Council removed our road worthy/legal car from our car park.

nickismee

I will keep you all informed of any out come, lets see how far we need to take this before the council backs down.

chambta

This is a disgrace! Hope to hear of their apology and cash compensation to you shortly.

greenface

Dont forget all the taxi trips to your solicitors phone bills and letters written stamps and time its taken;) possible loss of earnings extra trips to the council.

Plus im not sure a mileometer needs to be working for a mot (someone will answer this)

LilacPixie

Dunno about the mileometer being a legal requirement for an MOT but i suspect it would be.

My OH used to work offshore in the O&G industry. Quite often his car would be parked up for 8-10 weeks at a time because he was off the coast of africa or where ever and I have my own car. I used to take it for a spin every so often but never regular use. We have a residential car park too, no 'official spaces' but we all park in spaces closest our own homes. The would be confused with his as its a digital mileometer.

OP - hope you get your car back soon.

To the OP

dacouch

I think I may have cracked this for you after slaving over google in a bout of insomnia

The last paragraph of this one is interesting

http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/2049894.car_mistakingly_towed_from_owners_house/

THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING, it is a ruling by the Ombudsman in a case similar to yours where he ruled in the persons favour, awarded damges for the crushed car and a further £250 for compensation. He was very very unimpressed with the councils actions (Which appear to be similar to yours) and accused the of maladministration.

I would recommend you print this ruling out and go and see the most senior person at the council you can find and show them the ruling. I think that within say a day (You need to allow them time to investigate and find out they have not acted correctly you will have your car back)/ I would also ask them for a similar level of compensation as the council will not want an ombudsmans ruling against them especially as they seem to be trumpeting how great this ELVIS is...

It mat be worth showing the document to the solictor who is advsing you first just in case he recommends using it in a different way.

http://www.greenwich.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C7EC0E62-DE69-483F-9D88-772C1EB2AD03/0/007OmbudsmanComplaintReportAppendixA.pdf

Good luck, I hope this works as this seems to be a great injustice and the councils seem to be on a power trip at the moment and forgeting they are public servants. (No doubt their "Executive Client Facing Director of ELVIS Intergration" (Or whatever grandiose name they have been given!) is on £70000 a year etc etc. (Please feel free to pass my comments on to the council as I hate them!)

Power to the people and I soooo love this forum, we can all help each other by working together

greenface

lost photos and forgotten dates ----no wonder we dont trust council scumbags

dacouch

Its bad how they are treating nicksmee and those people in the ombudsmans ruling isn't it

LittleMissAspie

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

Your mileometer reading would increase every week then

Can't read my mileometer from outside the window. Some cars even have digital ones, can't read those unless the ignition is on.

Hope you win this nickismee, I'd be devastated if this happened to my lovely Beetle.

dipsy

just incase no one has mentioned it, make sure you contact them well before the "crush" date if your car is a lower value car it may be crushed early if they don't have much on.

I am only saying this as I know someone to whom this happended, turned up to pay release fee etc before date of crushing and his car had already been crushed because they were not busy, lost all his stuff in the car.

different scenario to yours though as he had no road tax at time of towing away......

hope you get it sorted soon

Mandark

That sounds unlawful dipsy. Did they get any compensation?