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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/porsche-911-towed-after-being-parked-with-someone-elses-disabled-badge-a3106736.html
as someone that MAY be soon be entitled(terrible word)to use a disabled badge,
does the badge belong to the person? or the car,
ie if a holder is in a friends vehicle, is the badge still valid.....???
Bob
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Badge belongs to the person not the car
If I am in another vehicle with another person I can use my badge.
Not to be used by another person if holder is not with them
Just received my new one today :-D :-D :-D
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That's What I thought, thanks........
Bob
so this council COULD be in the wrong, then..........
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My pleasure. All the information is online usually on your local council site.
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The blue badge goes with the holder who can use it with any car or van.
If the car is legally parked and the badge holder is not present then the warden must wait until the end of the parking period for the badge holder to return before issuing any ticket. Towing etc is only legal if there is a "will be towed" notice for the parking unless the car is uninsured according to MID. It is very unlikely that the removal of the Porsche would have heppened otherwise. Usually (in London) the miscreant has been misusing the blue badge day in day out before such drastic action is taken often after warning and parking ticket(s).
Very often local people denounce the offending vehicle and surprisingly this is far more likely to happen with Porsche, Chelsea Tractors, Beemers and so on. One may have thought people would like to see some top gear in their street ;-)
There is a thriving trade in stolen and quality forged blue badges. Once a blue badge has been identified as being used improperly it is cancelled which can be very hard on the owner who may be unaware of the improper use - usually by a family member.
The badge must be displayed right way up with correct arrival time. If a parking warden wants to compare the photo with holder than this must be allowed.
Tax exempt cars may or may not be driven by the person for whom the tax exemption is claimed. The disabled person need not be present in the vehicle so long as the journey is for the direct benefit of the disabled person e.g. picking up medicines, shopping. Use by a family member for daily trip to work would not qualify.
When a tax exempt car is used without the exempt person it remains eligible for free parking e.g. at hospitals, most municipal car parks, many NCP. However the blue badge entitlement does not exist when the disabled person is not present and it should not then be displayed.
This situation has always tied up parking wardens in knots. However until a year ago they could always bend their back and read "tax exempt" on the disk. Now the disks have gone the warden can see no proof of exemption ...
DVLA wanted local govt to fork out for a gadget which would allow wardens to check on a vehicles status. They refused to on grounds of cost. Some councils have told their wardens not to issue tickets if a blue badge is displayed. However the blue badge does not give any entitlement to free parking of itself (*) while a tax exempt vehicle may not have the blue badge holder present and so cannot legally display the blue badge.
DVLA, LocalGovt and AgeConcern plus various disability groups are aware of the situation. The cheapest and simplest solution is to bring back tax exempt disks for the disabled but that makes a nonsense of doing away with the tax disks in the first place ... so it was vetoed by the minister. Also cars displaying "tax exempt" were often vandalised in areas of high parking stress.
IMHO DVLA could create an "app" to be deployed at low cost but they and LocalGovt cannot agree on who should pay and who should supply a smart phone as the warden's own phone is deemed insecure.
Tax exempt vehicles are also exempt from the London congestion charge which is quite cool.
good luck
(*) Some boroughs allow free parking in their car parks for blue badge holders who register specific car reg nos. with them.
(**) above applies only to UK reg vehicles though blue badges can be used with vehicle displaying plates of any country. No further comment or I will be written up.
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