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

ben500

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

You said that because there are so many people who flout the system by using dodgy blue badges, that it is an excuse for people to park in disabled spaces.

No I didn't, you may have read that but I certainly didn't type it, try reading the post in question again.

ben500

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

We are getting off the point here.......it's simple, it is morally wrong, so don't do it.

You may be getting off the point but I'm certainly sticking to it, the "point" as you put it is this.......
Parking ticket in Asda car park - Is this legal, can they take me to court? »And the correct response to the point is .
No, it is not a "parking ticket" it is a penalty notice, and no, it is an unenforcable penalty under contract law therefore you cannot be taken to court.

Morals are not a consideration for the answer legalities are.

You've made several comments along the lines of if you don't have a blue badge hard luck don't park there.
The same principle could be applied to the issuer of the penalty notice, if you don't have legislation to back you up hard luck I'm parking there.

ben500

Bring back the old blue three wheeler meschersmidtt invalid carriages and see how many people want blue badges then. I gaurantee you the numbers would plummet overnight.

andyrules

ben500 wrote: »

No I didn't, you may have read that but I certainly didn't type it, try reading the post in question again.

I read it like that too.

You haven't answered my question, Ben, how do you suggest the bays are kept for the needy? And how are the needy to evidence that they need to be there to stop the lazy folk?

If you have a better system up your sleeve - let's hear it;)

ben500

andyrules wrote: »

I read it like that too.

You haven't answered my question, Ben, how do you suggest the bays are kept for the needy? And how are the needy to evidence that they need to be there to stop the lazy folk?

If you have a better system up your sleeve - let's hear it;)

I don't know what your feeling so smug about, last time I looked the provision for accesible and adequate disabled parking wasn't in my remit but I will check my job description for you.
Don't hold me responsible for your misinterpretation of my words I said no such thing.

Tim_Deegan

ben500 wrote: »

I don't know what your feeling so smug about, last time I looked the provision for accesible and adequate disabled parking wasn't in my remit but I will check my job description for you.
Don't hold me responsible for your misinterpretation of my words I said no such thing.

Well if you have any moral values stop telling people that they can park in disabled spaces and get away with it. How about trying to put people off?

ben500

Tim_Deegan wrote: »

Well if you have any moral values stop telling people that they can park in disabled spaces and get away with it. How about trying to put people off?

There you go again, I've not advocated to anyone to do so have I? I have answered the op's questions truthfully without spicing it up to meet my own agenda, have you?
Should I have lied and said the penalty notice is enforceable? Should I have lied and said the penalty notice is a fine? Should I have lied and said that it is prosecutable?

My morals are not the subject of debate here, the legalities of penalty notices are. I'd examine your own morals all you seem to be concerned with is using scaremongering to disuade people from using the spaces and view the law as merely an obstacle to that end.

MrsBartolozzi

While I would not park in a disabled bay I have on several occasions been left with nowhere to park as I witness a car displaying a disabled badge (with the disabled person in the car) ease into the last "able bodied" space foregoing the 3 disabled spaces left vacant nearby.
What does everyone think of this?
Surely it works both ways??? The carpark I am talking about is a small one serving only a local library so not a big multi storey in a busy city centre. I would have to wait for a space or park a good distance away and drag children alongside a busy road to access the library - so who is selfish here?
Discuss.

sarahg1969

What's wrong with that? If they feel they don't NEED the space, why should they obliged to use it? It seems to me that the driver was being considerate to other blue badge holders who might really need the space.

MrsBartolozzi

sarahg1969 wrote: »

What's wrong with that? If they feel they don't NEED the space, why should they obliged to use it? It seems to me that the driver was being considerate to other blue badge holders who might really need the space.

So in a car park with about 10 "able bodied" spaces and 3 disabled bays it is fair to do this? So it is more likely that 3 disabled people will be looking to park before 1 able bodied person/ disabled person (when disabled bays are all full)?