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UKPC Asda Car Park- No Disabled Badge Displayed
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Good morning all,
 
Last month my dad recieved two parking charge tickets from UKPC under the grounds that the vehicle was parked on a disabled parking bay without a disabled badge on display. This happened on two seperate occasions and my dad who is a disabled badge holder insists that he displayed the badge correctly beforehand but it slipped. He later realised that the dashboard was damaged which was causing the badge to slip from its position.

He appealed to UKPC as the registered keeper and received a response from UKPC requesting to see a valid disabled badge. I'm uncertain however if this would jeopardise the appeal since he appealed as the registered keeper and not driver. Perhaps I'm being too cautious but I would appreciate any input. Attached are the PCNs, appeal and response from UKPC.

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Re: UKPC Asda Car Park- No Disabled Badge Displayed
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You can refer to it as the registered keeper’s disabled badge, surely? There is no requirement for the badge holder also to be the driver, is there? Someone else could have been driving.

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The appeal said "The driver of the vehicle at the time of the alleged contravention is a Blue Badge holder". They could try providing it with the name obscured.

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I don't understand the problem with sending them a copy of the Blue Badge. The blue badge owner, whether the Keeper or the driver or both is irrelevant. The vehicle only needs to have a blue badge holder in the vehicle to allow it to use a blue badge bay. Whether the Keeper is the blue badge holder does not matter. Anyone could be driving and as long as the driver is not identified, they will have nowhere to go with this anyway.

At POPLA the fact that the notice does not comply with PoFA 9(2)(a) should be enough to get it cancelled.

What about Plan A? Did the Keeper try and get ASDA to get it cancelled?
Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” - Mark Twain

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Whether the Keeper is the blue badge holder does not matter. Anyone could be driving
My point was that in their appeal, which they have already submitted, the keeper (who is the owner of the blue badge) has already said that the owner of the blue badge was driving.

I agree that trying ASDA would be a wise first port of call.

Another point, in your opening post, you mention two parking charges, but refer to only one appeal. Each charge must be appealed separately.

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I don't understand the problem with sending them a copy of the Blue Badge. The blue badge owner, whether the Keeper or the driver or both is irrelevant. The vehicle only needs to have a blue badge holder in the vehicle to allow it to use a blue badge bay. Whether the Keeper is the blue badge holder does not matter. Anyone could be driving and as long as the driver is not identified, they will have nowhere to go with this anyway.

At POPLA the fact that the notice does not comply with PoFA 9(2)(a) should be enough to get it cancelled.

What about Plan A? Did the Keeper try and get ASDA to get it cancelled?

Tried to contact Asda but they refused to give the email of the store manager.

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Whether the Keeper is the blue badge holder does not matter. Anyone could be driving
My point was that in their appeal, which they have already submitted, the keeper (who is the owner of the blue badge) has already said that the owner of the blue badge was driving.

I agree that trying ASDA would be a wise first port of call.

Another point, in your opening post, you mention two parking charges, but refer to only one appeal. Each charge must be appealed separately.

The same appeal was submitted for the both the charges, and UKPC sent the same response for both. For some reason this particular Asda store said they can't give the store manager's email and can only speak in person which in of itself is difficult also.

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CEO@asda.com

There are other posts here which saw cancellations after email to this address.

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CEO@asda.com

There are other posts here which saw cancellations after email to this address.

Will give it a go. Thanks.