Pcn appeal rejected

bobbykhan

hello all


my father was recently issued a parking ticket for parking on a street during prescribed hours , but he appealed against the ticket under mitigating circumstances which were:

1) he is disabled and has walking difficulties and parked his car under serious circumstance as he had to attend to myself as an emergency

2) i am pregnant (fathers daughter) and he came to my assistance and could not find a place to park therefore he parked his car for a short while on the footpath (not curb) and rushed to get me and take me to he hospital

secondly there was no signage displayed to say that there is no parking allowed at any time!

these are the reasons my father gave to them and appealed in writing and i also provided him with a witness statement to support this and took pictures of the location and no signage displayed.

having done some research and reading the UNFAIR tickets article on MSE and also getting advice from CAB website, i have read to my knowledge that under these reasons stated above that the ticket can or should be cancelled.

i believe my father had strong mitigating reasons to claim against the ticket but unfortunately they have rejected the appeal and said they are unable to consider the mitigating reasons put forward and he has 14 days to pay the discounted fee of £35

i just wanted to get some more help or advice about this matter and shed some light on this.

hope anyone can help


thank you

Redx

if this is a council ticket then please try pepipoo forums (do not signup with a hotmail or outlook email address, try gmail)

The_Deep

If this is a council ticket, I find myself in similar circumstances.

Peppipoo will tell how to jump through the hoops, meanwhile here is a copy of a complaint that I plan to send to The Equalities Commission unless they do the decent thing.

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]REEPOST
Equality Advisory Support Service
FPN4431 [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Dear Sirs[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Disability Discrimination by Reading Borough Council[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I wish to bring to your notice an incidence of Disability Discrimination by Reading Borough Council in failing to make reasonable adjustments to allow for my protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I am seventy six years old and occasionally have severe difficulty walking. I have had a TKR in 2015 and another 2016. and suspect that I may need a hip operation shortly.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]On 13[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]th[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif] August 2016 I had an appointment at Royal Berkshire Hospital Diabetes Clinic and parked in a resident’s, bay immediately adjacent to the rear entrance in prince Street. As walking was extremely painful that day, it was a choice of parking there or cancelling the appointment, as there were no other spaces within my walking capability. When I returned from the appointment there was a Penalty Charge notice on my windscreen. A valid Blue Badge and clock were displayed. [/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I made an informal challenge to RBC on the grounds they should make reasonable adjustment due to my protected characteristics under the Equality Act, but this was rejected with indecent haste.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]I realise that BBs are not valid in Residents parking spaces, but on this occasion I had no alternative but to park where I did , or cancel my appointment. Councils may if they wish, allow BB holders to park in residents' parking spaces and I feel that their failure to consider my mitigating circumstances amount to a de facto case of discrimination.[/FONT]


[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Please investigate this matter and if you agree that Reading Borough Council have discriminated against me, please take whatever action you deem appropriate. My ideal outcome would be an apology from RBC and that they make a donation of £50 - £100 to Arthritis UK.[/FONT]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Yours sincerely[/FONT]

beamerguy

Deep, with Cllr Tony Page around ..... good luck, the man cannot control moving traffic let alone parked traffic

The_Deep

But he has apparently controlled other urges.