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Private Parking Notice

JEDWARD
JEDWARD Posts: 7 Forumite
in Parking tickets, fines & parking
My first time on the site,hope I do things right!!
Had a PPN yesterday,whilst taking mum-in-law for 80th birthday lunch.Used her disability badge to park,as we do all the time when she shops.On return there was a PPN stuck to the drivers side door.The firm is Excel Parking,not the council,and says £60 now or £100 in fourteen days.I have seen stuff on this company here before.
Any advice please particularly with the disability badge being displayed
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  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
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    JEDWARD wrote: »
    My first time on the site,hope I do things right!!
    Had a PPN yesterday,whilst taking mum-in-law for 80th birthday lunch.Used her disability badge to park,as we do all the time when she shops.On return there was a PPN stuck to the drivers side door.The firm is Excel Parking,not the council,and says £60 now or £100 in fourteen days.I have seen stuff on this company here before.
    Any advice please particularly with the disability badge being displayed
    The usual advice, just ignore. Disability badges have no legal standing in private car-parks. Excel will not take you to court as they got a bloody nose last time they did that in Mansfield.
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    Same as always for private parking companies IGNORE THEM.
    Blue badges mean nothing on a private car park (in England, I think Scotland may differ)
    Neither do any of their painted lines.
    Excel don't do court (Well not after getting trounced they don't) so any threats are very much empty ones.


    Snap!!!
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • Dublindel
    Dublindel Posts: 406 Forumite
    swend it to me. I love dealing with these people. it's my new hobby. I always phone them when I get a ticket and wind them up before telling them to fly a kite. message me
  • JEDWARD
    JEDWARD Posts: 7 Forumite
    trisontana wrote: »
    The usual advice, just ignore. Disability badges have no legal standing in private car-parks. Excel will not take you to court as they got a bloody nose last time they did that in Mansfield.
    Not a private car park but a road,with no yellow lines
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    Come on, you are not giving us all the information. We don't have crystal balls, mines not due till xmas. Unless you can elaborate we can't give help.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • JEDWARD
    JEDWARD Posts: 7 Forumite
    Thanks for the assistance.I'll wait a little yet
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    For what?????
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • biscuitdunker
    biscuitdunker Posts: 375 Forumite
    peter_the_piper wrote: »
    For what?????

    :confused: Exasperating!
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    I'll let you handle this one, I'm out.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • redlooney
    redlooney Posts: 180 Forumite
    JEDWARD wrote: »
    Not a private car park but a road,with no yellow lines

    Parked on a road, no yellow lines, displaying a disabled badge and gets a PPN ??

    What a WUM ;)
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