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There is usually a requirement for a 10 minute grace period to allow a driver to find and read the signs, but that's based in the code of practice, not law, so that won't help you having ignored the appeal process. Even if you had raised that point during appeal, if the disabled bays have prominent signs in front of them saying that they are for blue badge holders only, the operator would have a good argument that you should at least have read that term and parked somewhere else to read the rest of the conditions.

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Cool for IAS. I'm pretty sure a court would see a distinction if it got that far. However, if they want to consider that stopping is parking, then their code of practice mandates a 5 minute consideration period for drivers to read and accept the signs. Can't have it both ways - either the consideration period doesn't apply because there's a distinction between stopping and parking (in which case PoFA doesn't apply either), or parking and stopping are the same thing, in which case the consideration period must be honoured.

I realise I'm late to the party, but it seems to me that the question of relevant land for PoFA doesn't even arise, because PoFA applies to Parking, and there is no dispute that OP did not in fact park. Unless I'm missing something, PoFA does not apply to "Stopping"