There is an old landrover that lives in my residential street which for many months has been leaking oil when parked overnight. The vehicle is used regularly( taxed and mot'd) and is parked in the same local region most days. Recent wet weather has revealed the familiar rainbow oil spill covering a large busy area where the vehicle was last parked. Naturally, this is a dangerous skid threat.

Is this an offence?

If there are any bikers on your street, maybe talk to them?. Firstly to warn them, but also, they might have a more 'pro-active' approach to dealing with the Landy owner?!

When we had an old Series 2a back in the late 80s we always kept a large piece of thick cardboard underneath the vehicle to capture the leaks. Come bonfire night, the cardboard was a great way of starting the fire!

I used to spend many, many hours trying to fix leaks. Engine, gearbox, transfer box - you name it, it leaked if it contained oil. You could fix one leak and then six months' later another one would appear. Then the first one would leak again...

I really cannot understand why the Series Land Rovers go for such silly prices now. I can understand the Defenders more since they came with decent TDi or TD5 engines but the Series ones were pretty dire, apart from the V8 - as long as you could cope with the fuel consumption.