if a car is registered as off road.....

[crisgal]

....can we move it onto the road outside our house, to make roomon the drive for a necessary skip? My husband says not, but I say yes.
Please say I'm right!

[lardhelmet]

Your husband is right. Off road means just that - off the road.

[thelewisgang]

this should help you but I agree with crisgal it not be on the road

http://www.direct.gov...urVehicle/DG_10021514

[crisgal]

b@ll@cks!
I HATE it when I'm wrong - good job it doesn't happen often!

[lardhelmet]

Ballacks? What a lovely word!

[crisgal]

lol

[New Judge]

Just out of interest, crisgal, what made you think that a car decalred off road (and hence not liable to have vehicle excise licence) should somehow be allowed on the road in these circumstances?

I'm not taking the pee, I'm genuinely intrigued.

[crisgal]

because i thought that it would be ok to move it, so that the builders lorry with jib, could get to the side of the garden. As there is nowhere else to move it to, I wanted to risk putting it on the roadside for a couple of hours and felt sure that, as it would only be temporary, we would be allowed. As we live in a small culdesac, there was no other way to get the supplies into the garden.
My husband was very worried that a traffic warden would appear out of nowhere and book him!

When I go to pick up my kids from school, I park behind a very old banger, complete with grass growing in and around it. It's parked on the road without any tax disc and has been there for two years that I know of.

So I thought that I would get away with it. I thought that wardens would make a judgement on each case.