Latest news in Yorkshire: September 13, 2017 10:55:39 AM
Rotherham Council is to crack down on the misuse of disabled parking badges following two more prosecutions for blue badge abuse in Rotherham Town Centre.
The latest cases were heard at Sheffield Magistrates Court on Tuesday 8th August 2017.
Asim Zaman, 21, of Middlefield Road, Rotherham pleaded guilty to using his grandmother’s blue badge to park his vehicle in a designated disabled parking bay in Douglas Street car park, Rotherham, in November 2016. Zaman was fined £100 with £300 costs and £30 victim surcharge.
Andrew Allen, 31, of High Hazel Crescent, Catcliffe, Rotherham, pleaded to using his daughter’s blue badge to park his vehicle in a designated disabled parking bay on Don Street, Rotherham, in February 2017. Allen was fined £100 with £300 costs and £30 victim surcharge.
Rotherham Council’s Cabinet Member for Jobs and the Local Economy Cllr Denise Lelliott said: “The Council has now prosecuted a total of 113 cases where blue badges of blue badge misuse – including 11 in 2017 alone.
“Unfortunately despite this high number of successful prosecutions, people continue to try and park with blue badges that they are not entitled to use.
“People need to be aware that misusing designated disabled parking facilities is not only illegal, but it also inconveniences people who have genuine needs and often prevents genuine badge holders from undertaking their shopping or business.
“We will continue to prosecute such cases where it is in the public interest to do so and our parking services team will be stepping up their efforts to stamp out this anti-social practice.”
- A magical range of events will be unwrapped at Yorkshire WildlifePark
- Burglary of elderly couple – did you witness anything?
- Keep yourself safe against fraud with these top tips from SY Police
- New students invited to Barnsley College’s Open Day
- Forge Island footbridge works completed ahead of schedule
- Special contribution to force Covid response
- Burman Road in Wath-upon-Dearne
- Barnsley antisocial behaviour
- Bell Tent Season
- University Centre Rotherham Appoints Contractor Willmott Dixon
- Northern strike to go ahead tomorrow
- Wath Brewers Whitworth Son and Nephew
- Barnsley man charged with domestic assault
- Sheffield student’s MDMA death: Dealers are jailed
- Man named in Sheffield murder inquiry
- £30 million housing boost for Rotherham Town Centre
- £20k drugs haul lands Doncaster man behind bars for six years
- Bin collections across Rotherham are changing
- Waterstones Glassworks Wath-upon-Dearne
- Work begins on Gulliver’s theme park
- Provisional results show Barnsley KS2 pupils are leading the way
- New Sponsor for Wath Comprehensive School
- Barnsley College to open its doors
- Rotherham trio wanted for crystal meth conviction
- Picture released by family
- Flame of Hope in Rotherham for 2017 Special Olympics Torch Run
- Promote fear for loadsa money
- Art and Design students gain Picasso insight
- Wombwell man murdered by killer out on licence, inquest hears
- E-fit released in connection to indecent exposure, Doncaster
- Rotherham peer charged with rape and indecent assault
- Sheffield man found guilty of murder
- Scandal-hit Rotherham Council spent £16m on agency staff
- Council to consult on budget proposals as pressures continue to grow
- CCTV released in connection to Sheffield sex assault
- Police vehicle tyres slashed in Sheffield – Madness!
- Shots fired at house in Doncaster – did you see anything?
- Renewed appeal one week on from death of Barnsley man
- Third man sentenced for Rotherham bank raid
- Celebrating their last Carol Service – Wath Main Miners