A Somerset childminder claimed last week that she has been singled out by planning officers who have told her to seek planning permission or face closure after a neighbour alleged she was running a day nursery at her home.
Sue Gray, who has run Carousel Daycare at her house in Bridgewater since February last year, insists that she and two employees caring for six children each day are childminders operating a childminding network and that she is the victim of a long-standing dispute with the neighbour.
She said, 'I know of other childminders who are doing the same as me and have not been told to seek planning permission. I think what is happening to me has enormous implications for childminders.'
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