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I've been sent the following PCN from a family friend. Basically what happened was the driver was accompanying her friend to the hospital and parked on Huntley Street nearby. They had been there as recently as November 2023 and it was fine at the time to use a disabled badge. However something must have changed since then because I've done some reading and apparently there is now a green badge zone where blue badges can not be used.

The driver has a disabled badge and parked there mistakenly thinking in Camden it was fine to park in a residents bay with a badge. Is there any way out of this or explaining it was a misunderstanding and something to remember for next time as it is the first time they'd faced such a thing.

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This is the location of the ticket

As said, green badge scheme has been going far longer than 2023 and where you can use a blue badge are on Camden's site and also on UCH's site.

You can try asking for discretion - they cancelled this case but it was at the edge go the green zone and not so clear.

https://www.ftla.uk/civil-penalty-charge-notices-(councils-tfl-and-so-on)/camden-pcn-code-01-yellow-line/