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Car with SORN parked on private land Crushed by local council because DVLA told them there was no current Sorn
Some friends of mine were left a flat and a car when there father died some years ago. The flat has needed some work done on it so has been empty and the car has been standing on the parking space that goes with the flat on private ground. My friends do not live in the flat infact they live several hundred miles away. As I have a computer I have raised a Sorn on the car for the last few years. My friends were contacted by the local council where the car is because one of there street officers had seen some dumped items (old washing manchines etc) around the area and saw the car which they also thought was abandoned. When they checked the rates for the property they wrote to my friends and were told that the car was on sorn and was not abandoned. The council wrote back and removed the items but left the car. That was last Jan 2009. I tried to do a sorn two week ago as the latest would run out on the 1st March 2010 but could not. DVLA said they had info but we would have to write on for it which we have just done. The police said they had no record of the car being stolen but confirmed that it was not parked at the private location of the flat so raise a crime report
The council after a week of phone calls said at last that some people complained about the car that they believed had been dumped the council checked with DVLA WHO TOLD THEM THE SORN HAD RUN OUT IN FEB 2009. But I have in writing from the DVLA a Sorn letter dated 11 Feb 2009 stating a valid sorn till 2010. So the council towed the car away and had it crushed and were about to send out a bill of £230 pounds which now they agreed they would not. Who should my friends chase for compo the council or DVLA ???
Re: Car with SORN parked on private land Crushed by local council because DVLA told them there was no current Sorn
After being told to write to the DVLA to get the info they would not give over the phone they have replied that I need to fill out a V888 form and pay £5 for any info and theuy want to know what I am going to do with the info. Still getting info from the council. Once I have there comments I will fill in the V888 AND MATCH THE ANSWERS
Re: Car with SORN parked on private land Crushed by local council because DVLA told them there was no current Sorn
I never cease to be amazed at the information covered by data protection, when it suits the council.
If your friends have given you written permission to sort this out on their behalf then a copy of that letter should be all that is needed for the council to give you all the information they hold about that car. If not, get your friends to submit the request - it is their car, so how can data protection stop the information being divulged to them?
The data protection act is not a get out clause for any council/company/body not wanting to give out inconvenient information.
Car with SORN parked on private land Crushed by local council because DVLA told them there was no current Sorn
said at last that some people complained about the car that they believed had been dumped the council checked with DVLA WHO TOLD THEM THE SORN HAD RUN OUT IN FEB 2009. But I have in writing from the DVLA a Sorn letter dated 11 Feb 2009 stating a valid sorn till 2010. So the council towed the car away and had it crushed and were about to send out a bill of £230 pounds which now they agreed they would not. Who should my friends chase for compo the council or DVLA ???
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