Grrr - blue badge

Unity

Ames wrote: »

I'm shocked, I really am. I don't have a problem with the elderly getting a badge if they need one, but automatically's going a bit too far I think.

Babshubbie wrote: »

Me, too. And I am 82 very soon!

Well, it is Scotland where if you remember they still have free prescriptions and free dentists .

Funny though - when you consider that the oldest entrant for the Great North Run this year was 84 and reckons he's not giving up yet :T and good for him!

Oh yes and they never have to worry about forgetting to put their clock out with their badges either :rolleyes:.

Should we all move up there then? :rotfl:

Too bloomin' cold!

Unity

Pete268 wrote: »

The 'automatic' issue criteria as set down in the Department for Transport Guidance to local authorities are:

In receipt of Hight Rate Mobility Component of DLA or

In receipt of the War Pensioners Mobility Supplement or

Are Registered Blind.

All other applicants should be disabled and subject to the local authorities procedure for issuing blue badges.

Peter.

Well here's the link http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/GeneralR.aspx?id=453&catid=1342 but as previously stated it is Scotland .

Torry_Quine

Here in Scotland we don't at the moment have free prescriptions yet although that is the aim in a few years.

Certainly here there is no automatic entitlement to a blue badge based purely on age. My MIL is 84 and lives in a care home but still needed to apply for a badge which lasts for three years. She had to give details of her medical reason for needing it and the name of her GP who was contacted for confirmation.

It is very useful when we take her out as without it suitable parking for getting her into her wheelchair would be nigh on impossible.

Pete268

Unity wrote: »

Well here's the link http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/GeneralR.aspx?id=453&catid=1342 but as previously stated it is Scotland .

Well, Scotland or anywhere, the criteria should be the same throughout.

No wonder the genuinely disabled in other areas who cannot get a BB for whatever reason get hacked off.

|Peter.

Pete268

According to the undermentioned article another local authority that issues to the over 80's regardless of whether disabled or not is North Tyneside:

http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/latest-news/Changes-to-disabled-blue-badges.4734028.jp

So not just Scotland!

Another is Chester if over 90!!

It makes a total mockery of the scheme in my mind.

Peter

Unity

Pete268 wrote: »

According to the undermentioned article another local authority that issues to the over 80's regardless of whether disabled or not is North Tyneside:

http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/latest-news/Changes-to-disabled-blue-badges.4734028.jp

So not just Scotland!

Peter

Well I never, that's quite near me! Now I know why you can never get parked there . Mind you it only says they will automatically renew BB's for those over 80 and it's excellent to read that they will give automatic badges to those who are terminally ill.

Unity

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Here in Scotland we don't at the moment have free prescriptions yet although that is the aim in a few years.

Certainly here there is no automatic entitlement to a blue badge based purely on age. My MIL is 84 and lives in a care home but still needed to apply for a badge which lasts for three years. She had to give details of her medical reason for needing it and the name of her GP who was contacted for confirmation.

It is very useful when we take her out as without it suitable parking for getting her into her wheelchair would be nigh on impossible.

Hi Torry Quine, well certainly have a look at this link http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/General...453&catid=1342 as you can always use it as evidence next time you need to renew your MIL's badge, if there's a problem.

When are they implementing the free prescriptions up there? You do realise you'll be inundated with asylum seekers don't you - all of us from England :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:, especially those of us with children wanting to go to university as well. Can I claim residency since my grandfather's family were Scottish? I am only joking - or am I?

Seriously it does worry me, that this trend towards barring BB holders from parking unless they also have the road tax exemption is a step too far. It means that effectively every disabled person will either have to have a car or a specific nominated driver, when the whole idea of the badge was originally so it could even be used in a taxi, if they were waiting for someone to go into a shop etc. The hidden implications are worrying too - say where a number of children would normally share the driving for a disabled parent, moving the badge from car to car - this would it seems not now be possible. It is an erosion of disabled people's rights, yet again and is basically down to able bodied lazy beggars abusing another's badge!

And what about those who become disabled after 65 and therefore cannot claim DLA - they might as well not bother having a badge at all!

luxor4t

Ames wrote: »

I'm shocked, I really am. I don't have a problem with the elderly getting a badge if they need one, but automatically's going a bit too far I think.

My 75 year old MiL can outwalk me any day - she needs to be a good walker, she keeps forgetting where she is going :rolleyes: .

Babshubbie

luxor4t wrote: »

My 75 year old MiL can outwalk me any day - she needs to be a good walker, she keeps forgetting where she is going :rolleyes: .

:rotfl: :T

f1nola

I would love the job of checking people's blue badge details, especially as most of the time people seem to use other people's badges who are not in the vehicle with them. I would fine them and remove the badge from the user.
When my husband and I go to USA on holiday their disabled scheme works so much better than ours as their parking is monitored by local police and it works! I never have a problem using their facilities and people respect that and dont do it. Great pity others here dont see the issue regarding mis-use of parking privilages.
If we brought some sort of checking facility into use someone would decide it was discrimination, where i for one and others would see it as a step in the right direction and we would have more parking available.
Another moan.....wish they would not put disabled parking close to cash machines, big mistake by planners cos there is always someone parked in a space running out to get cash while we drive around looking for a space, Grrrr!:mad: