Blue Badge APCOA

MillMo

Hi,

I received a PCN today for failing to display a disabled blue badge in the car windscreen whilst parked in a disabled bay.

The car park usually provides a ticket with the car reg number captured on it when entering the car park however there is maintenance work taking place at the car park currently and only season ticket holders or those with disabled parking badges are allowed to park in the car park whilst the work is going on. Because of this the entrance ticket barriers are being manned and someone checks with you before you enter the car park whether you are a season ticket/blue badge holder.

This morning I showed my blue badge to the person manning the entrance and they contacted the office via the intercom to ask that they raise the barrier to let me through as I was a blue badge holder. I was asked by the person on duty in the office via the intercom to go and see them before leaving so that they could make a note of my blue badge and get given a ticket to let me out through the barrier.

I parked in a disabled space but didn't display the blue badge and returned to find the PCN. On the exit from the car park I went to the office as requested and showed them my blue badge which they made a note of the blue badge number and then provided me with a ticket to exit the car park.

What I wanted to check was would I have a case to appeal, given that they took details of my blue badge and would have refused entry to the car park in the first place if I didn't have one?

Thanks in advance for any help

Coupon-mad

Just follow the NEWBIES thread and appeal on day 26 as keeper. See the sticky thread.

Half_way

whos car park was it?

MillMo

Half_way wrote: »

whos car park was it?

It was an Apcoa station car park.

Coupon-mad

Easy to beat, no need for extra advice. Follow the NEWBIES thread appeal stages, as KEEPER.

The_Deep

This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors..

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They nearly always lose) and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P.

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the HofC recently.

http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind most of these companies may well be put out of business by Christmas.

Redx

so nothing to do until day 26

then appeal as KEEPER using the template from the NEWBIES FAQ sticky thread , post #1

once you get a rejection and a popla code, its a well constructed popla appeal based on previous station type appeals on here over the last 18 months and post #3 of that NEWBIES faq sticky thread

just follow the advice given , even if you do not understand it