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The farmer in that example would still be prosecuted as the land still was a right of way, so therefore still a public highway.If the untaxed and uninsured landy is off the actual right of way and on his private land next to the right of way then i cant see there being a legal issue. The only sticky point i can see is the boundary issue. How do you define where the right of way ends and his private land begins. Best argument there would be that the bit that is mostly worn through driving is the right of way and everything else isnt.
just to keep this thread dragging on at the beginning someone said they thought it was illegal to offer a car for sale at the side of the road. Only if another car withineither 50 or 500 yards (can't remember which) is also been offered for sale. to stop homebased 2nd hand car lots springing up.With regards to insurance there must be a valid certificate insurance on the car before anyone can drive it on their insurance. If you get a producer off the plod it says on the back, that producing your insurance alone is not enough and you must produce a valid policy for the car as well.
If the farmer owns the road, whether it's an ORPA or not, he can store and drive his own vehicles on his own land, including parking on the road that he owns without paying road tax or having it insured, all he has to do by law these days is SORN it.These plonkers that want to close the route to motorised traffic have to realise that he is entitled to spread muck down both hedges of the lane twice a day if he wants to, it's his land.Especially if they are causing a bit of a stink over his Landy.
What was the result?Police request to Council?What possible right had the Council to interfere with a legally sorned vehicle parked on private land?Sounds like a legal precursor for the NCP lot, but this time it was sorned!I presume the vehicle/land owner is taking the Council to court?
This is why this country sucks. Where your private land is no longer private :(The other thing i hate is that if the council want to regenerate an area, they can force you to sell your house by getting a compulsory purchase order. So it means even if you own your house basically at the end of the day you dont :(
To my knowledge there is only one policy that will allow you to drive any car, even if it has no insurance and that it a trade policy and it should be accompanied with trade plates.