Is this disabled parking space official?

sigma said:
If the whole street was, for some bizarre reason, free for disabled badge holders, why would they put the sign at one end of the street?
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Ooh, so you've been able to Street View it where we aren't going to walk up and down a road looking for every sign.
In typical OCUK manner (and I would probably answered the same as all of you) it is very easy when you sit at your keyboard.
I'll guarantee that if you were there with all of us (the first 4 and 9+ at the end of the night) you would be looking at it the same.
The sign and 'parking zone' are very poorly explained and even the coppers who were asked didn't want to get involved (which they wouldn't anyway).
I will pay the fine but they will get a letter.
 
dmpoole said:
Ooh, so you've been able to Street View it where we aren't going to walk up and down a road looking for every sign.
In typical OCUK manner (and I would probably answered the same as all of you) it is very easy when you sit at your keyboard.
I'll guarantee that if you were there with all of us (the first 4 and 9+ at the end of the night) you would be looking at it the same.
The sign and 'parking zone' are very poorly explained and even the coppers who were asked didn't want to get involved (which they wouldn't anyway).
I will pay the fine but they will get a letter.
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No, I did not look any further down the street on street view - although there was nothing stopping you from walking down the street? I have done so before, to check whether it was OK to park somewhere, I've even gone back and moved my car after walking along the road and realising that I have parked somewhere I shouldn't have because it wasn't clearly signposted.

By all means, write a letter of complaint, it should be clearly marked 'disabled' (but then I guess this is why they have a sign post and a clearly marked bay, so there is no question of doubt about what it is) and obviously it should not have been left like it has been.

Sounds like you have some experience with parking in disabled spaces before, I'm just surprised that it didn't click or send alarm bells ringing.
 
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dmpoole said:
Don't understand - explain please.
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dmpoole said:
I have two disabled badge holders in my band and they also read the sign that they could park anywhere up that street without buying a ticket.
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I skim read that earlier and thought it said you had two badge holders in the family. Although, if you were with two badge holders who read the sign then surely they would have realised that it looked like all the other road spaces that they have previously parked in?
 
Wait what, theres an entire road with pay and display spaces all the way up, with several pay and display signs on the side of the road, but you decided to park in the novelty sized bay with a disabled only sign next to it, a disabled sign painted on the road next to the bay, and you're contesting it?
 
sigma said:
I skim read that earlier and thought it said you had two badge holders in the family. Although, if you were with two badge holders who read the sign then surely they would have realised that it looked like all the other road spaces that they have previously parked in?
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No, they were parked on the car park without a ticket because the machine had broke.
They came down to where I was parked and both said they would park anywhere on that road without a ticket because that's what the sign says - 'Disabled Badge Holders Only, Free Parking'
 
no ground to contest IMO,

if you gonna park in a disables spot, do it at the supermarket. ;)

i always go for the Parent and Child spots personally, as at my local they are neared the covered bit in case it rains.
 
alexisonfire said:
Wait what, theres an entire road with pay and display spaces all the way up, with several pay and display signs on the side of the road, but you decided to park in the novelty sized bay with a disabled only sign next to it, a disabled sign painted on the road next to the bay, and you're contesting it?
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You have to understand that it is a very old photo and there are no words on the road and the lines are very faded.
What you're seeing is not what it looks like now.
 
Let's disregard what a disabled badge holder would or would not have done.

The sign said "disabled badge holders only".

You parked right in front of it, yet you didn't have a disabled badge.

By your logic you shouldn't have parked anywhere on that street!
 
dmpoole said:
You have to understand that it is a very old photo and there are no words on the road and the lines are very faded.
What you're seeing is not what it looks like now.
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I see your point, that google street view is from 2009. In that case, if all the lines were faded, and there was no road markings stating which bay was for disabled, then you should have a case. I can see it could be confusing as there is a pay and display machine directly next to the free parking sign, implying that some of the bays would be pay and display, but without proper markings theres no way to tell which.
 
Dabbles said:
And why does it allow them to do that? Surely double yellows are painted in places where it is stupid/dangerous to park?
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because for people like my 84 year old grandmother who has had a hip operation it enables me to park close to the centre of town when i take her to the bank.
 
alexisonfire said:
I see your point, that google street view is from 2009. In that case, if all the lines were faded, and there was no road markings stating which bay was for disabled, then you should have a case. I can see it could be confusing as there is a pay and display machine directly next to the free parking sign, implying that some of the bays would be pay and display, but without proper markings theres no way to tell which.
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At last, thank you.
 
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