parking fine

greenface

OrangeSteve wrote: »

Yes, you need to pay it.

I could have eaten a bowl of alphabetty spaghetti and crapped a better response to that . Read the Thread

BFG --- !!!!!! ---UTS I dont think there has been much blue bashers in this thread

elfen

If you have a blue badge, aren't you meant to display it anytime you use a disabled parking space? Or is that just me being thick and thinking people would

trisontana

elfen wrote: »

If you have a blue badge, aren't you meant to display it anytime you use a disabled parking space? Or is that just me being thick and thinking people would

Yes, in a proper council controlled parking space. In a private car-park "disabled spaces" are completely meaningless, although non-disabled drivers should show common courtesy to disabled drivers by not parking there.

Coupon-mad

trisontana wrote: »

Yes, in a proper council controlled parking space. In a private car-park "disabled spaces" are completely meaningless, although non-disabled drivers should show common courtesy to disabled drivers by not parking there.

Trouble is, just to cloud the issue and confuse their victims even more, plenty of PPCs now put signs in Supermarket disabled parking bays saying 'Blue Badge Holders only'. Then other similar car parks patrolled by the same scumbag PPCs just say 'disabled parking' or whatever.

No tickets issued as a result of 'abusing' those rules are enforceable in law of course - not that I ever condone non-Blue-badge holders parking there BTW!

But to answer elfen, I guess the reason most people might think that it's a requirement to display your Blue Badge on private land in a disabled bay is simply because people see such meaningless signs so often that they tend to believe it.

Just like people used to believe they might have to pay any PPC ticket...but the worm has turned now on this forum at least. :rolleyes:

leslie_b

ok this is it very near to payment day £40 is it really safe for me to ignore
or easier just to pay up also what would happen in the future could this be brought back with some other dept collector in months or years to come
advise please

Coupon-mad

leslie_b wrote: »

ok this is it very near to payment day £40 is it really safe for me to ignore
or easier just to pay up also what would happen in the future could this be brought back with some other dept collector in months or years to come
advise please

It is safe to ignore! It isn't a fine it's a scam. Would you pay a Nigerian Prince if he emailed you asking for money?? Easier (and much cheaper!) to delete the emails IMHO, think of the letters from the PPC as similar junk, only by snail-mail.

You should get 5 or 6 letters, each one looking more scary than the last, then they will go away.

Just to warn you, the last couple of letters will probably be from a Debt Collector or even a Solicitor. Don't worry, Debt Collectors have no extra power to actually collect money, and the Solicitors won't actually take it to Court - their letters are just used for scaremongering. Don't confuse Debt Collectors with Bailiffs. Bailliffs can only be instructed after a Court orders you to pay (the PPC won't even chance Court though, because the 'fine' is unenforceable).

You won't get a CCJ or anything at all. This will not affect your Credit Record.

Keep their threatening letters though. The likelihood is you'll get letters for a few months and that will be it but it's always in your interests to keep threatening letters - even for a disputed or unenforceable debt - for up to six years (filed of course, they are not worth worrying about and they are very unlikely to write again after the usual 5 or 6 letters).

HTH. Please, please don't pay money to these scammers when all you have to do is file some letters. Keep posting about the letters that you get on here if it helps - then when it's all over tell your friends about this scam!

leslie_b

have written back saying I was not the driver

greenface

leslie_b wrote: »

have written back saying I was not the driver

you do whatever you want to do and dont listen to a scrap of information kindly provided by people who in a whole know what they are on about.

PLEASE FOLLOW THE ADVICE YOU ASKED FOR AT THE START

peter_the_piper

greenface wrote: »

you do whatever you want to do and dont listen to a scrap of information kindly provided by people who in a whole know what they are on about.

PLEASE FOLLOW THE ADVICE YOU ASKED FOR AT THE START

Unfortunately this is Martins advice , I don't necessarily agree with it but the OP is quite entitled to listen to it. Where there are two or three different bits of advice you have to choose what to use.