You can report nuisance parking
problems to us via email at
environment@waveney.gov.uk
or by telephone on 01502 562111
What is Nuisance Parking?
Some garages and businesses place cars for sale, for an extended
period, on the street, and in lay-bys. This can cause a significant
nuisance to local residents and takes up valuable car parking
spaces. The same is true with vehicles that are repaired on the
street, which can also look unsightly, can lead to damage of the
local environment (for example when oil is spilled or leaked) and
may also present a danger to passers by. The Clean Neighbourhoods
and Environment Act 2005 introduced legal controls over these
activities.
Selling Vehicles on the Road
The offence of selling vehicles on the road is intended to target
those people who run a business selling motor vehicles and use the
road as a mock showroom. This behaviour is unfair to local
residents and neighbouring businesses who are thereby deprived of
using the road themselves to park vehicles and go about their daily
lives.
A person commits an offence if he leaves two or more motor vehicles
parked within 500 metres of each other on a road or roads where
they are exposed or advertised for sale for the purposes of a
business of selling motor vehicles. It is not intended to target
occasional individual private sellers of single
vehicles.
Repairing Vehicles on the Road
The offence of repairing a vehicle is also aimed primarily at those
that act irresponsibly as part of a business and who are attempting
to use the road as a mock workshop.
A person who carries out any works for the repair, maintenance,
servicing, improvement or dismantling of a motor vehicle or of any
part of or accessory to a motor vehicle and works for the
installation, replacement or renewal of any such part or accessory
on a road in the course of a business is guilty of an offence. This
does not apply to private individuals who are carrying out minor
work to their vehicles or those who carry out necessary work to
vehicles by the side of the road in order to get them moving again
after a breakdown or accident.