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Parking Charges
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I have just received a letter telling me that I owe a parking charge. This was for parking in a car park using my Blue Badge. I have used before my Blue Badge in this car park before but am now threatened with a £100 fine by Civil Enforcement. How can I fight this? Does anyone know? Advice please.
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There is no legal requirement to provide x amount of disabled parking spaces in a public car park under the Equality Act 2010. Government guidelines recommend that 6% of available parking spaces are designated as disabled bays and it is relatively easy to check using websites such as Parkopedia which tell you how many parking spaces each car park has. It...
09:02 Wed 30th Nov 2022
I think it is a council one. I could not park in a disabled place as all those spaces have been taken up by an adjoining pub who have put wooden benches and tables over them and a fence with flower troughs round them. There is a notice on all the tables saying they may only be used by customers of the pub but nothing to say where disabled people are supposed to park now.
I'm fine thanks DT. I hope you are as well.
I haven't actually got the letter as it was sent to daughter whose car we were using. She has exams tomorrow and the following day but rang to let me know of letter she had received. She will bring it round after her exams and I will have more info then.
I think it is a council car park.
I haven't actually got the letter as it was sent to daughter whose car we were using. She has exams tomorrow and the following day but rang to let me know of letter she had received. She will bring it round after her exams and I will have more info then.
I think it is a council car park.
In your appeal I would point out that they were in breach of the law if they failed to provide sufficient disabled parking bays. Personally I would refuse to pay on those grounds, and say I would see them in court. They wouldn't go to court in such circumstances.
That is assuming though, that you weren't in breach in another way, such as failing to pay if blue badge holders are required to pay.
That is assuming though, that you weren't in breach in another way, such as failing to pay if blue badge holders are required to pay.
There is no legal requirement to provide x amount of disabled parking spaces in a public car park under the Equality Act 2010. Government guidelines recommend that 6% of available parking spaces are designated as disabled bays and it is relatively easy to check using websites such as Parkopedia which tell you how many parking spaces each car park has. It doesn't specify the amount of disabled parking spaces but as these are usually in one area it is not difficult to count them https:/ /en.par kopedia .co.uk/ parking /carpar k/well_ lane/tr 11/falm outh/?a rriving =202211 300930& amp;lea ving=20 2211301 130