Incorrectly issued parking ticket

[sigma]

What further action can you take if you receive and incorrectly issued parking ticket (no offense committed) and the council reject your appeal.

[TWR]

Contact, Local Government Ombudsman

[TWR]

Any details Sigma?

[Hymie]

See here for an authoritative answer on how to appeal parking tickets

http://www.moneysavin...arking-ticket-appeals

[sigma]

Yes, it was on the East Midlands news last week. A disabled pensioner had parked in a disabled space, his blue badge was upside down, not back to front but upside down. The warden had issued a ticket on the councils behalf on the grounds that the badge was incorrectly displayed, utter nonsense, and the council backed the warden and dismissed the appeal.

[factor-fiction]

So it wasn't incorrectly issued.
If there is no further appeals procedure within the council then either go to the ombudsman or get the press involved.
Also try asking CAB.

[RATTER15]

A bit debatable IMO, a bit retarded I agree, but it was upside down, if that is against the rules of the carpark...............

[cathfromsaron]

when you appealed did an appeals panel sit or did the oik on the desk just reject the appeal? if so, you can appeal on procedural grounds! xx

[RATTER15]

I may be wrong but I think it is also against the law to display an Excise License (tax disc) upside down in a car.

[north star]

If the council reject your appeal, they (should) provide detals of how to appeal to a parking adjudicator. PATAS, I believe in the London area and Traffic Penalty Tribunals elsewhere.

[Hymie]

This BBC story on the subject, dated 24 June is at odds with your version of current situation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...tinghamshire-13900521

[New Judge]

This story sums up Britain today. A driver is sufficiently disabled to get a Blue Badge and an able-bodied jobsworth gives him a ticket for displaying his badge upside down. (Presumably it's too much effort for the jobsworths to crane their necks, or perhaps it's elf n' safety).

[hc4361]

In the same way an able bodied person is required to display a car park ticket in a certain way, it is not too much to expect a disabled person (or the driver) to display the badge in the correct way.

There is a huge amount of fraudulent use of the disabled badge and all people who use the badge legitimately should make sure they use it properly. It is not a lot to ask.

[New Judge]

No it's not, hc, I agree.

But the transgression does not warrant the same penalty as a driver who, say, parks in a car park, pays nothing and walks away for the day. A polite note in the post, perhaps, asking the offender to be more careful? Oh I forgot, that wouldn't raise any cash for the local authority.

[CanisMajor]

so what is "upside down", if I sit in the drivers seat and put the blue badge on the dash, should the writing be the right way up for me sitting there or the right way up from the other side. Are there clear guidelines for this? If not then they can't say it's "upside down"

[Dodger666]

I suspect that "upside down means that the photograph of the blue badge holder was being displayed and not badge details including the expiry date.

We regularly read about abuse of the blue badge system. I my view the authorities encourage this abuse by having the badges displayed whilst parked with the photograph of the owner not on view. Why can't the badge be designed so there is only one way to display it with everything on the same side?

[sigma]

No Dodger, that would be "back to front", upside down was as Canis Major described it. The only guide lines are that it must be displayed showing the expiry date not the photo.

The trouble with this is that it doesn't show who the badge has been issued to and leaves the system open to abuse.