Got home last night to discover the council has served a Removal notice on all 3 cars outside the house 
And the best part? I've 24 hours before they're removed and crushed
Under the The Removal and Disposal of Vehicles (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 they're now entitled to remove a vehicle which, in their opinion, has been dumped or abandoned. They define abandonment as follows:
- Are the tyres flat?
- Is there any litter, weeds, etc. under the vehicle indicating that it has not been moved for some time?
- Are the brake discs rusty?
- Is the windscreen or any of the windows broken?
- Is mould present on either the inside or the outside of the vehicle?
- Does the vehicle contain items of waste, for example tyres?
- Does the vehicle have a number plate?
- Do local householders, businesses, councillors or the police know how long the vehicle has been there and do they have any knowledge of who owned/abandoned it?
There's also a chance of going to prison
And according to Mr Council Man the vehicles are, in his opinion, abandoned. He couldn't tell me who reported it, but I've got a good guess. So I'm off this lunchtime to buy a new electric footpump and get the 2 flat tyres sorted, which I'm sure have only recently gone flat. But then, as I said to the guy at the council, not that he seemed to give a monkeys, I've had other things to worry about over the last 18 months 
, but that, in his words, isn't an excuse, people die every day.
Better get on and check my SORN declarations are all up to date too.
Surely, if your SORN declarations are current - and the cars are on your drive - you're OK? I comment since, in retrospect, I'm somewhat concerned; my first Rover would have scored about four or five out of eight on those criteria. Possibly more if external and internal mould each count.
And I drove that Rover pretty much every day for three years.