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hello tef

some utter cunting spaz has left a car in our flats car park, which is private property according to the council. apparently it's  SORNed this until april 2012. does anyone have any clue about this stuff as i'm miffed and want to take action!

Do you have a management company that look after the leasehold?

Off road notice.

If you have a car which is not taxed but isn't being used you can declare it off the road as far as I understand.  Coppers wont stick a notice on it.

Would have thought if its nothing to do with anyone in your flats and its private property you could get rid of it removed.  

Key it

I reckon that bird who couldnt get out because of that mattress has put it there as revenge for you not picking it up

yuppers, and the useless cunts will basically do nowt. i've asked them to arrange clamping just like the sign the cunt has parked it under. cunts

Is it one of the residents cars? Or just some random?

it could get mysteriously damaged, so a law abiding person like yourself Bennett will then rightly call the police.

A quick google (i.e. not expert opinion) suggests that its legal to SORN a car if its on private land, like your car park.

I guess if the management company aren't doing anything, and it is not a car that belongs to someone in the flats then you are snookered.

If the car did find its way to the road that would be different ;) Illeagal to move it of course (sshhhh. loose lips sink ships).

the council have said he lives locally...

i'm very tempted to find it one morning having had it's tires slashed and a massive dump steaming on the bonnet

yeah i had a google search, it appears the owners of the land can ask for it to be moved, but nothing more.

hmph

So when you say "our flats car park", did you mean the space allocated to your flat - or do you mean a communal car park?

a communal car park

If it belongs to someone in your flats then its fair game. Is it a shitheap of a thing?

I guess that's slightly better than your actual space, but I assume car parking is a PITA.

Go mental, lift their windscreen wipers up. Break in and leave their interior light on. That'll learn 'em.

Brake fluid.

it's not owned by anyone in the flats. the car is an 06 plate suzuki swift

Is it red?

DV!

thankfully not

Tow it Tow it Tow it!

Tennis ball trick to get in, let the handbrake off and push it elsewhere. Or leave some fish in the back

Mines a 57!

We've got 2 abandoned cars and a moped in our flat car park. It was raised at the first residents meeting in 2 and a half years and the management company said there was bugger all they could about it.

Management companies are just a waste of time and a rip off.

Tape a messege to the windscreen and inform the owners that if it is not moved then it will be soon.

To whom it concerns...this car should not be parked here and if it is not removed immenently then a local scrap dealer will be brought in to tow away the car to be scrapped.
If this dosn't do the trick then i would tow it myself to a council car park where you can guarantee it will be dealt with by the police or council.
If they dont live in the flats it shouldn't be there and you and other residents are well within your rights to move it.

there's already been a notice stuck the windscreen for months from the housing association threatening action

What does SORN stand for?

Standard off road notification.  (Standard may be wrong, actually).

Statutory

Smelly old rape ninjas

I had one dumped at my flats, a few weeks later and it got stuck on the back of a scrap truck. Unbeknownst to the owner/dumper.

Cheers Si.

I'll help you carry it on to a public road for the reward of a lamb dansak and a beer.

Put a window through and tell the police its a fire risk,they'll soon have it shifted.

Then its got to go then. :crash: :crash:

Some tool parked a car on the pavement down my road in June. Left it there until last week when I reported it to the council as abandoned and to the dvla as untaxed. It was declared SORN. The pavement is still the road though. Stupid thing is it's a '71 plate and can be taxed free. Surely if you are filling in a form you might as well tax it rather than declare off road.  It's now on their drive...

No idea what to do if it's in a private car park.

Just thought I'd share.

I'm assuming the person who left it does not have off road parking!  I wonder if it's insured? If so, why would you insure a car and not use it?

Thats' the point though. Now you have to have a car taxed whether or not you use it........... Unless you SORN it

I would love to be a fly on the wall in one of your resident meetings.

The fact it's SORN is pretty irrelevant.  It's still illegal to park on private property whether it's insured or SORN.  The only reason the management company aren't acting is presumably they can't see any profit involved.  The local council may move it if you whine to them, as regardless it shouldn't be there...

Phone the police, tell them there a bomb planted under it. It'll soon go, although you may not be able to go home for a while.

Its got to be the management company that sorts this, given they own the land.

I'd keep badgering them/threatening to withhold fees until they do their job.

i sent an email to the director yesterday, which i will follow up shortly with my communications with a hapless oaf at SBC