Having to pay and display even with Blue Badge?

nannytone_2

tea-bag wrote: »

Why should you not have to pay for car parking? I just don't get this constant thinking of entitlement people have.

(I do beleave nobody should have to pay for hospital car parks btw)

for once, i agree with you!
a blue badge gives preferential parking and thats what it is meant to do.
being disabled doesn't mean that you are less able to pay for the charges!
DLA/PIP is not means tested so no indication at all of income!
why should a disabled person not have to pay but someone on ESA/JSA/IS have to?

my local authority car parks a free for everyone, but there are 2 local(it) hospitals. one charges BB holders and the other doesn't.
do i let this affect my choice of hospital?
of course not ... i go to the one that charges for parking because it has a better eye clinic

Ames

I'm mainly playing devil's advocate here, but if someone with no mobility problems can walk two to three times as fast as someone who qualifies for a blue badge, then doesn't that mean that the blue badge holder will be paying more? ie, if it takes an hour for a blue badge holder to do the same amount of shopping as a non disabled person can do in ten minutes.

Also how would they charge people for parking on double yellow lines? I wonder if there could be a challenge on the grounds that someone without a bb has as much right to pay to use that service as someone with.

Although I'd be in favour of no-one having to pay to park in town/city centres to try and stop/reverse the decline due to people going to out of town shopping centres instead.

Poppie68

Ames wrote: »

I'm mainly playing devil's advocate here, but if someone with no mobility problems can walk two to three times as fast as someone who qualifies for a blue badge, then doesn't that mean that the blue badge holder will be paying more? ie, if it takes an hour for a blue badge holder to do the same amount of shopping as a non disabled person can do in ten minutes.

Also how would they charge people for parking on double yellow lines? I wonder if there could be a challenge on the grounds that someone without a bb has as much right to pay to use that service as someone with.

Although I'd be in favour of no-one having to pay to park in town/city centres to try and stop/reverse the decline due to people going to out of town shopping centres instead.

I agree with you there.....it now takes me more than double the time to go round the shops or supermarkets than it did before i became iIl and now we pay more to park...

What I didn't know until last week is since Parking eye has taken over Aldi carparks and time is restricted to 90 mins...BB holders get double that...
I was really struggling and walking slower than a tortoise so told my husband to just carry on wwithout me as I wasn't going to make it round and be back at the car in 90 mins...The manager had overheard and explained about the 3hrs for BB holders and got my husband to pop out for my badge for her to photocopy and send to parking eye with husband reg number...
She also told me to go in if we got a pcn through for that day take it in for her to sort out...Lovely lady..

Funnily enough we had received a PCN from them about a month ago purely because my husband had forgot to enter car reg....Luckily iI keep receipts for a month...Sent letter of appeal with receipt5 days later arecieved word the PCN had been cancelled.

Ames

Don't forget it's not a PCN from a private company, it's an invoice and if you refuse to pay there's pretty much sod all they can do.

harveybobbles

I would have no intention of paying any parking charge/notice unless it actually came from a council.

Poppie68

harveybobbles wrote: »

I would have no intention of paying any parking charge/notice unless it actually came from a council.

I have never paid one....had two and got them cancelled.
Even got one from the council cancelled last year....my fault for failing to set the clock on my BB, council let me off...

Poppie68

Ames wrote: »

Don't forget it's not a PCN from a private company, it's an invoice and if you refuse to pay there's pretty much sod all they can do.

Aren't they still called a PCN though?

Doveling

There is a brilliant thread written by Fergie76 titled

"Hospital Complaint for breach of Equality Act 2010"

which I am following with interest. It is definitely worth reading as it's all about parking at hospitals.
I hope I'm not breaking any rules pointing it out.
HTH someone.

Anne_Marie_2

Doveling wrote: »

There is a brilliant thread written by Fergie76 titled

"Hospital Complaint for breach of Equality Act 2010"

which I am following with interest. It is definitely worth reading as it's all about parking at hospitals.
I hope I'm not breaking any rules pointing it out.
HTH someone.

Link https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5049715

harveybobbles

I've just spent the thick end if two hours reading that!

It's hillarious!