When can we use our vehicles?

Can you not have it serviced at the storage

I don’t think so but I don't know which country of the UK you're in. 

This applies to England -

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-response-spring-2021/covid-19-response-spring-2021-summary

Same here.  We will head out to the coast where we can park, walk and have lunch in the van.  Probably do about a 40 mile round trip.  

 We're in Northamptonshire.

Thanks for the link... I'm not yet finding anything specific there about movement of vehicles for maintenance purposes, though it's quite possible I've missed something.

Hmm, maybe I'll just have to get the guy to visit the Storage place after all, once I've visited myself to take the cover off the 'van.  I find it much more useful getting feedback from him on the spot, but I'd rather have it serviced.

Thanks again,

Effectively, on 16 March you will still be governed by the 21 Jan rules of only Ieaving home when necessary for essential reasons.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home

The only changes coming in on 8 March bear no relation to your situation, HH. 

I've just read the advice on p66 of the March Club magazine, which includes. "If taking your vehicle for a service [ .... ]  It's usually permissible to travel to businesses which are allowed to be open" etc.

And from the link to gov't advice:
"Essential activities
You can leave home to buy things at shops or obtain services where necessary." 
"Where necessary" is a very grey area,  isn't it?

We also need some sealing work done, and I spoke on the phone to the guy, likewise local, whose workshop we plan to use for that. He's had customers bringing their own vans in throughout, and no reports of any being stopped.  So that seems to offer hope, though I suppose it still depends on how reasonable Mr Plod is feeling.

I'm currently inclined to follow JVB's suggestion of the service engineer working at the storage site, (15 miles from here), but taking the 'van myself to the bodywork workshop, which is less than 10 miles from here.

The Association of Chief Police Officers have maintained a line since the first lockdown of the rules being almost impossible to enforce and this was reiterated around December when the legal requirement to wear face masks was introduced.

The Police interventions have largely been confined to breaking up large gatherings, house parties etc at a time when the transmission rates were going through the roof.

There has long been a recognition by the behavioural scientists advising SAGE that mental health will suffer; the need to avoid hitting the NHS with a shedload of mental health referrals within 5 minutes of the pandemic subsiding to manageable levels makes it unlikely that any heavy handed policing will take place. Very much a case of 'don't take the Michael', I suspect.

Steve

Click and collect is legal....

Personally, I would take the line that, if the dealership is open for service and repairs, then it must be permissible to take and collect vehicles.  Otherwise there wouldn't be any point in them opening - if folk weren't allowed to take and collect vehicles, the service/ repair department wouldn't have any vehicles to work on....

David

On our beach front at Tichfield Haven there are currently 5 MH's, in the car park at Stubbington, which i pass on my way down, there are a further 4, I am sure there would have been more but the LC have put large stakes in the grass verges where MH's used to park I suppose they could say that is their regular and only mode of transport ?