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Decision report 201004589

  • Case ref:
    201004589
  • Date:
    October 2011
  • Body:
    Perth and Kinross Council
  • Sector:
    Local Government
  • Outcome:
    Not upheld, no recommendations
  • Subject:
    parking

Summary
Mr C complained about the withdrawal of a Disabled Person's Parking Blue Badge (the Blue Badge) that the council had given his autistic son, Master A. The council had given the Bule Badge in 2004, re-issued it in 2007, and withdrawn it in 2010.

The council acknowledged that when the Blue Badge was previously issued and re-issued to Master A they incorrectly applied the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007. By correctly applying the legislation in 2010, Master A did not qualify for a Blue Badge.

We did not uphold Mr C’s allegation that the council had refused to renew Master A’s Blue Badge. We confirmed that the legislation had been correctly applied in 2010. We noted that before Mr C brought the complaint to us the council had apologised to him that they had not correctly applied the legislation when the Blue Badge had been re-issued in 2007.
 

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