A row between a Glasgow vet and the council is still ongoing after almost ten years.
Dr Lesley Herd opened a surgery on Stanley Street in Kinning Park in 2004 and has faced issues with a car repair business next door in the years since.
She claims to have faced problems like chemical leaks and indoor smoke and has accused Glasgow City Council of failing to deal with her complaints.
Dr Herd has said she and her family are "at the end of their tether" having lost a reported £300,000 in investment and narrowly escaping fatal smoke exposure.
The vet said that the car repair business set up shop shortly after she opened her business leading to fumes leaking into the clinic's corridors and making her fear for the staff and animals in her care.
The Scottish Daily Express reports that the vet wrote to council leader Susan Aitken to report that there were several instances that made her fear environmental laws were being broken.
The landlord who eventually had to close the building to refurbish received no response to the complaint made to the council.
In 2014, Dr Herd said: "When I opened the door to the main clinic the smoke was so thick I could hardly see and was coughing. I called my partner who was at home who called the fire brigade and told me to leave the building.
"Two fire engines, police and paramedics also attend and the paramedics stated I would have been overcome with the smoke with potentially fatal consequences had I not left the building."
She added: "I built my business from nothing over a ten year period and it was destroyed, I managed to restart my rehabilitation clinic in December 2015 in a new premises but I lost my emergency clinic business and I estimate that I lost circa 250 thousand to 300 thousand pounds.
"I thought Glasgow City Council would protect my health and wellbeing and my business.
"However Glasgow City Council have been discriminatory against me as a single women business owner, has been vindictive and has breached my basic human rights as a Scottish citizen.
"I am actually extremely apprehensive and frightened for myself and my family in wring this letter to you in light of GCC actions in this case."
In recent weeks the neighbouring business has used the public on-street parking to prop up vehicles on axels, an act prohibited in England and Wales but not in Scotland, and one that causes access issues for the vet centre.
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A petition calling for a full investigation into the case has received over 2,000 signatures.
Local Conservative MSP Dr Sandesh Gulhane has stepped in and written to both the council and Police Scotland about the situation.
Dr Gulhane said: "I was shocked to hear of the predicament facing these constituents of mine. This is a truly appalling situation for anyone to be put in and they are clearly at the end of their tether.
“I have written to both Glasgow City Council and the police outlining their concerns and urging them to get these matters resolved as soon as possible.
“This business will clearly continue to be under threat if action isn’t taken immediately. It is completely understandable that my constituents are angry and anxious about this.
“I will be continuing to contact the relevant authorities and liaise with my constituents to hopefully find a positive outcome as soon as possible.”
Glasgow City Council have been approached for comment.
