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Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 9:13 am Post subject: What an enterprising young man...
...and a good way of keeping parking legal and not clogging up the town centres! https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6383737.stm

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 9:17 am Post subject:
Fantastic! Well done that boy.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28235
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 9:38 am Post subject:
It's amazing how many good ideas are so bleeding obvious in retrospect. Good on him

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7824
Location: shropshire

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 9:48 am Post subject:
Very clever - good on him

Green Man

Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 5272
Location: Rural Scotland.

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 9:53 am Post subject:

It is a good idea, but I have a better one that cuts out the middle man. If there was a nationaly recognised sign or cone that could be sat in your driveway when you have a space to let. Then we could all start letting our driveways without the need to rgegister anywhere. All the custumor would need to do would be drive around utill he/she sees a space that will do. Once innitial contact has been made, a permenent arangement could be set up if that was what you were looking for.
I have a nursing friend that is having her ward moved to a new hospital. They are going to charge anybody who is there more than ten hours �25.00 a day to park, and guess what? The nurses work 12hr shifts.

She lives in the country with no public transport. I'm going to send her the link to this guys page. It's just what she is looking for.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 10:32 am Post subject:

Cho-ku-ri wrote:

I have a nursing friend that is having her ward moved to a new hospital. They are going to charge anybody who is there more than ten hours �25.00 a day to park, and guess what? The nurses work 12hr shifts.

She lives in the country with no public transport. I'm going to send her the link to this guys page. It's just what she is looking for.

Excellent.

Downsizer strikes again!

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 10:40 am Post subject:
excellent idea and I have a driveway I don't use......

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 1:14 pm Post subject:

Cho-ku-ri wrote:

Fantastic in theory but then the powers that be will know exactly who to tax for it!

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 2:14 pm Post subject:
Clever lad, he deserves to do well.

Tay

Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Posts: 2811
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 4:23 pm Post subject:

jema wrote:

It's amazing how many good ideas are so bleeding obvious in retrospect. Good on him

I couldn't have put it better myself! Great idea, I hope he does well.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 4:50 pm Post subject:
There are quite a few sites that do this already. Where I used to work many of the local properties with spare drive space had notes in their front windows offering to rent out their drive so it's quite a common practice round 'ere. IIRC isn't there a way to avoid tax on small rental income?

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
Location: Planet, not on the....

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 07 6:15 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

IIRC isn't there a way to avoid tax on small rental income?

There certainly used to be - it was for the Rent a Room scheme, but did apply to any property rental income under a certain amount a year, after expenses. I suppose this could count as property rental

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