Mum given an 'ASBO' due to bus parked on her drive

DOUBLE DECKER WAS GOING TO BE TURNED INTO MOBILE CAFÉ

- By NEIL SHAW

A MUM of two who parked a double-decker bus on her drive to turn it into a café is being forced to move it after complaints from neighbours.

Wendy Salmon parked the vehicle outside her home at the end of her leafy cul-de-sac in a Camberley street on a temporary basis to renovate it.

But she has now been slapped with an ASBO-type order and told to remove it - after neighbours said it was “ruining the ambience”. She has accused neighbours of “rallying” the others on the street against her by complaining it was an eyesore.

And despite the council accepting she was not breaking any laws, she has been hit with a CPN, formerly known as an ASBO, and ordered to remove it following a bitter two year legal battle.

Wendy, 55, who runs a pub, described the situation as “ridiculous” and accused neighbours of being “curtain twitchers” who “act like they own the street”.

She said: "The wording of the CPN was that it was 'upsetting the ambience of the local area'. Now no one speaks to me.

"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."

The street is lined with four-bedroom detached properties with an average house price of around £600,000. Wendy's house is at the end of the cul-de-sac, and she said her drive was out of the view of most of the residents complaining.