"MIG" wrote in message
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On 20 Feb, 11:48, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, wrote:
On Feb 19, 6:27 pm, MIG wrote:

I am wondering what legislation allows street parking anyway. I mean,
you can't store other furniture in the street that you can't fit in
your house, so parking cars seems to be a special case, which must be
well defined somewhere.

I've thought that there must be a market for "motorized sheds" that you
could just park outside your house.

Obviously there would be costs involved, at the very least, VED,
insurance and MOT. But presumably they could be electric vehicles with
very little range so probably no VED. Given that they're going to be
very low mileage there's probably the opportunity for a cheap specialist
insurance. And surely it can't cost all that much to get them through an
MOT each year given that they're hardly ever driven.

I see from wikipedia that:

"limited use" and agricultural vehicles are exempt from test altogether.

If that's true, if your electric shed was an agricultural electric shed
(an electric greenhouse?), you might not need the MOT. Or does that mean
agricultural vehicles which don't go on the public highway? And what's a
limited use vehicle?

Okay, here we go:

http://www.nfuonline.com/documents/B...nsport%20116%2...

To be an agricultural vehicle, it has to fall into one of four specific
classes, and i can't see that a mobile shed would. Limited use means
(quoting):

* It is used for purposes relating to agriculture, horticulture or
forestry; and

* It is used on public roads only in passing between different areas of
land occupied by the same person; and

* The distance it travels on public roads in passing between any two such
areas does not exceed 1.5 km.

There, i think we're in. You have to have two gardens (one could be rented
from a friend), or a garden and allotment, less than a mile apart. You
then build your electric shed in order to drive between them. You keep
your gardening tools in it, so it's for horticultural purposes. Or you
build a mobile greenhouse, as i mentioned. Either way, it meets the
criteria, it's Limited Use, and you don't have to MOT or pay tax on it.

Crossposted to uk.rec.sheds.


For some reason I read that as "Composted ...".

That would be to uk.rec.gardening........

Steve