Lee Boyce

You can do this on the gov.uk website.

Run the registration through the free vehicle inquiry service.

It will instantly tell you if it's taxed and has a valid MAT.

If both are up to date...

The owner is actually legally entitled to park it on any public road where there are no parking restrictions.

And actually, that's the other thing that happens, right?

The council start throwing in parking restrictions in places because of things like this.

So, again, around my area, near the station, you know, this big car park for the train station, people don't want to pay for parking, so they inevitably go down other roads.

And so...

for example it'll be like a 10 to 11 a.m you're not allowed to park on this side road but they start i think they start spreading it out elsewhere because of things like this because people get fed up anyway so if either is lapsy you haven't been able to having able to kind of

get them on that you can report it to the DVLA untaxed vehicles on public road can be clamped impounded ultimately scrapped can happen within weeks that doesn't happen contact local council ask them to investigate whether it's an abandoned vehicle explain the circumstances how long the vehicle has been left attended and why you believe the owner has now left the country

the country so basically there's all the evidence that you've got councils have power under the refused disposal immunity act 1978 to remove vehicles that appear abandoned after serving notice if the van is causing a genuine obstruction or danger which it actually does sound like in this uh

case you can also report it to the police on 101 so not the emergency hotline but on 101 as a highway obstruction and finally check whether your road has any parking restrictions you may have overlooked agreeing with your neighbours to report the issue together carries more weight than a single complaint I think that's key you know I joked around there about all the neighbours kind of all the rubrics they've gone to France but you might not have evidence of that and maybe a neighbour does it's strength in numbers Georgie I think if there's 10 of you saying this van is parked here and it's a complete nuisance

hasn't been touched, I think it does carry a lot more weight than just feeling like it's just a petty one person fed up with something.

Hi, Georgie.

Can I just say, when I saw this on social media, it had that, do you remember that white dress, gold dress thing where some people saw that it was a white dress, some people saw it as a gold dress?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The whole of the internet was divided according to news reports.

And that was about 10 years ago.

It gave that vibe.