Fined for stopping at Bristol Airport with a fractured spine.

Trainerman

Unfortunately @Fruitcake I was parked on the red line just to the right of the entrance

Hang on a moment. My understanding is that you stopped for less than two minutes for medication? If so, I suggest that Jopson v Homeguard might cover this, with stopping to attend to a  "vicissitude".

Ergo, you were NOT "parked"

Fruitcake

Coupon-mad said:

There is no Disabilty act of 2010.

Please state the Equality Act 2010 and the duty to make 'reasonable adjustments'.

And when I say "Airport Byelaws allow for emergency stops" I mean quote that clause from the actual byelaws at the Airport owners (with a URL) so they have no wriggle room.

The airport owners are a foreign investment company who in my opinion is only interested in shovelling profit out of the  country. They never responded to any of my complaints.

The site is managed by a sub-contractor, misleadingly called Bristol Airport Ltd. They employed VCS and think they are wonderful, but is to them who complaints should be addressed.

Fruitcake

Doneanddusted171717 said:

Thanks to everyone for their inputs.

Unfortunately @Fruitcake I was parked on the red line just to the right of the entrance. 

I will write back to the airport and mention the Disabilty act of 2010 again and the fact that they allow stopping in an emergency.
I will cc the letter to my MP.
I will also mention that this is headed for the national press as a news agency rang me up having read the local news story. 

The letters I have had are from both Excel and VCS. They appear to be working as one and the same organisation.

Very much hoping Bristol airport will see the light. 

Who sent you the original Notice to Keeper as you mentioned Excel in your first post?
Please show us both sides of the redacted NTK as if it really came from Excel then that should be added to your complaints because they are a stranger to the parking contract.

B789

Trainerman said:

Unfortunately @Fruitcake I was parked on the red line just to the right of the entrance

Hang on a moment. My understanding is that you stopped for less than two minutes for medication? If so, I suggest that Jopson v Homeguard might cover this, with stopping to attend to a  "vicissitude".

Ergo, you were NOT "parked"

I don't think we are even at LoC stage yet. However, as you state, this is just one more "hook" for ay subsequent defence should VCS be imbecilic enough not to drop it.

Snakes_Belly

"I don't think we are even at LoC stage yet. However, as you state, this is just one more "hook" for ay subsequent defence should VCS be imbecilic enough not to drop it."

I would not put money on whether this would go to court or not. SRS et al have skin like rhinoceros hide and have no emotional intellligence whatsoever.

If it does go to court the OP would have to be very unlucky in the DJ lottery. It's very likely to be dismissed. 

Regarding these no stopping zones around airports I get why they need to keep them free. Surely though it would be better to have patrols helping people out who are in difficulty that these vultures patrolling the road. If a driver is in difficulty and does not stop they may collide with a tanker and that could close the road off for hours.   

Doneanddusted171717

Hi the original poster here

I have just been informed by Bristol airport that they are waiving the fine. 
I had to send them all my evidence again. 

Thanks everyone here for your advice and support. I did have to hold my nerve whilst receiving a couple of very unpleasant court threats and they put up the fine to £170.

From my experience I think the advice not to bother with the appeal process is good advice. It was entirely pointless. I failed both appeals even with good evidence that would stand up in any court of law.

Thanks again.

Fruitcake

Well done, and thanks for letting us know.

I hope you will come back and support us to fight these unfair parking charges (they are not fines) when the public consultation happens sometime before the summer parliament recess.

Coupon-mad

Yay!   Plan A strikes again!

See you back here for the final DLUHC Public Consultation, coming very soon, as mentioned by @Fruitcake

Please read about it and be ready.  What a waste of your time this was, and why should there be such a threatening litigation culture snd £170 extortion in parking?

Join us in trying to end the conniving PPC and DRA 'added fees' fuelling the court culture. There will be one window of opportunity very soon.

Together, we can stop the rotten parking industry from riding roughshod over the new statutory Code and the charge level caps intended last year, but blocked by the greedy moneymen.

If you are not likely to pop back here every week to check, please set up email alerts for this forum and bookmark this thread (below) as we intend that one of us posts on it when the Government opens the Consultation:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6333989/mse-parking-ticket-appeals-guide-feedback#latest

Read only the latest (2022) posts there. The PPCs have blocked the new Code by filing for Judicial Reviews.

Stopped the much welcomed parking code from February 2022, which stated that added £60 or £70 false 'DRA fee' extortion was to be banned and that parking levels would start at £50.  It's all on hold...

Motorists urgently need the statutory Code reinstated and the ban on false 'DRA fees' confirmed, to stop the rot and the toxic litigation culture.

This will be your chance to make a difference, plus other drivers you know (family, friends) who are also fed up with greedy and unscrupulous parking firms and the stranglehold they and their 'legals' have on people.

We need VERY high numbers of real victims to make a point of responding to this final Consultation.

Coming very soon....and it will be all over the forum for several weeks.  Don't miss it.

Your only chance to change the law.