Can you legally park a caravan or trailer outside your house
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Can you legally park a caravan or trailer outside your house, just to stop someone else parking there?
Close to me, near a station is one spot in the road without restrictions, so the home owner has put a box trailer there to stop other people parking there, he may use it as a shed for all I know, in 5/6 years I’ve never known it to move. It also restricts turning at the end of the close.
Whilst bored waiting to pick the wife up I put the reg into a car checker, it doesn’t exist so false plate.
Is this legal?
Close to me, near a station is one spot in the road without restrictions, so the home owner has put a box trailer there to stop other people parking there, he may use it as a shed for all I know, in 5/6 years I’ve never known it to move. It also restricts turning at the end of the close.
Whilst bored waiting to pick the wife up I put the reg into a car checker, it doesn’t exist so false plate.
Is this legal?
Super Sonic said:
foccer said:
Doesnt it need to have lights on at night too?
Wouldn't that be the same as the necessity of having sidelights on a car lit? Ie if parked on an unlit road with a speed limit over 30 and not in a parking bay.Also the rules relating to parking a car unlit in a 30 etc don't apply if you have a trailer attached.
FiF said:
Super Sonic said:
foccer said:
Doesnt it need to have lights on at night too?
Wouldn't that be the same as the necessity of having sidelights on a car lit? Ie if parked on an unlit road with a speed limit over 30 and not in a parking bay.Also the rules relating to parking a car unlit in a 30 etc don't apply if you have a trailer attached.
A trailer can be parked on a road and not attached to a vehicle. There are specific rules about which lights need to be lit at night. No lights is not an option.
As for a car, goods vehicle gvw <2500kg, invalid carriages, motorcycles, cycles, may be parked at night without lights, in a road with a 30 limit or less, more than 10 metres from any junction, close to the kerb, facing the direction of traffic flow, in a recognised parking space or lay-by.
If a trailer is attached this does not apply to both car and trailer, then lights must be illuminated. Just to be clear both car and trailer need to be lit.
As for a car, goods vehicle gvw <2500kg, invalid carriages, motorcycles, cycles, may be parked at night without lights, in a road with a 30 limit or less, more than 10 metres from any junction, close to the kerb, facing the direction of traffic flow, in a recognised parking space or lay-by.
If a trailer is attached this does not apply to both car and trailer, then lights must be illuminated. Just to be clear both car and trailer need to be lit.
FiF said:
A trailer can be parked on a road and not attached to a vehicle. There are specific rules about which lights need to be lit at night. No lights is not an option.
As for a car, goods vehicle gvw <2500kg, invalid carriages, motorcycles, cycles, may be parked at night without lights, in a road with a 30 limit or less, more than 10 metres from any junction, close to the kerb, facing the direction of traffic flow, in a recognised parking space or lay-by.
If a trailer is attached this does not apply to both car and trailer, then lights must be illuminated. Just to be clear both car and trailer need to be lit.
Thanks. I misremembered a couple of bits.As for a car, goods vehicle gvw <2500kg, invalid carriages, motorcycles, cycles, may be parked at night without lights, in a road with a 30 limit or less, more than 10 metres from any junction, close to the kerb, facing the direction of traffic flow, in a recognised parking space or lay-by.
If a trailer is attached this does not apply to both car and trailer, then lights must be illuminated. Just to be clear both car and trailer need to be lit.
LotsOfLaughs said:
On your own property, you can.
On a public road, I don't think so. I've not seen anyone ever leave a trailer at the side of the road without a car, I imagine it'd be stolen immediately.
Many newer houses have restrictive covenants prevent the storage/parking of caravans on the property.On a public road, I don't think so. I've not seen anyone ever leave a trailer at the side of the road without a car, I imagine it'd be stolen immediately.
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