Parking in Blue Badge spaces

taffy056

MR_ANGRY wrote: »

Hi - can anyone help with this - My father (79 years old and disabled) parked in a disabled bay in B and Q using a blue badge. He came out and found the car had a ticket on !!!
He also discovered that the car had been damaged on the front. The blue badge was in the footwell. So looking at it logically, rather than help my father by asking the person who damaged the front of his car with, we presume, a trolley, for insurance details, this 'helpful person' decided to ticket the car with £100 fine - five minutes recorded on the ticket.
As you can see the trip to B and Q was a streesful time.
My questions are these :
The ticket has no date on - how are you suppose to count the 14 days timescale allowed ? Is this illegal
The colour of the car was recorded wrong - is this legal ?

I have written to the company - UKCPS - they have said they are not listening and will enforce the debt through the courts. They have 'kindly' offered to reduce the fine to £44 and enrol my father in a disabled scheme - very generous indeed.
As we have not admitted who the driver of the car was, they have said that my father will be 'made' to tell the judge' etc etc etc. Bully boy tactics .....
I am not happy as you can imagine - ----

Any help appreciated from the forum
thanks !!

This makes me so annoyed with these scammers, they prey on the elderly and disabled and harass them into paying a ticket that is not enforceable, then mobilise gets in on the scam and profits out of money swindled out of people very often illegally, they increase their membership and those funds are used to tell disabled people lies, the disturbing part of this is that they know its lies.

Basically Mobilise are a PPC scamming people out of money, its like some twisted pyramid scheme where the money is used to ensure that the next victim is scammed, UKPC are the middle men gleefully gaining by being legitimised by a scam charity.

Strong words against Mobilise I know, but its got to be said because they are knowingly party to this - shame on you Mobilise !

sarahg1969

[UK]Blitzen wrote: »

That will be because you are:
1. Extremely fat
or
2. Extremely lazy
or
3. Extremely ignorant

but most likely, all of the above.

or
4. Disabled
?

lucylucky

[UK]Blitzen wrote: »

That will be because you are:
1. Extremely fat
or
2. Extremely lazy
or
3. Extremely ignorant

but most likely, all of the above.

Or perhaps none of the above, just a concerned citizen highlighting the uselessness of parking spaces provided by supermarkets which have no legal standing. Possibly if the spaces have a notice stating that they are for "blue badge holders only" LilacPixie is parking there to point out the fact that the supermarket may well be in breach of DDA legislation.;)

sassy_one

Firstly, you can simply ignore the notice that was left on your car as it is merely an 'Unenforceable' Invoice, nothing more.
By not paying it, will not render you liable to any court action as may well be threanded against you or any affect on your credit rating.


Secondly and lastly, Why did you feel the need to park in a Disabled Bay, when quite clearly, you knew you did not have a Disabled Blue Badge?

You claim that you saw people with Blue Badges parked the those bays who could walk/move better than you at that time, I stress at that time.

If you feel you are entitled to a Blue Badge, apply to your local council (Details can be found on your local Council's website)
However, you had no right whatsoever to park in that bay, none whatsoever.

That is like me saying, I have a family so I will book a trip on the train against a discounted set of tickets online, inputting I have a Family Railcard, if anyone asks I just say I have a family and am entitled to a card but don't want to apply, it doesn't work that way.


In future, use your head and don't park in spaces you are clearly NOT entitled to park in, unless, which I seriously doubt you will reading what you explain, get a Blue Badge.

wealdroam

sassy-one wrote: »

That is like me saying, I have a family so I will book a trip on the train against a discounted set of tickets online, inputting I have a Family Railcard, if anyone asks I just say I have a family and am entitled to a card but don't want to apply, it doesn't work that way.

Not quite the same Sassy.

A Family and Friends Railcard costs £26.00*, so you are not actually 'entitled' to a railcard unless you buy one.


*can sometimes be cheaper.

taffy056

sassy-one wrote: »

Secondly and lastly, Why did you feel the need to park in a Disabled Bay, when quite clearly, you knew you did not have a Disabled Blue Badge?

You claim that you saw people with Blue Badges parked the those bays who could walk/move better than you at that time, I stress at that time.

If you feel you are entitled to a Blue Badge, apply to your local council (Details can be found on your local Council's website)
However, you had no right whatsoever to park in that bay, none whatsoever.

Complete rubbish, the blue badge scheme does not apply in private car parks, and bays in these car parks are advisory only !

This guy had every right to park there because he is on crutches and is disabled albeit temporary.

So instead of spouting misinformed utter trash sassy, try doing research first, start off on the directgov website !

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/disabledpeople/motoringandtransport/dg_4001061

lucylucky

sassy-one wrote: »

Firstly, you can simply ignore the notice that was left on your car as it is merely an 'Unenforceable' Invoice, nothing more.
By not paying it, will not render you liable to any court action as may well be threanded against you or any affect on your credit rating.


Secondly and lastly, Why did you feel the need to park in a Disabled Bay, when quite clearly, you knew you did not have a Disabled Blue Badge?

You claim that you saw people with Blue Badges parked the those bays who could walk/move better than you at that time, I stress at that time.

If you feel you are entitled to a Blue Badge, apply to your local council (Details can be found on your local Council's website)
However, you had no right whatsoever to park in that bay, none whatsoever. Totally absolutely and utterly incorrect.

That is like me saying, I have a family so I will book a trip on the train against a discounted set of tickets online, inputting I have a Family Railcard, if anyone asks I just say I have a family and am entitled to a card but don't want to apply, it doesn't work that way.


In future, use your head and don't park in spaces you are clearly NOT entitled to park in, unless, which I seriously doubt you will reading what you explain, get a Blue Badge.

Shame your post didn't stop after the words "credit rating", you were doing fine until then.;)

Oopsadaisy

Blue badges are dead handy.

I use my nan's badge all the time...but it's OK I'm getting her fags for her whilst I'm doing the shopping in Asda, so that makes it OK.

anewman

Oopsadaisy wrote: »

Blue badges are dead handy.

I use my nan's badge all the time...but it's OK I'm getting her fags for her whilst I'm doing the shopping in Asda, so that makes it OK.

I hope you're not being serious :P

trisontana

MR_ANGRY wrote: »

Hi - can anyone help with this - My father (79 years old and disabled) parked in a disabled bay in B and Q using a blue badge. He came out and found the car had a ticket on !!!
He also discovered that the car had been damaged on the front. The blue badge was in the footwell. So looking at it logically, rather than help my father by asking the person who damaged the front of his car with, we presume, a trolley, for insurance details, this 'helpful person' decided to ticket the car with £100 fine - five minutes recorded on the ticket.
As you can see the trip to B and Q was a streesful time.
My questions are these :
The ticket has no date on - how are you suppose to count the 14 days timescale allowed ? Is this illegal
The colour of the car was recorded wrong - is this legal ?

I have written to the company - UKCPS - they have said they are not listening and will enforce the debt through the courts. They have 'kindly' offered to reduce the fine to £44 and enrol my father in a disabled scheme - very generous indeed.
As we have not admitted who the driver of the car was, they have said that my father will be 'made' to tell the judge' etc etc etc. Bully boy tactics .....
I am not happy as you can imagine - ----

Any help appreciated from the forum
thanks !!

This is a reply I received from Mobilise. They thought I was referring to my father, instead of Mr Angry's. As you see it's full of the usual errors and PPC propaganda. :-

Thank you for your email.

I was sorry to hear about your father's incident at the B&Q car park which led to a parking fine.

Private car parks operators are governed by the Contract Law which requires motorists entering private car parks to abide by their terms and conditions in this case UKCPS'. Any car park managed by the UKCPS requires all the vehicles parked in disabled parking spaces to display a valid Blue Badge. Failure to display the badge will result in issuing a parking fine.

In your father's case there was a chain of events and unfortunately a parking fine was issued. You will need to satisfy the parking operator that this incident did occur by providing evidence such as reference of the logged incident with the insurance company, reference of your complaint at the B&Q customer service desk, as well photographic or CCTV evidence etc.

All tickets must have an issue date, however, colour of the car which was wrongly described on the ticket may not be good enough reason for cancellation of the ticket.

Kind regards



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