The report also showed that 45 blue badge parking permits had been removed from members of the public who had misused them in 2024-25.<\/p>\n
A recent change to the blue badge penalty system meant cautions could now be offered to the offender as an alternative to prosecution, it explained.<\/p>\n
The council report said: “Parking services continues to remove blue badges where they are being abused.<\/p>\n
“They were confiscated for misuse and the car driver issued with a penalty notice. These were instances where the badge holder was not present when used. <\/p>\n
“Upon request, these were sent back to the badge holder with a reminder of their use.”<\/p>\n
The number of blue badges removed from members of the public in the most recent period was down from 86 offences in the previous year, the document stated.<\/p>\n
The fall was potentially due to increased publicity, it said.<\/p>\n
“The option to offer a caution has enabled a more cost-effective penalty which stays on record and can be used as evidence should the offender misuse a blue badge in the future and a prosecution pursued,” according to the report.<\/p>\n
“In 2024-25 no prosecutions took place. The service will undertake prosecutions where this is deemed to be appropriate.”<\/p>\n
The British Parking Association said that since 2016, misuse cases related to blue badges nationally had increased by over 1,000%.<\/p>\n
The fraud report is due to be examined by members of Sheffield City Council’s audit and standards committee later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report also showed that 45 blue badge parking permits had been removed from members of the public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-428211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115212583149899151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}