Uninsured car parked in front of my house

asbokid

naijapower wrote: »

Some new development..i have just spoken to another neighbour who has confirmed he too has also complained to the council. Like i have tried to explain even though some people have chosen to misinterprete my post. The key issue is dumping vehicles that look unroadworthy and unisured. We (other neighbours) have no prob if visitors etc park outside our homes. The prob is when someone choses to hog up your outside area for weeks on end with his vehicle.
If there was nothing wrong, then surely the council would not have elected to get involved and speak to him; also Police would not have removed one of his vehicles which was stationary for 6 months (no movement)..

are you not concerned that you might just be kicking this man while he is down?

since his life is plagued by money problems, court hearings and bailiffs, perhaps the last thing on his mind is where he parks his dirty old van?

have you ever kept hens? if not, you should go and watch some.. they have inherently cruel behaviour. they always pick on the weak birds among them and literally peck them to death. it's instinct, a form of population control, and it's done to maximise the food supply. it's nature at its cruelest. it's nice to think that our species is too developed to do that any more....

Chippy_Minton_2

naijapower wrote: »

Forgot to state, i was able to confirm these vans are uninsured by checking askmid.
Does anyone know how accurate and up to date this database is?

So you broke the data protection act. Well done.:rolleyes:

naijapower

Chippy_Minton wrote: »

So you broke the data protection act. Well done.:rolleyes:

Yes. very correct. Can't argue about this. But then i am not the first and won't be the last.
We are a country of law breakers...even law makers (MP) break law as well.....:j

Lum

Is said van actually unroadworthy though? You have no way of knowing this. If you saw my 18 year old Volvo for example, which I picked up for £275 last October (for use as an emergency car if my main car, or my GFs car are ever off the road) you'd probably think it's unroadworthy, it's covered in dents and scratches (one side looks like someone has taken a belt sander to the paintwork), and a lot of the (decorative) parts of the bumper is crackes or has bits missing or filled in with gaffer tape. Oh and I never wash it either, not really much point on a car this awful.

I too must be a bad neighbour because I leave this thing in the street, preferring to put the two nice cars (both of which are on an L reg so 15 years old) in the driveway to protect them from being damaged by someone being stupid on the road.

Oh, and it sailed through it's MOT in March only needing new front brake pads and discs.

I think the biggest problem here is the way that nearly all new builds these days have woefully inadequate parking, the new government guidelines state 0.5 parking spaces per house as the minimum, so if someone has a couple of vehicles there is always going to be contention.

lisyloo

so if someone has a couple of vehicles there is always going to be contention

Agred but surely using your home as a business premises is going to cause contention.
I don't mean people working from home which is not anti-social, I mean people having clients coming and going or taking up a lot of space with commercial vehicles.

Where I live there is a clause in teh contract that you can't use your home as a business (a lot of new builds have this) to avoid the space, parking, noise, congestion, polution problems etc.

naijapower

Granted....and agreed. The biggest problem is the new build road style. But i have spoken to several new home builders and they have shifted the blame to the council claiming they are the ones that provided approval for the small roads.
Just read that in Milton Keynes, the council didnt want to know for a long time with regards to complaints about narrow roads in these new estate until their weekly rubbish truck staff got harassed by resident. The truck almost dented someone car in a new build area and all hell broke lose. The council then woke up and suddenly started moaning????? over a problem they caused.

inmypocketnottheirs

Here is the problem. If the van is taxed, insured and had a valid MOT then the guy can park it where he likes, as long as it does not cause an obstruction. A lay persons view on whether it is insured (having breached the DPA and committed an offence themselves) or is roadworthy is purely speculative.

lisyloo

The coucil departments are not joined up and do not talk to each other.

We had the building regs people plan to put in speed humps in our road that the rubbish trucks could not negotiate.
So it's not uncommon for the different departments to worki independently of each other.

I made sure I told the rubbish trucks not to come down our long private driveway.

Lum

naijapower wrote: »

Granted....and agreed. The biggest problem is the new build road style. But i have spoken to several new home builders and they have shifted the blame to the council claiming they are the ones that provided approval for the small roads.
Just read that in Milton Keynes, the council didnt want to know for a long time with regards to complaints about narrow roads in these new estate until their weekly rubbish truck staff got harassed by resident. The truck almost dented someone car in a new build area and all hell broke lose. The council then woke up and suddenly started moaning????? over a problem they caused.

Actually the guidelines come from the government, it's yet another anti-car/green* policy. That said for the builders to shift the blame like that is laughable. Just because they're allowed to build tiny roads with inadequate parking doesn't mean they should (this also seems to summarise the issues with your neighbour too). Personally if I was looking at a new build estate where the builders had done the absolute bare minimum necessary in order to maximise profit (in this case small roads = can cram in a few more houses) then I'd wonder where else they've been cutting corners.

As for the business thing. There's a fine line. Some people just like to buy cars, fix them up and sell them on for a profit. Some people like to buy items for cheap on eBay, then advertise them a bit better and sell them on for a profit. Where do you draw the line?

* delete as appropriate according to personal opinion

naijapower

Okay, i have some update now. Quite interesting.
Though our neighbour has suddenly moved his van, Police have come back to me saying that an UNINSURED vehicle is legally allowed to be parked on the road so long as it is not causing an obstruction.
Police state they can only clamp down on untax vehicles.
They state an offence is only commited if this neighbour choses to drive this van uninsured.