Parking ticket in Asda car park - Is this legal, can they take me to court?

Vampgirl

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

My MIL is a carer, and she says that in her experience you should just keep applying, it usually works if you are a valid case like your MIL.

Thanks thats really good to know...I'll keep on at her then, she has to listen sooner or later...doesn't she? :rolleyes:

consultant31

Vampgirl wrote: »

It really annoys me to see people who fiddle the system and get badges that they don't deserve, when someone like my MIL who really needs one doesn't qualify.

Its a shame we can't do the same in the town centre (council) car parks because she'd love to have the opportunity to go somewhere different for a change (she's not been to the high street for years) but the risk of a proper ticket is just too high

I don't think it's easy to get a blue badge. My Mum has severe osteoporosis, and heart disease and she had to apply twice before she got hers. The application is sent to the GP to be counter-signed I believe, so not much chance of 'fiddling' the results.

The big problem is the person who has someone else's badge (for whatever reason) and uses it for themselves.

Could you not take your MIL into town and hire a wheelchair from the local Shopmobility scheme? It's an excellent scheme and the costs are low. Alternatively, we bought a folding wheelchair from eBay for Mum that we could pop in the back of the car.

Vampgirl

consultant31 wrote: »

I don't think it's easy to get a blue badge. My Mum has severe osteoporosis, and heart disease and she had to apply twice before she got hers. The application is sent to the GP to be counter-signed I believe, so not much chance of 'fiddling' the results.

The big problem is the person who has someone else's badge (for whatever reason) and uses it for themselves.

Could you not take your MIL into town and hire a wheelchair from the local Shopmobility scheme? It's an excellent scheme and the costs are low. Alternatively, we bought a folding wheelchair from eBay for Mum that we could pop in the back of the car.

We do borrow wheelchairs where we can - buying one isn't an option though because apart from the money, she's too heavy for most folding ones that I've seen and we'd have to put the back seats down in the car to fit it in the boot so there'd be nowhere for FIL and I to sit. We need both of us at the moment to take her anywhere - one to get her into a chair and stay with her whilst the other to go off and park the car.

I don't want her to "fiddle" the system at all - people who do that are the lowest of the low in my opinion, it would just make life a lot easier for all of us if she could get a badge because she genuinely can't walk more than a few steps anymore.

Hapless_2

The application is sent to the GP to be counter-signed I believe, so not much chance of 'fiddling' the results.

If you get high rate mobility DLA then no counter signature is needed.

supermezzo

cosyc wrote: »

On Friday my husband popped to Asda to get some cash out of the mini bank. As it was raining he parked nearest the machine in a disabled bay (I know he shouldn't have done this, but it was raining and car park was not mega busy). When he returned to his car it had a parking ticket on.

At first he thought it was a joke, so when he got back to work rang Asda who said it nothing to do with them, the car park is run by a private company and they have notices up with there terms on.

So they (Town and City Parking Ltd based in Scotland) issued a civil penalty notice demanding £20 payable within 10 days or becomes £40 after. It states - failure to respond will lead to civil action being taken for penalty and judicial expenses occurered. All verythreatening.

So is this legal or just a con to try to obtain money from us and other like us?

How will they find out who we are from the registration number would DVLA disclose this to a private company.

Any one come across this before?

Pay the fine or don't - that's up to you. It will make no difference to any poor s*d that night with a legitimate reason for using a disabled parking space who either had to struggle by parking in one of the less accesible bays or maybe didn't even go shopping at all.
Sorry if you think that I'm being a bit OTT about it but tbh, getting wet through is no fun for anyone, but certainly not if you are in a chair or struggle to walk a distance in good conditions, let alone wet and slippy pavements.

LuciferTDark

bluejake wrote: »

In fact why are poor people discriminated against, surely they should get their groceries free. In fact maybe we can all live off the back of the one poor sod who works and pays taxes to support all this nonsense who cannot get parking space to buy a sandwich in his 30 minute lunch break because all the spaces are set aside for those people with all the time in world to pick up their benefits and park in their special parking spaces.

I seriously hope you never have anything happen to you to put you in the position of needing to claim benefits or need a disabled bay. But if you do then you'll know what a shortsighted blithering idiot you come across as in the post I've quoted.

neiljc_2

I am a training manager specialising in disability awareness and disability discrimination.

One of the biggest issues for disabled people is accessible parking and i think accessible bays should be better managed to allow them to be used properly.

For instance I am aware some Asda car parks have an automatic number recognition scheme that allows only cars entered on a database to enter the accessible parking area.

ANd we are are being conned a little bit here, why do the supermarkets continue to call them disabled bays?

literally that means a bay that does not work! if they changed the wording to accessible bays then quite rightly we would alll want an accessible bay.

Surely all of us should be asking the supermarkets to provide parking spaces to everyone that allows us to get into and out of the car without banging the car next to us - i.e accessible bays for everyone.

It is better for them if they get us to keep having a go and blaming each other for the issue

And this charge is not a fine just an invoice, most of the private parking companies have, as del boy would say, "hookey" practices and do not follow much of the law whether civil or criminal themselves.

their operation of these contracts are not to ensure parking for other people but to gain as much revenue as possible for themselves.

DO NOT PAY

If you want authoritative (damn how do you spell that?) advice just follow whatever advice sarahg1969 suggests ( we are not worthy )

reginald_2

I don't know if you have seen this link
http://neilherron.blogspot.com/2007/10/things-not-fine-in-asda-car-parks.html

peter_the_piper

If they are really interested in making sure the bays are kept clear for the appropriate people then announcing on the tannoy and asking the driver to move would clear the spaces far more quickly than giving a ticket. Embarrassment is a very good deterrent. An invoice will only boost their finances.

Tim_Deegan

peter_the_piper wrote: »

If they are really interested in making sure the bays are kept clear for the appropriate people then announcing on the tannoy and asking the driver to move would clear the spaces far more quickly than giving a ticket. Embarrassment is a very good deterrent. An invoice will only boost their finances.

You are forgetting one thing........the sort of people who park in those spaces don't really care what other people think, because they think they have some sort of god given right to park where they want.