PCN 91 - Parking in a 'Coach Bay'

Rebecca.B

Hi All,

I'm hoping that someone out there may be able to help?!?!


PCN Code 91 'Parked in a car park or area not designated for that class of vehicle'
Issued by - Derbyshire Dales District Council
Location - Station Yard and Tintis Yard Overspill Car Park, Matlock Bath
Observed from 15:49 to 15:49



Today I received a PCN Code 91 for parking in a coach bay. It was 13:00 and the entire car park was full, and other cars were parked in the coach bays. Other cars had just abandoned their cars in all sorts of precarious and unsafe locations (unsafe for drivers, but especially for pedestrians), also blocking the entrance for any coaches to access the designated coach bays, as there was just enough space to squeeze through with a car.

I had taken my Grandma for a day our following her recent knee replacement, as she has not been able to get out much. The Pay & Display machine advised that car parking was free for disabled badge holders, so we clearly displayed the Blue Badge. However on return to my car, I noticed the dreaded yellow package on my windscreen. Other, but not all cars parked within the coach bays had received tickets. However ALL of the cars that had been abandoned on the 'roads' blocking entrances, and stopping coaches being able to even enter the car park had been left ticket free.

If I had parked my car 4 foot further forward 'blocking access' it would seem I would not have been issued the ticket. It seems that Derbyshire District Council would prefer dangerous parking rather than drivers using common sense and parking safely, in otherwise abandoned 'coach bays'.

Do I have any grounds to appeal?


Many Thanks in advance
Rebecca.B

Redx

as this is council then you are better off posting it where the experts are, over on pepipoo forums, but they may want pics of the signage etc too

Marktheshark

Often people with disabled badges get more tickets than those without as they mis-understand the rules.
Loading bays, coach bays, will all get you ticketed.
Looks like they responded to a complaint, probably from a coach driver.
You only hope is someone on Peipoo forum can spot a mistake on the ticket or the off street parking placements order has expired like they often have.

However stick to facts, what you were doing and others were not ticketed are irreverent.

For the informal appeal, you could try the disabled person needed to use an emergency toilet line and therefore your disabled passenger required reasonable adjustment under disability act to visit a toilet, which the observation and issue time shows the duration of the toilet break to be within one minute.
Request they grant the reasonable adjustment required for the disabled passenger to utilise the nearest toilets and access them in walking distance and cancel the ticket.
Send a copy of the badge, await the rejection or goodwill cancellation.


If you are bothered about loosing the discount, just pay up and dont waste time.

If they refuse the mitigation and disabled adjustment request then look at technical points.