Disabled parking

Magic-Ian

Sirdan wrote: »

A disabled bay in a private car park has nothing to do with Blue Badges.

It is a reasonable adjustment for disabled persons which the landowner must provide by law ...in law a disabled person is entitled to use the bay. That is ANY disabled person as defined in law ..forget about blue badges.

The relevant law is The Equality Act ..this is statute law and totally overrides any made up rules of contract that the car park owner and UKPC try to impose.

So legally you are on solid ground ..they don't have a leg to stand on !!

Thank you Sirdan :T:j Now I do not feel so stressed.

Sir_Roger_deLodger

Magic-Ian wrote: »

But then wouldn't I be failing by not having a valid ticket from the machine.

No. They might as well say parking is free for two hours as long as the driver is wearing a gorilla suit. You parking there has cost them nowt, so that is all they could claim.

trisontana

Of course it's not a real "NTO" (notice to owner), it's yet another attempt by a PPC to fool people into thinking that these bunch of chancers have some sort of legal authority to demand money off people.

Coupon-mad

Magic-Ian wrote: »

Where do I stand legally. I can have free parking for 2 hours IF I get a ticket from the machine. I did not as being disabled that would incur stress as the disabled bays are away from the machines. But my BB was not valid at the time due to a delay in issuing the new one.

Where you stand is you owe them nothing, it's a scam so not a fine at all.

Where UKPC and the retailer stand, however, is that they have broken the law, as others have said. See this BBC article on a matter similar to your situation:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8488737.stm

...it's very similar in that supermarkets breach the Equality Act all the time. As others have said, disabled bays in private car parks have nowt at all to do with the Blue Badge scheme so your badge could have been a year out of date (or you may have parked there without a badge if you were qualifying disabled). You would still have got a fake 'ticket' no doubt but who cares when you know it's a scam and you why those bays are there (Equality Act 'reasonable adjustment' provision, that's all, nothing more and nothing less and NOT for Blue Badge holders only).

To learn more about the PPC scam in general, read this article from pepipoo forums (motorists fightback website):

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=46975

Make sure you and your wife watch the Watchdog clip linked there; have a laugh! You will be fine, spread the word about this con to everyone you know.

And check out the top thread here on this MSE forum 'PPC letters, what to expect' to see what scary letters you will now be bombarded with! Collect a few of those empty threats (do not reply, do not be worried) and then send copies of them with a stern complaint to the retailer about allowing their agent to harass paying customers with bogus 'PCNs' and then debt collector threats, a scam that's well-known and already outed last year on Watchdog. Ask them what on earth were they thinking to allow a practice akin to a protection racket which also breaches disability laws - and have they ever actually looked at the Equality Act 2010 disability provision section? Inform them they can be sued for compensation for a breach - and your case is a breach on the part of the parking co. and the retailer. Do not mention the blue badge - it's irrelevant, only the fact you are disabled is relevant in that bay. Obviously do not write to the parking co.