Parking Lights @ Night > 1.5 Tonnes

[jeffreyarcher]

Trouble with a near neighbour using the street as a free garage for his business.
IIRC vehicles over 1.5 tonnes have to display lights when parked at night. Can anyone point me to the relevent statute?

[nighthawk]

Never seen any references to this

a law such as this would mean some big cars and vans/trucks being lit up like christmas trees all alond the street.

[puggit]

Ummm - how about the highway code Disappointed in you JA

www.highwaycode.gov.uk/22.shtml#224

HWC said:

Cars, goods vehicles not exceeding 1525kg unladen, invalid carriages and motorcycles may be parked without lights on a road (or lay-by) with a speed limit of 30 mph or less if they are at least 10 metres (32 feet) away from any junction, close to the kerb and facing in the direction of the traffic flow in a recognised parking place or lay-by. Other vehicles and trailers, and all vehicles with projecting loads, MUST NOT be left on a road at night without lights. Law RVLR reg 24

[nighthawk]

Must admit, I never knew that.

My car doesn't even have parking lights, if trafpol in Chester enforced this, ½ the vans and trucks in the city would be stung by it.

[Tafia]

jeffreyarcher said:

Trouble with a near neighbour using the street as a free garage for his business. IIRC vehicles over 1.5 tonnes have to display lights when parked at night. Can anyone point me to the relevent statute?

Does he run his business from a private dwelling? If so, change of use permission is required from local authority.

[Tafia]

nighthawk said:

Must admit, I never knew that. My car doesn't even have parking lights, if trafpol in Chester enforced this, ½ the vans and trucks in the city would be stung by it.

Jeepers!! Chester? Who is the madman who designed all the traffic calming around the city? Wot a nightmare.

T

[nighthawk]

Tafia said:

nighthawk said: Must admit, I never knew that. My car doesn't even have parking lights, if trafpol in Chester enforced this, ½ the vans and trucks in the city would be stung by it. Jeepers!! Chester? Who is the madman who designed all the traffic calming around the city? Wot a nightmare. T

I have no idea m8, but if I ever do get to meet him, i'll gladly use his broken body as a speed hump.

(thats NOT a death threat either )

[Dwight VanDriver]

JA

Regulation 24, Road Vehicles Lighting Regs, 1989.

DVD

[silverback mike]

jeffreyarcher said:

Trouble with a near neighbour using the street as a free garage for his business. IIRC vehicles over 1.5 tonnes have to display lights when parked at night. Can anyone point me to the relevent statute?

Dwight, spot on.
Non endorsable fpn offence jeffery.
Edited as I added a random letter in "fzpn..."


>> Edited by silverback mike on Saturday 10th April 08:30

[silverback mike]

Do you live anywhere near me Jeffrey, if so, pm me and we can deal with it.

[jeremyc]

Isn't this a case of the law being behind the times (again ): surely a majority of medium to large cars today weigh over 1.5 tonnes.

[jeffreyarcher]

silverback mike said:

Do you live anywhere near me Jeffrey, if so, pm me and we can deal with it.

Thanks v. much, Mike; however, I'm several hundred miles northwards.

>> Edited by jeffreyarcher on Saturday 10th April 11:38

[gone]

Its above 1525kg which have to show lights at night in a street lamped 30 limit. Anything parked outside a lit 30mph area has to show lights if it is parked on a road or verge.

The best way to deal with this is to go to the local council if he is running a business from home and tell them.
He may well not have planning permission to do so and they can enforce him to stop doing it.

>> Edited by gone on Saturday 10th April 11:44

[john_p]

My car's unladen weight is 1575kg! That's a bit concerning ..

[TonyOut]

Silverback Mike To JeffreyArcher said:

Do you live anywhere near me Jeffrey, if so, pm me and we can deal with it.

And who said modern british policing isn't an old boys club