Just a little bit of Eeyore-ish musing:
I have just called our local council to report an abandoned car which has been sitting at the end of our road for at least a month. Car is not taxed and has been clamped - by DVLA I think from the worn sticker on the wheel clamp.
So, very nice lady at the council office takes the details, then tries to put me through to the correct dept, can't get through, so takes all the details again, converses with her colleague who advises her that because it has been clamped someone knows about it so technically, it is not abandoned. Not therefore council responsibilty but she says she will pass the details to the "waste management" team to follow up.
Call me a cynic but I'm fairly sure that will be the end of it, so I asked who I should speak to if it is still not removed in a week or so - she says, speak to the police or the DVLA. Which puts the onus firmly back on me. GRRRRR.
Why will nobody ever take responsibility?
Tilly x
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If its not taxed then it should be towed away.On the other hand its probably a stolen car so surely it needs reporting to the police.
Elizabeth
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no ones definition of your life
Define yourself........
Harvey Fierstein
I'm sure that, in the end, I will end up reporting it to the police - but our local PCSO is good at following up on things so he will be my next port of call I think.
I'm like a dog with a bone with things like this though so it WILL get sorted one way or another!
Hope you are having a good day.
Love Tilly x
hope this helps
WHY do we bother?!
I would go to teh DVLA, but part of me thinks knickers to it :roll:
Love
Toni xx
Toni xxx
do you think anyone else in your street have reported it or do you think leave that for some one else to sort out.
joan xx
joan xx
The council will investigate whether the vehicle has been abandoned and will check to see whether it has been stolen or involved in an accident. If the vehicle has been abandoned on a road, including private roads and estates, the council will remove the vehicle.
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/WhereYouLive/Streetcleaninglitterandillegaldumping/DG_4001703
Email your local council's Chief Executive, (look on the council's website), and ask why nothing is being done after you have taken the time and trouble to report it. Tell them that you and the press are monitoring the situation and you expect action, you have had enough of empty words. Quote the section of information given above and request removal within 7 days. Give them a time limit and if they don't stick to it complain again and ask for a copy of their formal Complaints Procedure.
Joseph 8)
one Joseph!!
Tilly that should do it
Toni xx
Toni xxx
Based on your comments I'll give it a week and then try local police/DVLA. It's not in the way but I just feel that one abandoned car is the start of a slippery slope and, before you know it, the street will be littered with cars up on bricks, dumped sofas etc etc
Thanks all!
Love Tilly x
The forms arrived today on the first day of the summer holidays! i did sort before hand after lots of chasing around.
Elizabeth x
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no ones definition of your life
Define yourself........
Harvey Fierstein
Elizabeth - glad the forms arrived - eventually!
DD - like your approach to "for sale" vehicles. We have the same prob round here although not usually in our street. But we have had vandalism problems generally in the road- one night I looked out of the window to see a lad undoing his trousers in preparation for weeing over the back of our car!!!!! I shouted out of the window like a fishwife and he ran off.
Tilly x
Resuuult! Car towed away this evening to the local scrap dealer!
(Oh ye of little faith Tilly!)