When a blue badge counts for nothing

Re your article on parking signs, I took my 95-year-old mother to an appointment at Homefield/ Greenacres at Worthing Hospital.
By The Newsroom
Published 1st Apr 2009, 13:53 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 00:57 BST

Click here to see the original story.

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.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

There 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.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

The 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

NOTE: All letters must include a name and address which can be withheld by request.

Write in to Readers' Letters, Worthing Herald series, Cannon House, Chatsworth Road, Worthing, BN11 1NA, email the Herald, or use the contact us template by Clicking here.

-------------------------------------

Click here for more readers' letters.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

Where are you? Add your pin to the Herald's international readers' map by clicking here.

Email the Herald: [email protected]

Want to read this page in French, German, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Urdu or 48 other languages? click here for Google translate.

Related topics:Google