When a blue badge counts for nothing
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My mother is very frail and cannot walk very far without becoming quite distressed and has a current blue ticket disabled parking permit.
The roads were jammed with parked cars everywhere, but I spotted a gap in a parking bay outside the elderly persons' entrance to the hospital so parked there.
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Hide AdThere was a parking sign, bearing the code H, which I assumed to be hospital parking.
Needless to say, I was issued with a ticket and charged 60.
I appealed on the grounds that the disabled parking permit was properly displayed (the photos taken by the traffic warden confirmed this) but it was rejected.
No reason was given other than that my appeal was fully considered.
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Hide AdThe letter was signed by Mr Pimpong, who is uncontactable as you are not allowed to telephone or meet personally with this gentleman.
You can imaging the distress caused to my mother at having to pay 60 for a visit to a hospital.
Brian Wheeler
Beach Road
Shoreham-by-Sea
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