Should we ignore the ticket?

Rie74

Hi, I've read other posts regarding private parking tickets but i'm just a little worried and wondered what everyone else thought about our situation.
we recently went out for a meal, parking in a disabled space as we had a disabled person with us with the usual badge. Upon arriving at the restaurant, the disabled lady felt a bit strange, being diabetic she thought she was having a hypo and wanted to get inside asap to eat something and make herself feel better. In the rush to get inside, the disabled badge was (open) left on the seat rather than being put on the dashboard. 10 minutes after arriving she realised where it was left and the driver (not the registered keeper, i hasten to add) went outside to find a UKPC ticket on the windscreen.
The warden was still in the car park so we told him what had happened and showed him that we did have a disabled badge but he said the ticket had been issued and we would have to appeal.
On the way home we went past the police station to ask if the ticket was legitimate and was told it was and we would need to pay it or appeal.
If the ticket was on my car, i would just ignore it as it was not issued by the council or the police but the registered keeper is in their late 70s and worried that they will get in trouble if they ignore the ticket because of what the police said. Also, they do not need the stress of threatening letters etc.
What do you think? Are UKPC tickets ok to ignore?
Thanks in advance

esmerobbo

The Police as usual are talking garbage concerning these things. However unfortunately ignoring them and receiving the letters is the only way to deal with them. If you appeal it will almost certainly be unsuccessful and will alert them that you may cave in.

Try explaining to the RK that these invoices are a con and can not be enforced against the RK. However there is no way to stop the letter chain other then paying.[please don't] Even if you wrote and explained the RK was not driving they would not give up sending the letters!

lucylucky

Unfortunately it is the registered keeper who will get the threatening letters from the scum parking company.

You need to reassure them that nothing wrong has been done and no money is owed to anyone.

Keep coming back here for reassurance should you need to but honestly you must not pay these people. They are merely trying to extort money from you by means of intimidation. Have a search on here for UKPC and you will see that payment is not required.

Rie74

Thank you both. i thought that would be the case but just wanted to be sure that UKPC were like the others. I've told the RK that if/when they get the letters to give them to me rather than cave in and i will take great pleasure in burning them teehee

Thanks again :T

Kite2010

You had a disabled passenger and parked in a disabled spot, nothing wrong there.

Send a lovely letter to the restaurant saying is that how they treat their disabled customers by sending demands, and that you shall not be visiting there again and you will be telling your friends & family to do the same unless you get an apology from the manager.

Ignore UKPC you don't owe them a penny.

Rie74

Hi Kite2010,
The restaurant doesn't have control over the car park, shame really because the restaurant belongs to a friend of our family and the other cars in our party could have parked for free too lol
Having said that, after reading so many other posts about PPCs, next time i think we'll all park for free and then just ignore the tickets anyway lol
Thanks )

NeverAgain_2

...The restaurant doesn't have control over the car park...

No, but the restaurant is probably paying rent to the same landlord who employs the parking company.

So it worth telling the restaurant of your unhappy experience.

As others have said, the RK can safely ignore the ticket, but there will be a stream of nasty and quite convincing sounding letters.

I have successfully ignored two tickets.

Coupon-mad

Rie74 wrote: »

Hi Kite2010,
The restaurant doesn't have control over the car park, shame really because the restaurant belongs to a friend of our family and the other cars in our party could have parked for free too lol
Having said that, after reading so many other posts about PPCs, next time i think we'll all park for free and then just ignore the tickets anyway lol
Thanks )

Complain to the landlord mentioning that harassing a disabled person using a private disabled bay breaches the DDA (Equality Act). Never mind any t&cs about blue badges - since everyone with a BB knows they do not even apply on private land.

And the DDA takes precedence of course, as soon as a service provider/retailer, landlord or their agents are aware that a person is disabled then they commit an offence if they harass or discriminate against that person. Issuing a fake PCN and then sending threatening legalese letters randomly to the registered keeper would certainly constitute harassment in my book.

Ask the landlords, are they going to call the PPC off before you go to see your solicitor...?

esmerobbo

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Ask the landlords, are they going to call the PPC off before you go to see your solicitor...?

That's the way I saw Parking Spy off sent the landlords a letter saying tell parking spy to issue proceedings or back off or I sue you and parking spy for harassment. I never heard a dickiebird since!

Rie74

Thank you very very much!! I didn't even think about disability harassment!!

I'll get the restaurant to complain to the landlord about parking wardens harassing their disabled customers and I will also complain directly to the landlord, they should call off the dogs - although i won't hold my breathe lol

These bar-stewards get a lot of negative press ready, i'm sure they don't want more especially of this nature.

Thanks again, you're all wonderful :T

robredz

I agree with Coupon-Mad, complain to landlord citing DDA, as the Blue Badge scheme does not apply on private land, and a ticket or penalty cannot be legally enforced, despite what the PPC's and a certain "Charity?" for the disabled, aka Mobilise might claim. Free carpark = no consequential loss so no claim in court