Lude Generation

Hi Folks,

Got a bit of a dilemma developing I don't have a proper driveway where I live - my house is the middle terrace of 3, and we share a tarmac area off of the road out to the front of our houses. This in itself isn't a huge problem, we all get 2 spaces to park each. However, tomorrow my Accord GSi is arriving home... and I already have 2 cars in the off road parking, both on SORN as the Prelude needs some work done for the MOT and my Golf is just slowly rotting I have nowhere to put the Accord, which is also without an MOT and tax. Now, it just so happens my road is on an estate that was built on some land behind my old secondary school sometime between 2001 and 2006. The three roads the estate consists of don't go anywhere at all, they're all dead ends and as a result have not been adopted by the local authority. However, they're not private either like at my parent's house where I used to store cars on the street. I'm wondering though, can I keep a car on an unadopted road even if it's on a SORN? I can't seem to find any definitive answer anywhere, has anyone here had a similar experience?

Cheers,
Josh

I probably wouldn't risk it.
Even if it was ok, chances of average mr plod that sees your car, knowing it's an unadopted road and that it's ok for you to park on it with a SORN'd car etc are slim-zero?

If it's public access. I.e not your own property, no

http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/sn00402.pdf is a note re unadopted roads. Basically, the roads can fall under the same laws as the public highway if the public use it. A zealous officer could make your life difficult.

You write: 'not private'. Do you know who owns the road(s)?

I have my Prelude on bricks on an unadopted road. police drive past my street every day, dvla have also driven past it many times im sure, and wardens patrol sometimes. i havnt got anything on my car and it looks like a scene from new york.

its sorn'd it off.

my other cars i broke on that land had clamps because i never sorned them.

but since they werent in my name, the clamps disapeared

No idea who owns the road, I think it's probably a housing association. They do sometimes let the residents buy out the maintenance responsibility on these kinds of developments if enough people club together, I've no idea if that's happened here though.

I'm in two minds about the whole private road thing. I used to live on a private road, but theoretically 4 households plus our guests had free access to the road - and we're all members of the public right?? Could my Accord have been impounded??

Thinking about it, my mrs is a project manager for a housing association and her brother holds a masters in planning and works for the council as a planning officer... I should probably have mentioned this to them before now

Might just park the Prelude on the street under a car cover

i would say you could probably still get done as its a public highway. The fact it is unadopted just means its isn't maintained by the local council but i would have thought the normal highway laws still apply, if not i think we just found ourselves a new drag strip

good luck draggin on my street, if you pull off too quick you will end up with parts of your car dragging behind you