Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,727
Cut the roof off and it would make a good skip.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,294
Here's a car that's slowly disappearing in Bartholomew Street.
Incidentally, if you have 8 minutes to spare have a look at this:-
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Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 1621- Registered: 17 Dec 2015
- Posts: 32
Unsure if this will affect vehicles that have been here for some time:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/11149851/Foreign-drivers-tax-loophole-to-close.html
Quote:The registration details of thousands of foreign drivers will be shared with the DVLA and police for the first time to crack down on migrants who avoid tax and motoring fines.
"All is flux, nothing stays still." - Heraclitus of Ephesus
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The pilot scheme ended in February and we don't know how many vehicles were caught, a bigger issue than the road tax is one of roadworthiness.
Guest 1621- Registered: 17 Dec 2015
- Posts: 32
I agree, but would have thought that the scheme may have covered such issues if the DVLA were really concerned.
Quote:"The trial will naturally help to make our roads safer as it should reduce the number of foreign vehicles being driven in the UK without MoTs in an unroadworthy condition."
Of course the glaringly obvious problem with this is that a foreign car is (presumably) registered in the country it came from, and this does not mean that it is automatically linked to a UK address. So how fines are administered is a mystery to me.
The obvious answer is to give the car a notice that it is abandoned if it is not registered beyond the six months, and/or has no MOT. Clamp it, tow it, crush it. But of course, at more cost to the public.
"All is flux, nothing stays still." - Heraclitus of Ephesus
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,727
More cars are being dumped around the streets as in post 22.Scrap metal is now almost worthless,a coupe of years back a scrap car would have made at least £100+.
Guest 1621- Registered: 17 Dec 2015
- Posts: 32
Well maybe a few quid towards the towing away might help. Do you know if that's a value just for the metal, or a vehicle that's broken properly?
"All is flux, nothing stays still." - Heraclitus of Ephesus
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,727
General price for scrap iron is now no more than £10 or less per ton,a big difference to what it was.Last i heard regarding cars was that you could leave them at the scrap yards free of charge but they wasnt paying anything for them.It could have since changed as scrap prices rise and fall daily.I know this is right as i have friends in the scrap business.
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,205
Sounds right Andy, about 8 or so yrs ago it was £50 dropped of at the yard, but since new environmental measures it became almost not worth their trouble, you get a better deal at a breakers yard old wrecks were selling for a couple of hundred at that time but I don't suppose breakers yards are buying any with the current abundance on our streets!
Arte et Marte
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Been pushing his/her luck for some time, ticketed by a warden this morning.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The owner has seen the error in his ways and now moved his car to the other side of the road - onto a different set of double yellow lines.
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,386
Do you think that the fine will get paid?
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,205
Do you think they'll even bother chasing him for it?
Arte et Marte
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,386
I would possibly think about a 3 strikes rule. "3 parking tickets then you're clamped" At least it would get rid of a few.
There is a clamped car in Matthew's Place today, but the foreign car outside the ex-church at Beaconsfield Road is still there.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Normally the car is parked in the grounds of Alexander House, a care home named after a former member who happens to be the founder of the "Anglian National Socialist Party".
Parked right up by the entrance needed by the ambulances who regularly attend.
Andy B- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,727
Thats the one mentioned in post 15 at around November time,the beaten up Astra estate.Seems like if you,ve got a foreign plate then you can just do what you want and those driving such cars seem to know that.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
The car pictured in post 31 is back parked on double yellows again so we can safely assume that any fines won't be paid.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,294
At last. DDC have placed a seven day removal order on the car. Yippee!
BTW the inside is now accumulating rubbish bags!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,205
Only taken 3 mths, and now they now the council are going to take it they might as well get rid of the rest of their junk, thats quite a good service!
Arte et Marte