Reporting an untaxed car - Is office Car park a public road?

bclark

There has been a Car left in our office Car park now for the last two weeks and it hasn't moved. It is displaying an out of date tax disc (ended at the end of July). We have raised this with the Office landlords but they don't seem to be in a rush to do anything but as we have very limited parking we want to get rid of it.

Having looked on the DVLA website it has a methos for reporting untaxed vehicles 'on the public road'. Would our work car park count as the car being on the public road?

hewhoisnotintheknow

bclark wrote: »

There has been a Car left in our office Car park now for the last two weeks and it hasn't moved. It is displaying an out of date tax disc (ended at the end of July). We have raised this with the Office landlords but they don't seem to be in a rush to do anything but as we have very limited parking we want to get rid of it.

Having looked on the DVLA website it has a methos for reporting untaxed vehicles 'on the public road'. Would our work car park count as the car being on the public road?

i would assume your works car park, belongs to work and not the state

so no

bclark

hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: »

i would assume your works car park, belongs to work and not the state

so no

So its like a safe haven to abandon untaxed vehicles?

LandyAndy

However, the keeper may not have declared SORN so it could be worth reporting anyway.

muckybutt

Abandoned car, report to police as may be stolen and / or council

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

If its a road accessible to the public (ie supermarket car park) then it must be taxed.

LandyAndy

My experience of reporting untaxed cars on the road outside my house is that the response time is months not weeks or days.

hewhoisnotintheknow

when i lived in a flat some idiot kept buying clapped out old bangers and then leaving them in everyones space, the landlord had to sort it out as it was private property

Lil2002

You can check if the car is untaxed/SORN on the DVLA website. All you need is the make & license plate.
http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/application?origin=vnav_bar.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.refresh&pageid=Vehicle+Enquiry

LandyAndy

Lil2002 wrote: »

You can check if the car is untaxed/SORN on the DVLA website. All you need is the make & license plate.
http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/application?origin=vnav_bar.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.refresh&pageid=Vehicle+Enquiry

Linky not worky.:o

Try this http://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/application?origin=vnav_bar.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.refresh&pageid=Vehicle+Enquiry

I think it may be a link that times out.

Morient25

The police will only become involved if it has been stolen or used in a crime, or if it is unsafe (smashed windows etc)

If it has been abandoned on private property (an office or pub car park for example) then it is not illegal to not display a valid tax disc. It is the responsibility of the land owner to remove the vehicle, but they have to remove it without damaging it, and leave it somewhere nearby where it does not cause an obstruction. Once this is done the DVLA can deal with it as it is on the public highway.

If the land owner isn't bothered about it being there, there isn't much more you can do.