In thinking my parents are right to park in parent and toddler spaces

[lesley33]

Both of my parents are disabled. They can both walk, but it is a struggle to walk far. They also have a blue badge. At their local supermarket, some of the parent and todddler spaces are closer to the store entrance than any of the disabled parking spaces.

They don't need the extra space provided in the parent and toddler parking spaces. But the extra distance from the disabled parking spaces really makes a difference to them. So they park in the nearer parent and toddler parking spaces. I think this is fine - given the specific circumstances.

AIBU?

I don't think the poster's parents are BU but there are a lot of people who part in P&C spaces- and it seems to be older people without children, though probably a reflection of the population where I live, who don't have a blue badge or any other problem apart from suffering from LOFS (Lazy Old Fart Syndrome).

Well, they said fine, for breaching the posted regulations.

Yeah they will but they're not the courts or police and the law doesn't particularly like them. They will try to tell you it's a fine hoping on the ignorance of the person they're talking to to get away with it. It's a fee and it's pretty much voluntary if you decide to pay them. You're only legally obliged to pay the ones given by police and traffic wardens, if you don't fight them.

They try it for parking too long, in the wrong place... none are enforceable they do the heavy act and hope you're scared into believing them. Money Expert are big on parking fees if you want to check it out, they have letters to send at each stage and how to deal with different issues that crop up. I've used it when my OH got a fee in my dad's car and sent a friend who is a young widow with little children to them when she was terrified about it as she didn't have the money and they'd done the heavy act on her.