Parking

barnaby-bear

Annieuk75 wrote: »

The staff are not 'essential car users' as the job does not involve any driving. Once they are on site they do not need to drive anywhere. The problem I have is that part of our rent goes towards the upkeep of the carpark. One tenant has a space, yet we are not allowed one because it was an agreement with a previous tenant.

How do you suggest they *get* to the site or that the site can ensure care workers work there rather than a centre where they can drive to, demanding care staff travel by public transport and restricting your potential applicants to those lucky enough to have good public transport links is unwise in the care sector especially if weekend/evening cover required.

You are not an essential car user by your definition - once in your flat you are not obliged to go out/travel elsewhere.

CFC

barnaby-bear wrote: »

How do you suggest they *get* to the site or that the site can ensure care workers work there rather than a centre where they can drive to, demanding care staff travel by public transport and restricting your potential applicants to those lucky enough to have good public transport links is unwise in the care sector especially if weekend/evening cover required.

You are not an essential car user by your definition - once in your flat you are not obliged to go out/travel elsewhere.

They are not essential car users either from the sound of it. My employer doesn't provide me with a car parking space. Many, if not most, employers do not.

poppysarah

At one point the government tried to stop firms having such large parking spaces. Instead of that though the govt decided congestion charge was more fun.

I think the OP needs to monitor the use of parking spaces carefully showing that a space being reserved for residents would be of no reduction in parking to visitors or staff. (ie: empty spaces in carpark every
day)
And again planning rules may have dictated the number of spaces they built whether or not they intended to allow residents to have them...

Annieuk75

barnaby-bear wrote: »

How do you suggest they *get* to the site or that the site can ensure care workers work there rather than a centre where they can drive to, demanding care staff travel by public transport and restricting your potential applicants to those lucky enough to have good public transport links is unwise in the care sector especially if weekend/evening cover required.

You are not an essential car user by your definition - once in your flat you are not obliged to go out/travel elsewhere.

You can not say that an employee is an 'essential car user' just because they use a car to get to work. You cannot discriminate and say taht you have to drive to work here. There are staff that work here taht drive and staff that come in by public transport. They all do the same job and get paid the same money. Being able to drive or not does not make you any better at your job.
Our landlord is a well known charity and I find it appalling that they put the needs of their staff before the needs of their tenants. They advertise that sighted people are welcome and yet this is how we are treated.
It was put to a vote in a tenants meeting the other night and the tenants voted that a designated parking space for tenants was not needed.

poppysarah

Annieuk75 wrote: »

It was put to a vote in a tenants meeting the other night and the tenants voted that a designated parking space for tenants was not needed.

because they should be able to park freely?
or because cars shouldnt' be owned by tenants?

Annieuk75

poppysarah wrote: »

because they should be able to park freely?
or because cars shouldnt' be owned by tenants?

They voted against it because they felt that because they are blind or visually impaired, none of them drive, so therefore don't need designated spaces. They forget that the landlord has invited in sighjted partners. What annoyed me was the other driver on site, who has a space in the staff carpark, her partner voted against it as well.

silvercar

You can not say that an employee is an 'essential car user' just because they use a car to get to work. You cannot discriminate and say taht you have to drive to work here

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You can say that shift work outside public transport hours will require own transport.

It could have been part of the benefit package for some of the posts that parking is available onsite.

As the rules haven't changed since you moved in, I can't see haw you have grounds for complaint. Your OH took the tenancy knowing there was no resident parking, you moved in in the same knowledge, you have no right to change things now.

barnaby-bear

Annieuk75 wrote: »

You can not say that an employee is an 'essential car user' just because they use a car to get to work. You cannot discriminate and say taht you have to drive to work here. There are staff that work here taht drive and staff that come in by public transport. They all do the same job and get paid the same money. Being able to drive or not does not make you any better at your job.
Our landlord is a well known charity and I find it appalling that they put the needs of their staff before the needs of their tenants. They advertise that sighted people are welcome and yet this is how we are treated.
It was put to a vote in a tenants meeting the other night and the tenants voted that a designated parking space for tenants was not needed.

The primary tenants seem to be blind people in need of on-site workers. The majority of tenants need those staff to come on site, they (their vote) and the charity have decided the best way to ensure this is to provide staff parking, the rent is paying the up keep of the car park to ensure this. The majority of tenants need the staff on site but have no need for someone's partner to drive - thus is sounds like the teants needs are being put first.

If on-street parking is so difficult that you are not prepared to use it - it suggests there is a real need for designated staff parking to ensure it is viable to get staff and to ensure the local community does not get annoyed and object to such specialised housing because staff are parking on-street.

Being able to drive and park on-site doesn't affect how you do your job but for shift workers at odd hours it may affect whether they will work at a location or elsewhere.

Why can't you use public transport or park off site?

barnaby-bear

Annieuk75 wrote: »

Our landlord is a well known charity and I find it appalling that they put the needs of their staff before the needs of their tenants.

If you don't like their policies why not move out to somewhere with parking and pay for the specialist adaptations yourself.

silvercar

If they granted you parking there is the risk that every new partner moving in could demand similar treatment.