How do I find out the registered address of a vehicle "dumped" outside my house?

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Its Taxed but has not moved for over a month now.

Was willing to put up with it but we now have a disabled bay outside (for my mother) which they had to paint around the dumped car.

We put a very polite letter under the windscreen to ask for it to be moved but the letter is still there. I think there is a good chance the vehicle is owned by someone else from another street.

I vaguely remember a little "trick" that was posted here to find out the registered address of a vehicle but can't remember how it worked.

Its just so I can politely knock on the owners door and ask for removal before I have to go through a long winded process with the Council.

Any help appreciated. :)
 
[TW]Fox said:
If its taxed, it isnt dumped, and it has a legal right to park there unless it is causing an obstruction.
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Interesting point. If a disabled bay has been painted around it, is it now illegal whereas it wasn't before it was parked?
 
I suspect what he means by 'painted around' is that the bay is now a little further up the road than it would otherwise have been - I can't see the council getting away with painting a bay around an otherwise legally parked car.
 
What a ridiculous thing for them to do. What if the owner had returned the vehicle soon after the council had left and then drive through the wet paint?

It's taxed, so it's legally parked.

I am also 99% sure that, legally, residential disabled bays carry no legal weight and are just a courtesy thing.
 
Yes, I am fairly sure that unless a bay is persistently parked in (and then you can apply for some sort of order) that it is more or less a courtesy thing.

Point is, this bay is needed and I am sure the owner would move it if they ever bothered to actually come to our street to check their car out.

Legal or otherwise it has been abandoned there. Its not even an old car, only a few years old.
 
There is also the possibility that it has been stolen then just dumped? Perhaps the owner is looking for it :D
 
Phone the police and mention that it's been there for a while and you suspect it may be stolen.

Might spark up some interest in it and they may contact the owner.
 
Sp00n said:
Phone the police and mention that it's been there for a while and you suspect it may be stolen.

Might spark up some interest in it and they may contact the owner.
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Agreed 100%.

Just buzz your local nick and give them the reg number and tell them it has been there 4 weeks and they will run relevant checks.
 
If you ring the police on the non emergancy number they will often sort these types of thing out. Particularly if the owner is local, they will just knock on their door and ask them to shift it.

Dunno whether parking in a disabled bay is a towing offence, but it maybe worth a quick call to the council as well.
 
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