Neighbour parked on my drive

[maltesersplease]

In February, neighbour/friend gets clamped and fined for no tax, MOT, insurance. Asks if she can park on my drive a few days until she can afford to sort it all out.

We fell out over something else a few weeks ago over something much more serious, and don't speak anymore. Don't need to drip feed, this part's irrelevant.

The car is still on my drive. I've asked her to move it, she says she will SORN it. Car doesn't start either so I can't just move it myself. If she SORNs it, she will never move it! It's still not taxed or MOTd.

So now I seem to be stuck with it on my drive. Each of the police, DVLA and council have told me it's one of the other responsibilities.

I'm feeling really irritated by life in general and if I wasn't worried it would harm a person, I'd have taken the handbrake off it by now!

(This isn't AIBU to remove the handbrake, it's more of a "I'm really fed up can anyone help please?).

What if the window was broken by vandals who accidentally released the handbrake and when you returned you found it on the street?

That wouldn't be you putting it on the street?!

If you have told her you no longer give her permission to keep the car on your land, this might help?
www.gov.uk/guidance/abandoned-vehicles-council-responsibilities

Is there anyone else you could ask to speak to your neighbour? A friend in common or someone similar.

What are you going to do op??

I don't know what to do. Seems like everything will get me in trouble!

Didn't realise you can't SORN if financed. Tried calling them but they will only speak to the owner 

maltesersplease have you told them that (what is technically) their car has been abandoned on your property since February?

out a massive FOR SALE sign on it, with a ridiculously low price on it.

YOU are fine to roll it into the road, it's her that won't be as the legal owner.

So just roll it into the road.

Roll it onto the road. For sure.

It is the council’s responsibility to deal with abandoned cars on private land. Only difference from abandoned cars on the road is that they give the owner 15 days to remove it rather than 7.

www.confused.com/on-the-road/driving-law/how-to-report-abandoned-car

Are your council saying it’s not an abandoned car because you know who owns it?

I’d put my massive bins near the car. And on rubbish collection day once a week, I’d always be a little clumsy when pushing them past the car. Nothing serious, just a new superficial scratch, just once a week.

Oh, and I might put some old flower pots on the car, just because it’s in a handy location for gardening.

Maybe a few bags of compost.

A few bags of leaf mould.

Might let my toddler paint it (by accident).

The cheek!! I would tell her you've arranged to have it towed and impounded (call her bluff) I doubt she knows you can't actually do that.

Just be careful about moving it - she could claim you have damaged it by doing so then the trouble would all be yours. It’s a total no win situation 🤔

@SkydivingKittyCat yes...data protection...owner...data protection blah blah

If slap a great big 'Free, new owner to collect sign on it!' bet that'll make her move it!

I’d take some photos and put it on your local Facebook site and gumtree for sale, including her details as the contact. That’s just for fun though 🤣

I had to look up SORN on Google. I wish posters would understand not everyone is in the U.K or understands all these MN acronyms -which makes reading difficult.

Here in the U.S landowners have the right to call a towing company to have unauthorized vehicles towed away. The towing company can pop in next door and ask her if she owns is because she will be responsible for the towing costs.

Tell her she has 24 hours to move it then phone the scrap yard and get it picked up. Her problem not yours. Long ago I lived next door to a house about to be reprocessed and they left an old mini van on drive, it hadn't moved for years. Scrap man knocked on ours to find out about it and I told them to take it - they did. Nothing came of it.

Tell her you're going to advertise on www.parkonmydrive.com and tell her you'll start charging her a daily rate of £££ from next Monday. Weekends will be at least double, of course.

What @PotteryLady said

Thing is with data protection it means they can't tell you anything but they should be able to listen to you. If you ring up and say "I'm not expecting you to respond but X has a car on my drive, I am giving seven days notice to move it and after that it will be bumped into the street to be clamped and towed", they may do something.

I had to look up SORN on Google. I wish posters would understand not everyone is in the U.K or understands all these MN acronyms -which makes reading difficult

SORN is not a MN acronym!

I’m not in the uk so have no idea if this applies, but DP was saying something about this the other day (I was half listening) that if the car has plates on it and is on private land the police can’t touch it in case there’s an agreement in place, but if there’s no plates on it then it can be reported as abandoned and police can tow it.

Don’t know if that’s true in the uk but might be worth finding out?

She was fined for no tax, MOT or insurance back in February but hasn't moved the car off your drive since then, so you don't know the vehicle's status since? is that right?

She's got a nerve not moving it after you've specifically told her to.

Did you check the reg against
www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-tax

Yes the current status is the same. She doesn't hide her behaviour.