I attended the local meeting, called by the council to discuss the objections to the application (more than a year ago). That was the first the owners heard about staff smoking outside peoples' houses. Although this is not against the law, the owner asked all staff to stop smoking outside neighbours houses. I would be surprised if this problem had reoccurred since then - not that it should be grounds for shutting down the nursery. If other concerns had been raised with the nursery then I am sure there would have been a solution to these, but no such approaches have been made, instead neighbours are filming children arriving at the nursery when their parents park perfectly legally and sensibly.

There are usually ways to deal with these issue outside of legal proceedings, it is unfortunate that TLERA has made no attempt to help neighbours/members work together for a mutually acceptable solution.