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| pcoote Member Since: 01 Aug 2010 Location: Oxford Posts: 83   
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This was news to me, just took some bits to my local council tip, there was a council worker there clocking the cars going in. He stopped me and said i needed a 'van permit'. I have been to this tip loads of times before in my old TD5 90 with no problems, I could see a 110 Station wagon already in there. I now drive a 110 Utility wagon, this guy showed me a list of pictures of vehicles now requiring a permit, and there was the same picture Landrover first put out of the Utility wagon, it was the same picture I first saw of a utility wagon so it was a fare cop. I don't now if this is just a Oxfordshire thing, but it is a new rule starting on 1st November, the permit is free at least for now, but I wonder for how long?
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14th Nov 2010 6:44pm |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610 
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It most certainly is NOT just an Oxfordshire trait! I have an XS with tinted windows and was asked whether I had seats in the back at my municiple tip! If not I would have had to use the van entrance and be weighed in and out on their weighbridge! In Dorset's case you are only allowed one visit per day in that instance! They have been operating them rules for some considerable time! If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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14th Nov 2010 6:54pm |
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| Mad Cow Member Since: 27 Oct 2009 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 292  
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As someone who used to work for a Council in Waste Management, I can confirm this is very common.
Unfortunately there is no legislation per se, so every council makes it's own rules. Basically it is to prevent commercial waste being tipped for free at "Household Waste and Recycling Centres" to give them their proper name. My last Council (in Essex) used to use height barriers at 5' 10" to keep vans out, a real pain in a Defender! Funnily enough my local tip (in Hertfordshire) has a permit system for vans (and trailers) but I've never had any trouble in my Hard Top. I suspect the metallic paint and alloys makes it obvious it's not a "commercial" vehicle. Or maybe they don't have "show and tell" books like Oxfordshire  MAD COW
2007 90 Hard Top - 2009 BMW F800GS - 2002 CCM 604E Dual Sport Project90 |
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14th Nov 2010 7:55pm |
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| bm52 Member Since: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Kent Posts: 2189 
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can'r get Defender in my local tip the barrier is so low - 1.8m I think BM52
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14th Nov 2010 8:54pm |
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| mse Member Since: 06 Apr 2008 Location: UK Posts: 5035 
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Very common - more and more, but it is to stop commercial and usually you can get round it legitimately as its only to stop commercial use, not household use. Also because of the £ cost
The issue usually is height restrictions - ive never tried the defender though Mike |
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14th Nov 2010 11:44pm |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897 
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Our local tip has a barrier.
If I want to drive in I ask the attendant and he opens it. Have you tried? |
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15th Nov 2010 12:27am |
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| diesel_jim Member Since: 13 Oct 2008 Location: hiding Posts: 6092 
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My old tip fitted a height barrier once. at that time i was driving a 110 CSW with a roofrack on, so there was no chance that it would fit underneath.
"they" (the operatives) instructed me that they opened the barrier every tuesday and thursday morning, but that wasn't good enough for me... i pay my rates every friggin day! so i just parked and blocked the entrance until they did open it |
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15th Nov 2010 7:50am |
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| mse Member Since: 06 Apr 2008 Location: UK Posts: 5035
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Never needed to - i just use one of the other cars - im sure there is a way round. Mike |
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15th Nov 2010 8:37am |
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| Ads90 Member Since: 16 Jun 2008 Location: Cots-on-the-Wolds Posts: 809 
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Ours has a height barrier that the Landy won't fit under, but they open it on Sundays so I just go then.
I presume the thinking is that there are no commercials working on Sundays - not exactly true, but I guess the numbers are low enough not to bother with... |
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15th Nov 2010 9:27am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17353 
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Many moons ago (long before these tiresome modern restrictions - it would have been late 1970's) I took a load of concrete rubble to the local tip in my Series One 86" sotftop. I sailed in under the barrier with several inches to spare, unloaded the concrete, then found I couldn't get out again! It was a Sunday, the tip was unmanned, and the entrance/exit for lorries and vans was in a different place, not accessible from the car entrance area.
In the end I had to take off the tilt and remove the hoodsticks to get out. At least in this case the vehicle was (and actually still is) a softop. |
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15th Nov 2010 9:35am |
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| Caterham Member Since: 06 Nov 2008 Location: Birmingham Posts: 6298 
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lucky it was a soft top.......
otherwise you could simply have put the concrete back in an come back another day......  |
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16th Nov 2010 1:55pm |
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| discocuzzy Member Since: 16 Jul 2008 Location: surrey Posts: 1200
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Just fly tip the load at the gate..its what all the scummer pikeys do at my local tip
You cannot teach stupid people to do clever things |
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16th Nov 2010 8:38pm |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897
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CCTV  |
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16th Nov 2010 9:29pm |
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| alantd Member Since: 14 Dec 2008 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 1513 
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I think I keep the recycling quotas up at our local tip so they're ok with me coming in - even with the Sankey.
That said, I was just helping my father-in-law today at a different center and the Sankey was more than 4' long so required a permit. By that time, however, I'd already unloaded so it was a little bit pointless. One that started out as a 2.4 TDCi 110 XS + New Defender 110 First Edition |
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20th Nov 2010 10:07pm |
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