How can this be fair?

The fact the council has stuck a sticker on it saying 24 hours to move unfortunately doesn’t guarantee that “tomorrow it will be moved”

How are you explaining to viewers that your garage is blocked in by a seriously vandalised vehicle @Jenkibuble ?!

Is it taxed? You can check here:

https://www.gov.uk/get-vehicle-information-from-dvla

If not then report to DVLA as an untaxed vehicle, and they are usually fair quick to clamp and remove it.

Let’s hope the viewers don’t want to check out the garage!!!

This happened to a pal of mine and she paid a few neighbours in bacon sandwiches and tea to come and lift it off her drive. Funnily enough when they dumped it in the middle of the road and left it there the council were very prompt in removing it.

Has a friend got a 4x4? Get them to drag it off the drive and the council will deal with it if it’s on the road.

The police should be involved anyway as a crime has taken place. The car has been stripped. I would phone the non emergency number say that you are blocked in and a crime has taken place. If they try to fob you off, say you will write to your MP about it.

Omg stop asking OP why she didn’t force the bloke off the driveway. All these incredulous responses are so unhelpful and make the posters sound really dense.

She has already answered this.
She was on her own and wary of getting into a confrontation with an unknown male, he reversed out to let her get her bike and she believed he was leaving.

What a pointless and insensitive question.
Some people live in areas with very high rates of crime and ASB. You must know that such places exist, even if you've never lived in one or had cause to visit them.

Why on earth did you ask him to move back and not get fully off your drive?!!

did you put it on your local facebook?

I don’t understand why the police are doing nothing - if the car is blocking access to the highway they can get involved. As your car is blocked in, it is.

you’ve never seen the guy before? This is so weird. I would gather some strong men and push it on to the public highway, that way the police deal with it but I would also be nervous that this guy knows where you live.

We had two random men parked on our drive a few days ago. We have a driveway and share the middle bit that goes down between the houses with the semi next door. I arrived home with my son on bikes and there was a random car parked on the shared bit, blocking the way to the back gardens. We couldn't get through as it was parked quite tightly between our car and next door's. One door was open and two men were in the front seat on a video call or watching a video. It stank of cigarettes.

I had to tell them we couldn't get through and could they move and they could park on the road. They reversed into the road and when we put our bikes away I could see through the window they sat there with the engine on for a good 30 minutes. They did leave though.

I've never had a random park on the driveway before and there was only just space between our cars. There was loads of road space.

Sorry, OP, no help, but wanted to share my own recent tale of strangers parking on driveways. It just seems so weird! I mean, how would you think it was a public parking spot?! Nowhere near any shops or anything other than houses!

And infuriating for you that no-one can deal with it for you and yet you're not allowed to get it towed.

Email your MP

Admittedly not a drive but I used to live in flats near a train station that was a 20 minute train to London. We used to get commuters parking in the underground car park, allocated spaces all the time. Then there was a rash of someone 'renting' the spaces out online despite having no claim to the private spaces. Several residents had strangers in their underground space for a couple of weeks while the owners went on holiday in London. Management could do nothing but issue fines, police and council weren't interested because it was private land and the residents were advised that they weren't allowed to clamp/move/risk damaging the cars as they'd then be liable for interfering with someone else's property! Seems like a massive legal loophole.

So your house is on the market and now you have an abandoned ransacked damaged car on your drive! Oh dear, that's not going to help sell it.

Clearly hidden in plain sight what with the police not seeming to care.

And the car is not taxed? Or did I misread?

You need to spend your time looking to move

a car parked on private property - broken in to and stripped within hours of being parked there?!