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Mary-Jane



Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 9:13 am    Post subject: What an enterprising young man... Reply with quote
    

...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
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Fantastic! Well done that boy.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: escaped from Swindon
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

bernie-woman



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: shropshire
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 9:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Very clever - good on him

Green Man



Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Location: Rural Scotland.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

excellent idea and I have a driveway I don't use......

nettie



Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cho-ku-ri wrote:
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.
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Fantastic in theory but then the powers that be will know exactly who to tax for it!

Jonnyboy



Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Clever lad, he deserves to do well.

Tay



Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Posts: 2811
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 07 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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