Hi everyone, i recently received a parking charge notice from a company called nexus for £60 if paid in 14 days or £200 thereafter and I immediately appealed the charge as I was in a disabled bay and had explained i definitely displayed my blue badge and also explained my circumstances including being a double leg amputee but the next day i received an email stating my appeal was rejected? I was parked at Livingston shopping centre but have never experienced having a ticket as I had been parked for 2.5 hrs and 2 hours i think was the allowance but displayed my blue badge? should i pay it?
This is quite complex. You’ve had some good advice about appeals processes, plus some poor advice to just ignore it!
Was the ticket for not displaying a Blue Badge when in a disabled bay, or for overstaying a time limit? If it’s the latter, and there is no exemption stated for Blue Badge holders, then unfortunately they have you bang to rights and your blue badge and disability won’t wash with them unless someone feels benevolent.
As has been stated, these tickets are not legally enforceable fines if issued on private land, and it’s well worth appealing them, but you need to mention quite a few things in the appeal which I’m guessing that you won’t have done. I had one once and, after a lot of research, my appeal letter was two full A4 pages, including such things as asking them to evidence the financial loss that they had incurred (which, of course, they couldn’t). That was overturned! One other time I’d gone over on a time limit, so I grudgingly paid it as I was in the wrong and I didn’t want the hassle of having letter after letter with increasing levels of penalties and fees, followed by threats of civil recovery etc.
For those who advocate just ignoring these things, I recommend watching one of the programmes such as “Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay” or “Call the Bailiffs” to see how ignoring things such as this can get out of control and end up costing the person many many times the original fine!