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Beware great yarmouth parking , fined disabled driver

palgrave124
palgrave124 Posts: 80 Forumite
in Motoring
Beware today i drove into market square council car park, placed my blue badge in the window as usual came back to the car only to find a parking ticket for £65 along with loads of other disabled drivers as apparently from today they stopped the free parking for disabled drivers , went straight to the council office and they told me the signs are up now ,the signs had been put up but they are up high under trees, lived here for 11 years never had a parking ticket in my life , but the travelers in loads of caravans have been parked on the coach and car park in great yarmouth totally free for days until they where removed by the police on Saturday ,the irony of it ii i had just gone to the post office in the town centre to buy a stamp to send off my renewal for blue badge as the post office near where i live has been close down, i am a pensioner , the government gives it to us in one hand and takes it out of the other has any one else been caught like this !
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  • tomstickland
    tomstickland Posts: 19,538 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    It sounds worthy of a story in the local paper.
    Happy chappy
  • palgrave124
    palgrave124 Posts: 80 Forumite
    tomstickland wrote: »
    It sounds worthy of a story in the local paper.
    I wish, how many others are going to get hit with this fine, people have come here for years on holiday how are they to know, some holiday for them with a parking ticket, the council must have made a fortune today and the week has only just started, thanks for reading
  • palgrave124
    palgrave124 Posts: 80 Forumite
    tomstickland wrote: »
    It sounds worthy of a story in the local paper.
    I wish, how many others are going to get hit with this fine, people have come here for years on holiday how are they to know, some holiday for them with a parking ticket, the council must have made a fortune today,
  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 19,088 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    What a generous, kind, caring, thoughtful, understanding council. I shall definitely support them and next time I come to the East Coast I will visit LOWESTOFT!
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • palgrave124
    palgrave124 Posts: 80 Forumite
    lincroft1710 wrote: »
    What a generous, kind, caring, thoughtful, understanding council. I shall definitely support them and next time I come to the East Coast I will visit LOWESTOFT!
    and i will not be far behind you thanks
  • darrenforster99
    darrenforster99 Posts: 35 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    palgrave124 wrote: »
    Beware today i drove into market square council car park, placed my blue badge in the window as usual came back to the car only to find a parking ticket for £65 along with loads of other disabled drivers as apparently from today they stopped the free parking for disabled drivers

    I think all people with a blue badge should get down to Great Yarmouth and park on the double yellows for 3 hours and bring GY to a stand still until the council gets it's act together.

    There is a similar car park in Warrington at Time Square, although it's signs are way too confusing, I don't park there I park around the corner in the Market car park. When you enter it says that everyone needs to pay except blue badge holders parked in the blue badge bays (3 of them which are always full, and really narrow, with a narrow gap to get through a load of bollards to get to them, so not designed very well - I'm slightly autistic with hand-eye co-ordination problems and the person that has the blue badge is my mum who needs extra space to get out of the car, which with the width of the bays this is not possible), and despite the signs saying on entry that blue badge holders parked in blue badge bays don't need to pay, there is signs on the blue badge bays reminding blue badge holders that they do need to pay (so are they delibratly contradicting themselves to hope that someone gets too confused and ends up with a fine?)
  • palgrave124
    palgrave124 Posts: 80 Forumite
    that a great idea all parking on yellow lines would realy bring town to a stand still ,just noticed on google.;press release G.Y.B.C.Disabled drivers to get better parking provisions , where not here fooled again .
    Whats your ares like please post let us all know what your council is up to
  • palgrave124
    palgrave124 Posts: 80 Forumite
    darrenforster99 wrote: »
    I think all people with a blue badge should get down to Great Yarmouth and park on the double yellows for 3 hours and bring GY to a stand still until the council gets it's act together.

    There is a similar car park in Warrington at Time Square, although it's signs are way too confusing, I don't park there I park around the corner in the Market car park. When you enter it says that everyone needs to pay except blue badge holders parked in the blue badge bays (3 of them which are always full, and really narrow, with a narrow gap to get through a load of bollards to get to them, so not designed very well - I'm slightly autistic with hand-eye co-ordination problems and the person that has the blue badge is my mum who needs extra space to get out of the car, which with the width of the bays this is not possible), and despite the signs saying on entry that blue badge holders parked in blue badge bays don't need to pay, there is signs on the blue badge bays reminding blue badge holders that they do need to pay (so are they delibratly contradicting themselves to hope that someone gets too confused and ends up with a fine?)
    i agree with you there ,the trouble is we dont seem to be able to do a thing about it
  • terryya
    terryya Posts: 603 Forumite
    Whilst sympathasing with the OP with the unclear change of policy I do wonder why all blue badge holders should be entitled to free parking. I've no problems at all with having disabled bays in car parks and on streets so that disabled people can park in conveniant placed with easy access but don't think that it should automatically free.

    I've a grandparent who is 100% confined to a wheelchair so I am not totally ignorant of the problems faced. However, she is an a much better position to be able to afford parking charges than anyone else I know!

    I'm not trying to cause an arguement or anything, it is just my thoughts on this issue.
  • palgrave124
    palgrave124 Posts: 80 Forumite
    terryya wrote: »
    Whilst sympathasing with the OP with the unclear change of policy I do wonder why all blue badge holders should be entitled to free parking. I've no problems at all with having disabled bays in car parks and on streets so that disabled people can park in conveniant placed with easy access but don't think that it should automatically free.

    I've a grandparent who is 100% confined to a wheelchair so I am not totally ignorant of the problems faced. However, she is an a much better position to be able to afford parking charges than anyone else I know!

    I'm not trying to cause an arguement or anything, it is just my thoughts on this issue.
    how on earth would you know what position i or any one else is in , when it comes to finances , this was about knowing and being informed
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