Abandoned Vehicles
About Abandoned Vehicles
If you see a vehicle that you think has been abandoned you should report it to the police, or use our online Abandoned Vehicle Reporting Form.
They can then make the relevant checks to ascertain whether the vehicle has been stolen and establish who is the current keeper.
If the vehicle is confirmed to be abandoned, the local authority requesting the issue of a 24 hour removal notice.
More and more vehicles are abandoned each year due to:
- The depressed value of second hand parts
- Social changes
- Increases in
- Non-taxed
- Non-insured and
- Non MOT'd vehicles
- Increase in vehicles used for execution of crime
- Increased public awareness
- Higher motoring cost
- Rigid enforcement of parking regulations
All abandoned vehicles are a nuisance but not all nuisance vehicles are abandoned!
Abandoned vehicles may appear for a variety of reasons:
- Death of owner
- Owner moved away
- Long term residency outside UK
- Detained at her Majesty's pleasure
- Insurance fraud
- Vehicle breakdown
Notification of nuisance vehicles by the general public is rapidly increasing and there is little or nothing the local authority can do about nuisance vehicles such as:
- Poorly parked vehicles
- Vehicles causing obstruction
- Neighbour disputes
- Residential parking disputes
- Vehicle breakdown
