A row between neighbours has broken out after a woman was given a Community Protection Notice (formerly known as an Asbo) for parking a double decker bus on her own driveway.
Wendy Salmon has been ordered to remove the bus after "snobby" neighbours complained it was spoiling their view.
The house is at the end of a Surrey cul-de-sac, and she said her drive was out of the view of most of the residents complaining.
Salmon, parked the vehicle outside her home with the intention to turn it into the cafe, however she has told to remove it, despite the council initially accepting she was "not breaking any laws".
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The 55-year-old said: "All my neighbours completely ignore me. I'm being treated like a criminal even though I've never committed a crime in my life.
"The whole thing is just ridiculous.
"The council said it needed a certain amount of witnesses so a neighbour went knocking on doors to try and drum up the hatred against me. She went straight on the attack.
"All her friends up the road cannot even see the bus from their home. There is no way it is impacting or bothering them. It is just snobbery, pure and simple."
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The row broke out just 15 minutes after the bus arrived in March 2023. Salmon had parked the bus in her private driveway to renovate it into a cafe.
She said: "Within 15 minutes of it being parked, the man next door appeared to ask if it was a permanent fixture.
"Within another hour, he returned to say that there will be complaints.
"Over the next few days, his wife spoke to me and asked various questions. I told her that I was renovating the bus and that I hoped it would be completed in three months."
The bus was then reported as "abandoned" which resulted in a visit from a member of Surrey Heath Borough Council’s Corporate Enforcement Department.
She added: "This neighbour cannot see the bus from their position on the road but is a friend of the initial complainer.
"I later received another visit from the council and I showed them the inside of the bus, clearly work had been carried out.
"Apparently, my neighbour had told them that she didn’t want to see my bus while she was sitting watching TV in the summer."
She confirmed that she plans to move the bus to the pub car park
Surrey Heath Council said in a statement: "We are unable to comment on this case at present."
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