Blue Badge parking Penalty

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Fri 11 Apr 2025 12:41
Blue Badge parking Penalty - Palcouk

Visited a local Hospital I have been to numerous times & parked in disabled bay showing Badge.

Received a penalty notice as apparently 'parking management' had changed and you now have to register your Reg# at a desk in the hospital and entance are now monitered by ANPR, but this isnt obvious, or stated anywhere other than the hospital web site.

The clinic we attended has a seperate side entrance and reception. No notices in the reception about any registration. No signs in the car park entrance or exit, or at any of the disabled bays.

Naturally my appeal was regected, they gave the option to submit to the IAS but is this 'realy' independent or simply a tick box process?

T/Y

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Fri 11 Apr 2025 13:21
Blue Badge parking Penalty - Bromptonaut

Some years since I was in close touch with this stuff.

Last time I was one service had moved from London Tribunals (who do the appeals for the London Councils) to a well regarded Ombudsman outfit.

The other one had a poor reputation for openness and fairness and I think that was IAS. Whether it's upped upped its game since I don't know.

Give it a whirl though, nothing to lose.

Make sure you've clear photo evidence of the lack of signage at your entry point and on the car park generally regarding Blue Badge Rules.

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Fri 11 Apr 2025 13:48
Blue Badge parking Penalty - daveyjp

Chances are its a private invoice (from a private company) and not a penalty (from police or Council).

Don't do anything yet. Moneysavingexpert has a dedicated forum for such matters. As its a hspital (assuming NHS) they also have policies they have to follow as regards parking management.

Edited by daveyjp on 11/04/2025 at 13:49

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Sat 12 Apr 2025 13:46
Blue Badge parking Penalty - Bromptonaut

Chances are its a private invoice (from a private company) and not a penalty (from police or Council).

Don't do anything yet. Moneysavingexpert has a dedicated forum for such matters. As its a hspital (assuming NHS) they also have policies they have to follow as regards parking management.

Given the rejection and the appeal route I'd say with certainty is a Parking on Private Land issue.

Be careful of imprecations to ignore. OK in the short term but since the Beavis case in the Supreme Court parking companies have become much more bullish about pursuing these cases in the County Court.

If they do that and the 'summons' is ignored or overlooked there's a CCJ and next thing is bailiffs at your door.

Just be ready for the paperwork and have your ducks in a row as regards lack of signage.

A complaint to the Hospital might help?

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Sat 12 Apr 2025 15:38
Blue Badge parking Penalty - Falkirk Bairn

Get your camera and/or phone out and scour the car park area for signs.

Only an odd sign in a large carpark, signs too high, writing too small, hidden by trees, dirty, Pay machines out of order, poor mobile signal to pay by phone etc etc

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Tue 15 Apr 2025 09:16
Blue Badge parking Penalty - Palcouk

As a sidenote tried to submit an appeal via IAS website tried under both FireFox & Edge both failed with the generic msg 'must complete all data' Then used a Private browsing session which was successful.

Raised the issue with IAS who responded by ignoring what was said and closed the enquiry/comment stating that an appeal had been submitted.

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Fri 18 Apr 2025 20:17
Blue Badge parking Penalty - daveyjp
IAS aren’t there to help.

Edited by daveyjp on 18/04/2025 at 20:40

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