Van outside house? Legality of living in it?
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This van appeared last couple of days outside our house. It looks like someone may be living in it? It’s actually quite a cool old Renault Traffic but where it’s parked and due to the dip as we come off our drive it makes leaving our home quite dangerous. We are currently in negotiations to have white lines painted by the local authority to stop parking across the drive for this reason and our daughter is collected/ dropped off by special needs transport every day.
Anyway my question is assuming it’s taxed and insured etc. No double yellows is it legal to just park up and stay in a vehicle indefinitely outside residential homes?
Anyway my question is assuming it’s taxed and insured etc. No double yellows is it legal to just park up and stay in a vehicle indefinitely outside residential homes?
Mikebentley said:
This van appeared last couple of days outside our house. It looks like someone may be living in it? It’s actually quite a cool old Renault Traffic but where it’s parked and due to the dip as we come off our drive it makes leaving our home quite dangerous. We are currently in negotiations to have white lines painted by the local authority to stop parking across the drive for this reason and our daughter is collected/ dropped off by special needs transport every day.
Anyway my question is assuming it’s taxed and insured etc. No double yellows is it legal to just park up and stay in a vehicle indefinitely outside residential homes?
Is this in Australia?Anyway my question is assuming it’s taxed and insured etc. No double yellows is it legal to just park up and stay in a vehicle indefinitely outside residential homes?
If the council were so inclined, they may well try to prevent the vehicle being used for habitation through s.77 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
AgentZ said:
Tax runs out today and MOT ran out in October.
But it is insured according to ask MID,( at the moment?) . As the MOT ran out last year I doubt very much it will be re taxed next week. If it's still there (untaxed no MOT) in a week or so, report it to DVLA and to your local council.
If someone is living in it you could say it's a health hazard,especially if they are tipping "waste" down the drain.
One of the reasons you don't see motorhomes or camper vans dotted around roadsides having overnight stops wherever they want is that most (99.99%) of the time there will be a by-law in place preventing overnight sleeping in a vehicle on the highway, and the Police can move them on if they are doing so.
So I would imagine you could get it moved with a quick call to your local coppers.
So I would imagine you could get it moved with a quick call to your local coppers.
av185 said:
So do all the tightarse caravanners and motorhomes illegally stopping overnight cluttering up laybys and beauty spots especially in Scotland.
Morons.
Thought one of the main differences in Scotland to England was you can park up perfectly legally, indeed it is one of the main attractions and a large part of the tourist pound to the region?Morons.
Twit just moved on, hoping it was an employee of the BUPA carehome opposite. 8 till 8 shift. On front seat was MOT refusal sheet and time sheet blanks for a nursing assistant agency. Maybe they took for MOT this morning it failed and they had to go to work opposite.
If there tomorrow I’ll put a For Sale sign on it advertising NO MOT since Oct 2017 and all enquiries at carehome with their telephone number. Hopefully passing bobbies might take an interest after a call to Crimestoppers.
If there tomorrow I’ll put a For Sale sign on it advertising NO MOT since Oct 2017 and all enquiries at carehome with their telephone number. Hopefully passing bobbies might take an interest after a call to Crimestoppers.
Mikebentley said:
Twit just moved on, hoping it was an employee of the BUPA carehome opposite. 8 till 8 shift. On front seat was MOT refusal sheet and time sheet blanks for a nursing assistant agency. Maybe they took for MOT this morning it failed and they had to go to work opposite.
If there tomorrow I’ll put a For Sale sign on it advertising NO MOT since Oct 2017 and all enquiries at carehome with their telephone number. Hopefully passing bobbies might take an interest after a call to Crimestoppers.
Not in my back yard, eh?If there tomorrow I’ll put a For Sale sign on it advertising NO MOT since Oct 2017 and all enquiries at carehome with their telephone number. Hopefully passing bobbies might take an interest after a call to Crimestoppers.
Some Gump said:
Mikebentley said:
Twit just moved on, hoping it was an employee of the BUPA carehome opposite. 8 till 8 shift. On front seat was MOT refusal sheet and time sheet blanks for a nursing assistant agency. Maybe they took for MOT this morning it failed and they had to go to work opposite.
If there tomorrow I’ll put a For Sale sign on it advertising NO MOT since Oct 2017 and all enquiries at carehome with their telephone number. Hopefully passing bobbies might take an interest after a call to Crimestoppers.
Not in my back yard, eh?If there tomorrow I’ll put a For Sale sign on it advertising NO MOT since Oct 2017 and all enquiries at carehome with their telephone number. Hopefully passing bobbies might take an interest after a call to Crimestoppers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41830...
Nice eh van dweller is a twit probably because they are a zero hour, minimum wage monkey for those old tossers in care homes.
speedyguy said:
Does the Nimby OP live in Bristol?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41830...
Nice eh van dweller is a twit probably because they are a zero hour, minimum wage monkey for those old tossers in care homes.
My thoughts exactly. Like the guy doesn't have enough problems, now he can't even get to work legally.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-41830...
Nice eh van dweller is a twit probably because they are a zero hour, minimum wage monkey for those old tossers in care homes.
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