Parking fine - disabled space - parking eye

Ladyholton

Hello,

Today me and my husband went to Giltbrook retail park, Nottingham with our 22 month old daughter. There are only 8 child and parent spaces and there's were all full, as was the car park. We came across a free disable space, which we decided to park in as this not only gave us the space we required to get my daughter out but was the only space available.
I left a brief note in the windscreen on an envelope stating 'there were no free parent & child spaces free' .
We were only away from the car for 20 minutes, when we returned there was a £50 parking fine on our windscreen from 'Parking Eye'.

Is there anything we can do. We would never normally park in a disabled bay but we needed the space to get our toddler out of the vehicle safely.

Thanks

Redx

there is no possible excuse for parking in those bays as they are for the use of disabled people only, as per the EQUALITY ACT 2010 , which is the law and why they are provided

its also not a fine, its a parking charge invoice

that aside, please read through this advice in here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4816822

tells you everything you need to know

in future, please leave those bays free for people like myself to use , ie:- those of us who are protected under the 2010 EA laws because if such a person had turned up in those 20 minutes they could not have parked due to you blocking that space with your unauthorised vehicle, which should have been parked in a normal bay if no gimmicky bays were free

thank you

Stroma

You are not going to get much sympathy on here because of your actions, I'm sorry but the disabled bays are for people who have need of them because they are disabled or with someone disabled! Don't do it again! Parent bays are a gimmick not an entitlement, disabled bays are a requirement under the Equality Act 2010

I am not here to lecture though, so I gather this is a ticket on the car and you are the registered keeper? And is this England or Wales?

martmonk

Stroma wrote: »

You are not going to get much sympathy on here because of your actions, I'm sorry but the disabled bays are for people who have need of them because they are disabled or with someone disabled! Don't do it again! Parent bays are a gimmick not an entitlement, disabled bays are a requirement under the Equality Act 2010

I am not here to lecture though, so I gather this is a ticket on the car and you are the registered keeper? And is this England or Wales?

OP says in Nottingham and on windscreen.

OP. Read the newbies sticky and wait for notice to keeper through the post. By the time you get it you'll know what needs to be done.