Someone has left their trailer outside my home for three years without moving it.
I have contacted my local council, they say as long as it is registered I can't do anything (yes it is registered) plus I have contacted the police, same answer. It has a lockable compartment for storage but no one ever comes to inspect or remove anything from it.
If anyone has any suggestions as to how it could be removed I would be very grateful.
So when do you reckon you're going to pick it up?
Just like the prick, whose left his trailer there for three years then? Talk about contradicting yourself.
He's not a prick, he pays every year to park his trailer on the road. In fact he's paying to use and maintain the roads when he's not actually using them, were the pricks using the roads, causing damage and traffic.
Interesting thought. I’ve got a bunch of stuff stored in my garage that I’d like to keep but don’t use often. Perhaps I’ll get a closed trailer and register it and leave it out front of my house as permanent storage. Then I’ll get second one with aircon and use it as a gym instead of getting an extension I’ll just park it out front. Not technically illegal because I’m not camping overnight in it. Perhaps for my third I’ll build a greenhouse on the back and have a street based veggie garden. I’m sure my neighbours and local businesses won’t mind because I’m paying to use the road.
There would be room for 3 of these on the road outside my place https://www.vandemonsvans.com.au/recent-work/portable-room-s… 4 if I put on on the other side of the corner block.
@morse: Nothing stopping you from doing it, if there's parking available you can park there.
Again you think you have a right to something that you don't, hence where the problem is. You think there is an argument, there's not.
The problem is your mind set, next somebody owns a tree and it blows leaves on your roof and you have to clean your gutter once a year.
Next somebody has a noisy air-conditioning unit.
Then there's a glare of the sun roofs across the street.
Just buy a house somewhere where people can't piss you off, because they will.
@AuQld: I think it’s actually about being considerate of others so that laws don’t end up changing because people exploit them. Where I live it is legal to park caravans and trailers on residential streets but now it’s getting out of hand and so they are looking a changing the laws, which won’t be good for those who are being more reasonable.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-02/campervans-caravans-p…
On our street we all get along and don’t mind. Across the road they have a caravan parked on the street which they’ve recently sold, next door sometimes has his boat on the street, we’ve got an extra car at the moment. When we see each other we say, oh hey is my ‘caravan/boat/car’ getting in the way? and we’re all fine. If someone just put a random caravan or trailer for 3 years it would be annoying. For parking, for safety (not foot paths and lots of pedestrians) etc.
@morse: It's annoying obviously. But honestly it's none of your business, I know you think the public road outside your house is your business, but it's not, it's a public place.
Most of the fights I've witnessed as a kid is over the parking space outside people's houses. They think it's a courtesy for their neighbours to leave it free for them. It is kinda, but if there's no parking available you just park. What is the guy supposed to do with his trailer, maybe he's in hospital/stuck overseas etc..
@AuQld: I think it is OPs business, only in the sense tenth at public roads in the community are everyone’s business. I take a mild interest in things like parking zones, park up grades, footpaths etc as I’m a community member. I have no problem with people parking outside my house, in fact there’s a van there right now. Parking is sometimes full on our street so if people started leaving trailers for years at a time we’d have a problem. I park my vehicles off street, but would still like there to be some parks available for visitors. We don’t know who is behind OPs trailer but I doubt they’ve been in hospital for 3 years. I suspect it’s just cheaper than paying for a storage locker.
@morse: It's still a public road - not for exclusive use of the house alongside it.
I used to visit a friend who lived in a cul-de-sac. The blocks around the curved part were dual occupancy. So there were multiple driveways close together all around the curved part which made it impossible to park around the curve without blocking someone leaving their driveway. So naturally I'd park along the straight section before you enter the curve. There was only one house along that straight bit because it was on a corner to the next cross street.
One day some scumbag came out, without any previous warning or discussion, stood hands on hips, wagged his head side to side. I had no idea what he was on about so I kept walking. A week later I parked there again, walked up to my friends place, and as we were talking and looking out her dining room window at the street below, he came out and screamed, "DON'T F'NG PARK HERE AGAIN! BLAH, BLAH, MUTTER, MUTTER."
I was dumbfounded what the problem was. The guy, his wife, and their son had 3x cars between them, 2x of which I noticed he ALWAYS parked inside his own double garage, and while the son sometimes parked on the road where I was parked, he usually parked it in front his mother's car in their driveway. Meanwhile the bit of road alongside the front of his house where I would park, was 3x car spaces wide. So I was taking up 1 space out of 3, and they only "needed" 1 of those 3 spaces IF the son parked on the street, because the guy and his wife never did.
So I looked out the window on and off for most of the afternoon, trying trying to work out what this moron could be on about… Every other park on the road was used, at some point, except the 3x spaces outside his home. The only thing I could come up with was that their house was built "sideways" on a long but shallow block, so those 3x spaces were outside their bedroom, front door, loungeroom, and double garage…
Me: "Is he really that screwed up in the head, that he wants NO cars outside his house even though he never uses the spaces himself!?"
Well, I wasn't going to park around the corner where I couldn't see my car, and he made no rational or even irrational effort to explain what his beef was for the few hours on a Sunday afternoon that I parked there, so I thought… right… I'm not parking anywhere else ever again!
From then on every time I visited I no longer parked in other spaces people left free. I always parked outside their house, and always in a way that took up TWO spaces leaving about 1.5m before their driveway so they couldn't park between me and their driveway - they had to park behind me if they wanted to park on the street. Because he should have kept his foolish loud mouth shut in the first place.
Maybe people who don't want other people parking legally outside their home for no other reason than: I don't like it being there… should take note of the above. (Better to get over a trailer, than to have whoever own it bring home a caravan and boat to replace it.)
@[Deactivated]: I have no problem with people parking outside my house and neighbours have had caravans there before, not a problem. But if everyone put a trailer to store their stuff in on the street for several years, if not permanently, there would be no where for people to park or stop for deliveries etc. I think the trailer in OPs scenario is an unreasonable use of public space.
@morse: So if 365 different people parked their car there for 1 day at a time over year, that's ok. But 1 trailer there 365 days needs to be moved. :-D
@[Deactivated]: Yes, because in a functioning society people need to move from place to place and stop at each one. If everyone behaved like OPs trailer person it would be 365 trailers 365 days at year and 365 cars 1 day at a time and there wouldn’t be anywhere to stop. Parking spots are not designed to be permanent storage for people. That’s why some places have metered parking. And many councils have had to put in rules because of situations like this.
If everyone behaved like OPs trailer person
… they'd be lawful citizens.
That’s why some places have metered parking. And many councils have had to put in rules because of situations like this.
This isn't one of those places. So metered parking and other local council rules have nothing to do with this.
@[Deactivated]: Being a decent person isn’t just about behaving legally. There’s a lot of unpopular people who aren’t in prison.
@morse: It's a road, not the OPs private road, and the trailer owner is following the rules governing that road. It's not bad behaviour or even unpopular… it's just the OP just doesn't prefer things the ways things are. It makes the OP a self-entitled Karen. It would be different if it were obstructing him in some way like preventing access in/out of his driveway. But no. It's just: "I don't want it the way it is because I don't want it the way it is." It's shallow and arrogant, much like saying, "I want council to force the guy across the street to paint his house a colour that I like because I have to look at it when I open my blinds."
Depends on your location and if that locations authorities have taken relevant sections of the Australian road rules to use.
In my state the trailer can be towed after 7 days of no movement.
Fill it with hard rubbish
My shitty tip would be remove number plates then report it as abandoned.
Have you asked your neighbour if they own it? Maybe they would move if you ask nicely
Unfortunately Bikies don't have towbars.
They're not doing anything illegal at all. It's not your land.
Just live with it.
Tow it to council pay parking area. The owner will get the bill eventually.
I have a step-by-step solution for you.
What LGA OP?
what other exciting trailers do we have apart from the ones they keep showing for 3 years outside someone's house?
If nothing else, this thread conclusively demonstrates that NIMBYism is alive and thriving in Oz.
I also note the OP dropped out a couple of days ago. He/she has probably grasped the fact that the trailer in question (which is not inconveniencing him/her) is entitled to be parked for as long as the owner wishes in that particular location.
Buy a trailer park it outside your local mp's house. Rules will change when it affect them the most.
Install a couple of old toilets on it for special effect.
Call some bikies and the problem will solve itself
What a bunch of savages and their trailers
Come to the acceptance, that despite your neurotic entitled beliefs, you don’t own the road outside your property. Sounds like they’re getting free storage, and rent in your head. 🤣
It's not entitled - Imagine if a whole bunch of trailer owners who don't live on your street decide to permanently park on your street along the entire stretch with nowhere for say guests/others to park. Also remember there are many houses with a single (or no) driveway. How would you feel about that? Still neurotic entitled?
That's why many councils have rules where you can report parked cars for an extended period even if registered. I've reported a handful and seen them move within a few days. I think they contact owners prior to taking further action.
The OP doesn't mention any of the problems you imagine.
And the relevant council apparently doesn't have any of the rules you mention.
It seems the OP just doesn't like the trailer in its current position.
It seems the OP just doesn't like the trailer in its current position.
Nor does gimme for my perfectly rational response. 😊
Here’s an idea - Pile dog shit on the windscreen https://twitter.com/trwinwriting/status/1556405438782263296
What a great idea - except trailers very rarely have windscreens.
Oops.. you are right… lots of space for dog shit :)
Haye mate, don't touch my trailer.
He has just as much right to park there as anyone else, forever if they wish, they're paying to rent and maintain the roads it does not matter where they park.