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Hey ya.. I was not sure which forum this may come under. My appologies if this is in the wrong place.

 

Tonight, the police/local authority's decided to remove our car under a clean up scheme. No letter through the door explaining why, the first we noticed was when my husband was going to work at 5.45.

 

He returned home and rang the police who informed him they had called out a recovery company to remove the car, and they had every right to do this.. im sorry, but if someone takes a car isn't that called theft??

 

The car was still in MOT and taxed until the end of this month. It was in the car park around the corner from our house.

 

The only thing i can think of as why they took the car was it had been broken in to a couple of weeks ago and the drivers door window was smashed in. We covered this up best we could until we could afford to get it replaced.

 

The police are not willing to talk to us about this, only repeating they have every right to take our car and for us to ring the recovery company, which unfortunatly is closed now.

 

Luckily we have 2 cars, so my husband can still get to work.

 

i am unsure what to do now, i have a really bad idea that the recovery company are going to ask for money to release the car, money we just don't have. We can't even afford a replacement window!!!

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My husband has just spoke to the police again and the car was taken by the COUNCILS request to huntingdon. £150 release fee plus £20 a day storage fee.

 

I think we are off to the council tomorrow to see what they are playing at.

 

Any advise with this would be very much apprciated.

 

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You need to find the reason they saw fit to remove a legally taxed and registered car first off. A broken window does not make a car abandoned and I believe they have to attach a notice to it giving 14 days to remove to it will be removed.

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I have read through the neighbourhood clean up scheme which i downloaded from defra's website..

 

quotes from it...

 

defintion of abandoned

 

© Stationary for a significant

amount of time

it has been in the car park since xmas as that is when it got broken in to. We have moved it a couple of times to make sure its still running.

 

(d) could include vehicles

with flat tyres, wheels removed

or broken windows.

as i stated before, the window has been broken due to some oiks trying to nick the car.

 

35 Under a change introduced by the

Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment

Act, a 15-day notice is not required

where a vehicle is abandoned on a ‘road’

(within the meaning of section 142 the

Road Traffic Regulation Act 19843).

Section 142 defines a road as (in England

and Wales) ‘any length of highway or

of any other road to which the public

has access, and includes bridges over

which a road passes.’

This is a wide definition, and includes

not only public rights of way, but also

ways to which the public has access

by permission of the landowner, rather

than by right. It therefore includes access

roads through estates that are owned by

organisations such as housing associations

or by the residents who live there

It covers both the carriageway and the

footpath, but a car park would not

normally come within the definition

of a road as its function is to enable

people to leave their vehicle.

 

This makes me beleive they have taken the car illegally.

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