PCN for not using blue bags correctly?!

Marktheshark

WHO gave you a ticket, the council or some private comapny.
Lets stay on focus chaps and not sling bricks at the OP.

AdrianC

Marktheshark wrote: »

WHO gave you a ticket, the council or some private comapny.

It doesn't matter. It was correctly issued, and the OP has no grounds to appeal it.

I don't think there's any brick-slinging. Quite the opposite, they've learnt something about the correct use of their gran's badge which may stop it being withdrawn for abuse.

Keep_pedalling

My mother has a blue badge, and on several occasions I have had to drop her off at the entrance of a hospital out patients then go off to find so somewhere close by to park because all the OP BB spaces are full then leg it back to OP so I can accompany her to her appointment. I've never thought of it as an abuse of the system but I suppose technically it could be seen as such.

AdrianC

Keep_pedalling wrote: »

My mother has a blue badge, and on several occasions I have had to drop her off at the entrance of a hospital out patients then go off to find so somewhere close by to park because all the OP BB spaces are full then leg it back to OP so I can accompany her to her appointment. I've never thought of it as an abuse of the system but I suppose technically it could be seen as such.

Don't forget that the OP didn't just drop her grandmother off, but the grandmother's carer was with her...

Keep_pedalling

AdrianC wrote: »

Don't forget that the OP didn't just drop her grandmother off, but the grandmother's carer was with her...

Oh! I missed that bit. Definitely naughty.

abda

I use the term carer loosely since none of her family are officially carers in that they receive any benefits such as CAllowance but since we have a loving extended family take it in turns to come over and stay with her for company etc

The ticket was issued by Sheffield Council - not sure what diff that makes, but figured you deserve an answer for simply being nice��

Ikamva

There is no harm in appealing. I made the same mistake with my Dad's disabled badge and the council cancelled the ticket as it was a genuine mistake.

AdrianC

abda wrote: »

I use the term carer loosely since none of her family are officially carers in that they receive any benefits such as CAllowance but since we have a loving extended family take it in turns to come over and stay with her for company etc

Whoever the carer was, your grandmother was not turfed out onto the payment to wait, alone, for you.

The ticket was issued by Sheffield Council - not sure what diff that makes

It makes a big difference, as different enforcement rules apply to private companies who are employed to prevent misuse of private land. It also makes a difference in terms of the rules surrounding blue badge use, since the operators of private parking do not have to recognise blue badges at all.

almillar

Because the choice of parking place does not benefit the blue-badge holder in the slightest. The parking place is ONLY benefiting the perfectly able-bodied OP.

It stops a car used for gran from potentially being broken into. How is the able bodied person being benefitted by having to park far away from where they left gran off, and presumably, having to come back to get her? If the trip is purely for the benefit of gran, I don't see how this really makes a difference - what am I missing?!

londonTiger

this epitomises blue badge holders. They forget that the blue badge was issued to help the disabled person to park as near to the entrance as possible. It's not a carte blanch right to park for free and park in an inconsierate way.