East Coast Parking Ticket at Doncaster Station

doncaster1989

Hello

I have recently been given a ticket for parking in a disabled bay at Doncaster station and not displaying a blue badge. I do not own a badge and the reason for me occupying the space was to drop off my older brother who has a broken leg. I left the car a matter of minutes and on the ticket it say from 18:58 to 19:02.

The letter starts of by saying a breach of byelaw 14 and i have improper use of a designated area for disabled only. He has scrawled across the ticket photos taken.

It then goes onto say as a result of breach of bylaw 14 i have committed a criminal offence and must pay a penalty of £30 in within 14 days or £60 within 30 days. If i do not pay they will commence collection procedures which may result in legal action.

To appeal i must write to Revenue Protection Support Services which seems to be based in Portsmouth.

I fully understand by the letter of the law i should pay the fine but am seeking advice as to weather on the face of it there has been any procedural breaches and or my chances of a successfull appeal.

Any responses would be muchly appreciated

The_Slithy_Tove

You'll need to post up the ticket (scrubbed of personal details) for anyone to be able to tell if there have been any procedural errors.

Don't hold your hopes up, though. If it specifically refers to the Byelaws, they are much harder to contest than, say, a council ticket. I think it's the case that if you lose an appeal, then that's it - pay up or the next stop is the magistrate's court.

doncaster1989

Thanks for that i am not holding much hope out. The ticket states a period of 4 minutes it was left unnatended is that too short an amount of time for a ticket to be issued?

Coupon-mad

doncaster1989 wrote: »

Thanks for that i am not holding much hope out. The ticket states a period of 4 minutes it was left unnatended is that too short an amount of time for a ticket to be issued?

Who issued the ticket? East Coast themselves? Is it called a 'Penalty'?

If so then try a simple appeal explaining that you honestly believed it was OK to use that bay to drop off your passenger who was incapacitated with a broken leg, and assist him into the station which took just 4 minutes.

If it's from a private company and is not a PENALTY then the advice would be different. Please tell us which it is or show a broken link to a pic of it (newbies can't reply with links so you'd need to just put a gap after the http in the URL of the picture-hosting screen).





P.S. in future be aware that a broken leg is not a long term condition as protected by the Equality Act, so you actually were 'wrong' to park there. But do show us the ticket or confirm if it's a penalty from the Train operator themselves? You have nowt to worry about if it's a private firm.

doncaster1989

Yes it has been issued by East Coast and it is titled a parking penalty Notice Number ECP then a seven digit Number
Further down where payment is required it says the reduced Penalty (Within 14 days) is £30 and the standard penaly within 30 days is £60

BASFORDLAD

You are better getting yourself over to pepipoo and posting on there for advice in this area (by laws)

peter_the_piper

East Coast, Byelaws, Revenue protection all = Magistrates court if not paid. I think you will have to put this one down to experience. However you have a short while so check out pepipoo as advised and see what they advise.