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Need advice - caravan left in our field.

39 replies

LoonyLurcher · 16/05/2022 17:15

My family owns a tiny field.
For reasons only known to himself, a certain family member spotted an enormous abandoned wrecked caravan and towed it to our field, breaking an axle getting it in, and leaving it there.
He was planning on taking it away, but has lost his license to drink driving.

I’ve spoken to several scrap yards, who do not take caravans.
Caravan breakers, who will only take caravans that can be towed.
On the advice of a couple of scrapyards I rang the council, who won’t have anything to do with it as it’s on private land.

The caravan is huge, double axle. It’s waist deep inside in interior wreckage and rubbish.

How the hell do I get rid of it?

OP posts:
Tulipvase · 16/05/2022 17:20

Family member needs to dismantle the caravan and get the waste removed.

WeeOrcadian · 16/05/2022 17:25

Freegle - the new owner to collect only?

AperolWhore · 16/05/2022 17:57

Facebook marketplace, free diy project collection only…job done!

or even a sign at the field saying caravan free to take!!

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IanOsenfrote · 16/05/2022 18:40

Burn it.

lisavanderpumpscloset · 16/05/2022 18:47

Set it on fire

lisavanderpumpscloset · 16/05/2022 18:47

Oops xpost!

Original poster
LoonyLurcher · 18/05/2022 17:05

Burning it is tempting… only drawback is the mess it’ll leave.

I had a quote for it to be removed - £900!☹️😱

Family member has form for doing stuff then washing his hands of them.

OP posts:
Summerofcontent · 18/05/2022 17:16

LoonyLurcher · 18/05/2022 17:05

Burning it is tempting… only drawback is the mess it’ll leave.

I had a quote for it to be removed - £900!☹️😱

Family member has form for doing stuff then washing his hands of them.

Then your family member needs to sort and pay surely

Berthatydfil · 18/05/2022 17:22

Can you identify the brand ?

I would have a look look on eBay and Facebook market place for the caravan make and model and see if there are bits for sale such as the windows sink cupboard doors toilet to see if you can sell the parts or even offer for free if buyer dismantles .

I needed cupboard handles and a bathroom sink for mine and I ended up paying £70 from a breakers.

AllFreeOwls · 18/05/2022 18:32

I'd stick it on Facebook, someone will come and collect it for free.

Original poster
LoonyLurcher · 18/05/2022 19:24

It’s not fit for rehoming, and more than a project.
Most of the windows are broken, an axle is broken so it can’t be towed. The interior is ripped out and piled up inside and it’s not water-tight.
Family member should indeed be sorting this, but short of calling the police or taking him to court, expecting this is highly unlikely.

OP posts:
DrFoxtrot · 18/05/2022 20:15

I'd be tempted to break it up as much as possible and put pieces in family members garden. How awful.

JuneOsborne · 18/05/2022 20:17

Get the biggest skip you can. Get the biggest crowbar you can. Get some heavy duty goggles and gloves.

Break the fucker up and put it in the skip.

Oblomov22 · 18/05/2022 20:19

Get family member to pay, to have it moved back to where it was. Was it on the main road?

KarenLovesRosario · 18/05/2022 20:36

Firstly burning it will do nothing except send horrendous toxic fumes everywhere, the glass and metal and insulation will go absolutely everywhere and you'll never ever get it tidy. Believe me I've seen it so many times
Advertise the hell out of it..then if no takers only option is to dismantle and take bit by bit to the dump.
Feck sake please don't set fire to it.

KarenLovesRosario · 18/05/2022 20:39

PS
If it was just me I'd leave it and do it up as a storage place or whatever

Bluebruin · 18/05/2022 20:56

I'd be careful with this OP, you might not be allowed to leave it there long. My relative bought a similar caravan & put it in a field he owned, he didn't realise though that it needed planning permission... PP was refused so he had to cut his to pieces & take it to the dump.

veronicagoldberg · 18/05/2022 21:17

Torch it.

Mummyoflittledragon · 18/05/2022 21:19

Inform him in writing he has 28 days to remove the caravan in its entirety otherwise you will pay for removal and take him to court to recoup costs.

Herejustforthisone · 18/05/2022 22:33

We had a dumped caravan. I found a guy, based on Oxford I think, who specialises in old caravans. There are salvage yards that will take them.

Herejustforthisone · 18/05/2022 22:34

veronicagoldberg · 18/05/2022 21:17

Torch it.

Don’t do this. Because then you’ll be peeling bits of melted plastic, toxic insulation, and warped mental off your land, rather than a broken but ultimately scrappable caravan.

Herejustforthisone · 18/05/2022 22:37

I got £350 for a 30+ year old Elddis. It was absolutely fucked, too. And he drove to me to collect it. I think I found him on Facebook. Christ knows what he did with it, short of breaking it down for scrap.

BarbaraofSeville · 19/05/2022 06:45

In reality, no-one wants a truly knackered old caravan. It's junk that costs money to remove and dispose of.

If you can't sell it in the condition it's in, or even give it away, then the owner who dumped it there needs to pay for it's removal.

Send them a letter telling them to remove it or you'll do it and take them to the small claims court to recover the cost.

MissBattleaxe · 19/05/2022 06:52

Stop telling the OP to get the family member to remove it. They are massively unlikely to do this. She's said so several times.

BarbaraofSeville · 19/05/2022 06:55

Well the OP could report it as fly tipping then.

The council will remove it and hopefully there's evidence in there about who it belongs to and they'll be prosecuted and heavily fined.