Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
having a car forcefully towed car from unadopted land - what's the law?
Allegedly, someone who claims ownership of a parcel of land at the end of our street, has threatened to call up a mate of his with a tow truck and have a parked car removed from this land and taken away.
There are no parking notices on this land and as far as we know it's unadopted land.
I've taken this is a guide:
http://www.theaa.com/public_affairs/reports/parking-tickets-private...
So would the tower and the person who booked to tow truck have committed an offence?
I'm looking for legal advice on the cheap or some advice from people with experience of these matters :-)
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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First move, take a load of photos NOW to show no visible notices. If they are reading this, they will stick up notices to cover their backs.
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Not good enough, they need to be current. Google Earth could be from years ago. All digi photo files will have a date and time stamp. Take pics of all walls etc from different angles. This sort of thing used to be a useful small source of income for me in pre-digital days. In fact the evidence was my witness statement saying I had attended and taken the photos, which showed etc etc - rather than the pics themselves, which still bemuses me.
Don't mess with the files at all - if you can get someone to take RAW files ie with an SLR, that would be better if it comes to a dispute. Otherwise, I could take pics of a wall full of notices and then show you a print of an empty wall... (I could also have done this with film, but the negs were the evidence.)
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so now the owners can see what they need to say in a sign, if they are reading this they will now be printing off copies to get up on the wall as quickly as possible. Your friend can claim for all sorts of incidental costs - loss of earnings? taxi fares? as well as refusing to pay any fine. Taking the vehicle is theft, if they do not keep to the law. I'm not sure if they can legally move a car off the site if it is just trespassing, that could be the case if they don't do any damage. They would have to move it to where it's not causing an obstruction. I'm thinking of the times when my car was mysteriously moved to the next street when there was an 'incident', done by the police-managed tow trucks but not charged for, I had to call the tow-away company to find where it had gone.
If a car is obstructing your driveway you can call for a police tow truck to move it. So they would be able to ask the police to move the car, but not touch it themselves, if this is not signed as being Parking Forbidden but the car is obstructing their land.
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You can look up who owns land or building by going to the Land Registry website and paying £3. You scroll around an online map and just click on the spot you want to track.
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i found who owns the 'wasteland' on the railway embankment in Seven Sisters that was planned for a development of 158 dwellings. Every bit of land is owned by someone.
There are options on that Land Registry site to get the boundaries of properties too, so even that small patch should be able to be tracked down.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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One owner? Several owners? Company(ies)? Interlocking directorships? https://www.duedil.com/
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