Several residents in a Purley street have complained to me about a motorhome which has been stationary for several months, and was allegedly occupied by a family with connections to a nearby address. Residents reported seeing people enter and leave the vehicle at all hours of the day and night, and seeing the motorhome’s toilet contents being emptied down the rain-water gullies followed by some disinfectant, which smelled for hours afterwards.
It was possible that vehicle, vagrancy, public hygiene & public safety offences were all being committed here, and I also had concerns about safeguarding of whoever lives in the motorhome. I arranged that a Neighbourhood Safety Officer should call both on the house and on the motorhome; at the time of the call, surprise surprise it was being thoroughly cleaned, and there was no evidence of anyone living in it.
The problem is now unlikely to recur, but I hope that the very act of launching an investigation will have alerted the owner to the regulations applying to motorhomes parked in the street.
