OberonSH
06-08-2007, 10:39 AM
Hi guys, just wanted to get something off my chest. As most of you know I have a craft shop in the UK, which I'm either going to sell or just close when we move out. I run the british goods site from the back of it at the moment, and have the shop as a correspondence address.
Today I got a snotty letter from the Council, who have found the site, telling me to remove the address and stop trading IMMEDIATELY!! Even included a copy of my lease, which does say I can't offer anything otehr than handicraft & knitting throug the shop.
Well, I've already had a set to with the council, as when my ex husband left he ran off with all the money, and turned out had only sporadically paid the rent. They came down very hard on me (bearing in mind I had no idea about the rent, as they had never bothered to write to me about the arrears) and threatened to chuck me out over Xmas. I came to an agreement with them, and they wanted £200 A WEEK to start with. As you can imagine this was only sustainable for a short time, and actually did my business a great deal of damage. They got very upset at the reduced payment of £50 a week, and have been harrassing me ever since. :(
S I perused my lease, and found that yes, indeed it would be aproblem. If I was selling he HP sauce etc through the shop. But as I'm not, and there's not mention in the main shop about it, and it's all internet based I fired off a snotty letter of my own telling them this. I'm sick of them picking on me!! The council want to sell the valuable piece of real-estate our marekt bulding sits on, and already have a couple of major supermarkets fighting over it. Trouble is, there's no plans on the table for a replacement hall, and they can't sell it withus traders still there, and on 3 year leases. First they tried to cancel our leases, and are now resorting to trying to hound traders out of the market. I'm a fairly easy target, being a young (ish) preganant woman, and so for the last 6 months have been fending off various nit picking schemes of theirs in an attempt to get me to leave.
I'm really cheesed off about the whole thing, and once I get a woolwebsite set back up, I'm planning on simply closing the shop becasue I'm sick of being hassled by various council workers. I just want to be left alone to get on with my business!!
Arrrghh!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: So I hope you guys are having a great day, cos it's grey and threatening rain here in the north of england. I'm so looking forward to swapping one set of beaureaucratic (sp?) nightmares for another!!! :fit: :fit: :fit:
Today I got a snotty letter from the Council, who have found the site, telling me to remove the address and stop trading IMMEDIATELY!! Even included a copy of my lease, which does say I can't offer anything otehr than handicraft & knitting throug the shop.
Well, I've already had a set to with the council, as when my ex husband left he ran off with all the money, and turned out had only sporadically paid the rent. They came down very hard on me (bearing in mind I had no idea about the rent, as they had never bothered to write to me about the arrears) and threatened to chuck me out over Xmas. I came to an agreement with them, and they wanted £200 A WEEK to start with. As you can imagine this was only sustainable for a short time, and actually did my business a great deal of damage. They got very upset at the reduced payment of £50 a week, and have been harrassing me ever since. :(
S I perused my lease, and found that yes, indeed it would be aproblem. If I was selling he HP sauce etc through the shop. But as I'm not, and there's not mention in the main shop about it, and it's all internet based I fired off a snotty letter of my own telling them this. I'm sick of them picking on me!! The council want to sell the valuable piece of real-estate our marekt bulding sits on, and already have a couple of major supermarkets fighting over it. Trouble is, there's no plans on the table for a replacement hall, and they can't sell it withus traders still there, and on 3 year leases. First they tried to cancel our leases, and are now resorting to trying to hound traders out of the market. I'm a fairly easy target, being a young (ish) preganant woman, and so for the last 6 months have been fending off various nit picking schemes of theirs in an attempt to get me to leave.
I'm really cheesed off about the whole thing, and once I get a woolwebsite set back up, I'm planning on simply closing the shop becasue I'm sick of being hassled by various council workers. I just want to be left alone to get on with my business!!
Arrrghh!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: So I hope you guys are having a great day, cos it's grey and threatening rain here in the north of england. I'm so looking forward to swapping one set of beaureaucratic (sp?) nightmares for another!!! :fit: :fit: :fit: