Deja Vu

What an awful feeling to be reliving this nightmare where I have a neighbour/resident (don't know who) that has complained about my running a business from home, so once again I have the council on my case.

One of the biggest complaints appears to be the lintels that we have placed in our gutters for a smoother drive over the gutters for parking purposes. According to the council they say it COULD POSSIBLY block the drains if it rains - uh huuuuu????

The only flaw with this plan is our gardener clears the gutters at least every 2nd week, in fact got Chris to ride down our road and see what other people's gutters looked like and this is the evidence.

Before I approach council I decided to approach my neighbours to check with them if they are still happy with me teaching from home and I have been blown away by the responses from all of them about how encouraging they are about me continuing, that they all think its a great idea and are happy with me continuing.

In fact the one knocked on my door last night and said that she is happy to help me by walking the streets to all our neighbours and gathering their support (isn't that simply wonderful?) My other neighbour has offered to draft a huge motivating letter about them wanting me to continue doing what I am doing.

So now my next step is to find a conveyancing attorney, cough up the thousands required for them to do their work and put in my application to council, personally would far rather donate that money to charity than pay it to council, especially since there are so many other people that are also not registered, particularly in neighbouring suburbs, but what can we do.

A couple of months ago the council came round to clear out all the gutters around our streets and I took photo's to prove that where we have a single back (at the actual storm drain itself), all the other gutters have at least 2 or 3 blue bags of rubbish that is being cleared out of their gutters - so now who is blocking the gutters and drains?