if he pisses me off again I have some good comebacks from your helpful comments about him being the root cause and to bugger off.

The Council route would not really be an option for me as he would know and I don't want that sort of battle on our hands. Once started I could not stop that escalating and it could end badly for us with the fallout.

Are you on a wind up? Dog. Neighbour. Angry DH. Wet wife. It's all in there...

On the off chance you're not...

It would be ridiculous to complain to the council after 4 years. They are also likely to tell you that your dog is your responsibility, & that he shouldn't be barking at things going on in the neighbours garden. You need to train him out of that & not blame the neighbour. If they chose to have visitors daily or buy a dog you'd be in the same position.

It wasn't on for him to be rude to you, but he has every right to ask you to stop your dog barking.

No I am not on a wind up (honestly!). Although I would forgive you for thinking it is as it is so petty but could blow up to massive if Mis-handled by DH.
What you say about my dog being my responsibiliy is exactly what my neighbour's son said to me. He also suggested a dog behaviourist. He says it is not acceptable that my dog barks whenever his machinery is on or his garden gate opens/closes as customers enter his mum's garden or his work shed. DH wants to wage war on neighbour's son and report him for running a business in a residential area (using water not metered is dh's big beef).

I am not sure whether I said that the neighbour's son does not actually live next door but arrives daily to conduct his dog grooming at his mums.
The business is legitimate as DH checked and it is registered to my neighbours house as well as the sons flat on his website.

A bit of a late reply but what happened, is there
an update?