PhilsGT4

My girlfriend lives in a terraced housing block, parking is limited at best with only n street parking available. Her next door neighbour has a habit of buying cars very cheap running them til they break then leaving them on the side outside their house until the MOT expires. At the moment there has been an old Sierra Sapphire outside my girlfriends house for a few months - it hasn't moved so we presume the car has died. We have tried speaking to the neighbours to see if they could get rid of it or move it but their attitude is sod off! Has anyone got any ideas as to how we could get the rust bucket moved or dumped????


Thanks

Fatman

Check this thread.

Dazza01

Stick a sign on it saying "FREE to good home"

PhilsGT4

It is taxed at the moment tho - will the council just leave it and do nothing then??

Fatman

Is the space that the car occupies allocated to your girlfriend?

PhilsGT4

Unfortunately not, its all on street and as such there are no allocations except for a disable space halfway down the street.

Could you contact the police for it pssibly not being fit for road use...? It does look unroadworthy...

Fatman

If it's taxed, MOT'd and using an unallocated parking space then I don't see what your 'angle' would be. Why not just ask the local Police if there's anything they can do?

Boro

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Isnt there a law that says something like.... if a vehicle hasnt been moved for a certain period of time then it can be removed?

Im sure ive heard this somewhere

paulr

Have to agree with fatman,if its taxed,mot etc,i doubt you can do anything.....except ask again with your best smile and a few cans of lager.

AudiMan

If it's taxed the Council can't touch it, set it on fire then they'll tow it away (once the fire brigade have finished), if bloke then confronts you about it, tell him his house is next unless he bucks his ideas up !!

ajm

Audiman has said pretty much word for word what I was thinking!

The alternative is to pick it up with some heavy machinery and deposit it on your neighbours doorstep.

Father Jack Hackett

They may have to move it if it's obstructing the road. So if someone moved it into the road a bit (not so that it's actually causing a danger), then let the police know, maybe you'd get some joy.