Forgot to display Blue Badge. UKPC fine Norwich

Hatebeingdone

Hi
I should be grateful for some help please.
I appealed to the shop I visited because I had forgotten to display my Blue Badge when I parked in a disabled bay and there was a ticket on the window screen when I returned to my car. I appealed to the manager of the store but, even though I had spent a lot of money in the store, they said they could not help. I appealed to UKPC without mentioning who was driving. I explained that I forgot to display my Blue Badge but was entitled to park in the bay and sent a copy of my badge. I have now received the following email:

Thank you for your recent correspondence in relation to parking charge reference ******. To assist us in making a decision regarding your appeal, please confirm the full name and address of the driver to our Appeals Department within seven days of the date of this letter. Schedule 4 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 discusses the recovery of unpaid parking charges. It allows parking operators to hold the registered keeper liable to pay unpaid parking charges if the operator has not been provided the name and a serviceable address of the driver. This information may be confirmed by submitting another appeal on our website at www.ukpcappeals.co.uk, or by post to the address overleaf. Please ensure that if writing to us by post that you include the parking charge reference number and vehicle registration. Failure to provide this information will give us no alternative other than to make our final decision based on the previous information received. At this stage a POPLA verification code will be provided. The parking charge has been placed on hold whilst under appeal and may be settled in full at the current PCN rate of £60.00. Yours sincerely, Appeals Department UK Parking Control Ltd

The fine was put on the screen of the car. I presume there is no point in answering the above as they are obviously not going to allow the appeal.
Can UKPC fine the keeper?
Thank you in advance.

KeithP

Do not respond to that letter.
Wait for them to reject your appeal and then appeal to PoPLA.

Hatebeingdone

Thank you. Are POPLA likely to help?

MikeJXE

Have been in a similar situation

Forgot to put my blue badge on show and received a ticket

Put my hand up, yep my fault and paid half the fine

I don't forget now 

Hatebeingdone

It's easily done and it is hardly fair to charge £60 for a minor mistake that has not caused any harm.

Coupon-mad

MikeJXE said:

Have been in a similar situation

Forgot to put my blue badge on show and received a ticket

Put my hand up, yep my fault and paid half the fine

I don't forget now 

That's a shame.

It wasn't a fine.

Everyone else here pays nothing at all.

But (correct me if I'm wrong) I think we've had this discussion before, where it was pointed out that it is not right on MSE, to tell a newbie to pay a scam.

This person won't be paying UKPC anything.

B789

MikeJXE said:

Have been in a similar situation

Forgot to put my blue badge on show and received a ticket

Put my hand up, yep my fault and paid half the fine

I don't forget now 

Sorry, but being a 1 percenter is not part of the philosophy of this forum. Maybe that should be a 1/2 percenter.

fisherjim

MikeJXE said:

Have been in a similar situation

Forgot to put my blue badge on show and received a ticket

Put my hand up, yep my fault and paid half the fine

I don't forget now 

You did not pay "half the fine" you were conned into contributing towards a scammers new Tesla or villa in the Algarve.

Blue badges are only applicable to on street parking, your instruction book states that.

PPC's use them or abuse them to their advantage, in fact you displaying them as a pure courtesy to save them time and money in verifying an entitlement to certain parking advantages, the appeals procedure is allegedly there to cancel wrongly issued invoices but that doesn't make profits for them does it.

16.3 Operators of off-street car parks do not have to
recognise the Blue Badge scheme. But many choose to
do so to meet their obligations under the Equality Act.
Although a Blue Badge is not issued to all disabled people
it is issued to those with mobility problems. So it is a
good way for parking operators to identify people who
need special parking provision.

Le_Kirk

Hatebeingdone said:

I appealed to the shop I visited because I had forgotten to display my Blue Badge when I parked in a disabled bay and there was a ticket on the window screen when I returned to my car. I appealed to the manager of the store but, even though I had spent a lot of money in the store, they said they could not help. I appealed to UKPC without mentioning who was driving. I explained that I forgot to display my Blue Badge but was entitled to park in the bay and sent a copy of my badge.

You might want to change the bits that say "I" then if you are going to rely on not stating who was driving. You don't appeal to shops, you complain! 

Hatebeingdone

I did complain.  I got a survey to ask how well the shop did - didn't!
Thanks for the tip re: I

Le_Kirk

Don't you just love (NO) all those surveys! I hope you completed the survey.