Caravan Parking..Legalities?
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Grandad Gaz said:
I shouldn't worry too much. Pi keys will have it away in a day or two!
Quite, I know a bloke who had quite a nice caravan, he put the most expensive locking system on it he could buy. I was helping him out doing something an we came back to an empty drive and all that was left was a big chunk of hot smoldering metal.R6VED said:
Where I live you can't park a caravan even on your drive, some clause in the deeds that I spotted when we bought it 6 months ago. You also can't cut down certain trees and no sign written vans over a certain size are allowed.
Always wondered about this. What would happen if you chose to ignore the clause?Reason I ask is we had similar clauses in deeds of our old house. Trees not to be cut down and shrubs not to be planted etc. We ignored the last one and nothing ever happened.
What speed limit is the road? IIRC a trailer (including caravan) can be parked on the road, if it is left parked overnight it must not be facing the direction of traffic (in other words it should be pointing the correct way). If the speed limit is more than 30mph it must have its parking lights illuminated.
Up here in Leeds it is an offence to have a caravan parked on the public highway for more than 24 hours and can be and are removed by the enforcement team. Asked my mate who works for Leeds City Council about this a few months ago when a neighbour was completley blocking access to the street with his huge caravan.
Gren said:
Always wondered about this. What would happen if you chose to ignore the clause?
Reason I ask is we had similar clauses in deeds of our old house. Trees not to be cut down and shrubs not to be planted etc. We ignored the last one and nothing ever happened.
It is hard to enforce. However, I guess if someone could be bothered to go to a solicitor I guess they'd take their money for a series of threatening letters.Reason I ask is we had similar clauses in deeds of our old house. Trees not to be cut down and shrubs not to be planted etc. We ignored the last one and nothing ever happened.
It is usually something taken out by the housebuilder so the place looks nice for the first few months until they get all the plots sold.
Monty Python said:
It's not illegal unless it's causing an obstruction. However, it must have reflectors pointing towards the oncoming traffic.
Is it not causing an obstrcution if the OP wants to park his car there?Just out of interest what insurance cover is there if it rolled away and killed someone.
Gren said:
R6VED said:
Where I live you can't park a caravan even on your drive, some clause in the deeds that I spotted when we bought it 6 months ago. You also can't cut down certain trees and no sign written vans over a certain size are allowed.
Always wondered about this. What would happen if you chose to ignore the clause?Reason I ask is we had similar clauses in deeds of our old house. Trees not to be cut down and shrubs not to be planted etc. We ignored the last one and nothing ever happened.
Once they're all sold they couldn't really give a stuff - but there will always be someone living nearby waving deeds in your face if you breach them and it upsets them.
PAULJ5555 said:
Monty Python said:
It's not illegal unless it's causing an obstruction. However, it must have reflectors pointing towards the oncoming traffic.
Is it not causing an obstrcution if the OP wants to park his car there?Just out of interest what insurance cover is there if it rolled away and killed someone.
The insurance question is interesting though, I'd like to know that too. We've got a caravan but no car with a tow bar, so I'd question how either of the car insurances could be liable.
herewego said:
I believe it has to have lights at night, the same as a skip or anything else left in the road.
Essentially correct it has to have the lights illuminated between sunset and sunrise regardless of the speed limit of the road even if a solo vehicle of permitted types would be allowed to park there unlit. Furthermore if the trailer is of a design which is not required to be fitted with obligatory front position lights, if it is parked on a road without a vehicle attached between sunset and sunrise, then a conforming set of front position lights must be fitted and kept continuously illuminated in addition to the rear lights.
Just to be clear even when connected to a vehicle and even though the combination is in a 30, not near a junction etc., the lights on the whole train must be lit.
Many years ago pre Internet I wasn't sure about this last point and asked some lads in the traffic section. As it happened they had to look it up and pronounced that lights had to be lit, but then added the rider that if they didn't know off the top of their heads then unlikely anyone else would know.
HTH.
Gren said:
R6VED said:
Where I live you can't park a caravan even on your drive, some clause in the deeds that I spotted when we bought it 6 months ago. You also can't cut down certain trees and no sign written vans over a certain size are allowed.
Always wondered about this. What would happen if you chose to ignore the clause?Reason I ask is we had similar clauses in deeds of our old house. Trees not to be cut down and shrubs not to be planted etc. We ignored the last one and nothing ever happened.
Never stopped my ex-wife.
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