Parking

Annieuk75

MrsE wrote: »

Would you not stop & think that maybe you are setting yourself up for a fall DEMANDING a space?

Your attitude that the staff should give up their space for you is not doing you any favours.

Your DH is blind but there is nothing stopping you letting him out on your doorstep & then you going & parking a little bit away. Lots of people do this, with children too.

Thank you, I understand what you are saying, but that is one of the problems. Where our property is, you cannot drive to the door, so we have a few minutes walk from the car park to our property anyway, which we have no problem with. We have never 'demanded' a space, we have asked very nicely and gone through correct procedures. There are some very mean people where we live who have spread a lot of nasty gossip about my family and it is because of this that a lot of people will not support is in our request.

All I have ever wanted, is somewhere to park. We live on a very large site and there is ample room to give parking spaces to staff and tenants, but they refuse to do so. As I have mentioned before, the fact that they allow 1 tenant a specific space and will not do the same for others is very unfair. If I come back home and there are no spaces, I have to park somewhere else, then later on when the car park is emptier, I then have to go back out again and move it.

I'm sorry if I have come across as a bit bolshy, but this is a very hard time for me at the moment. I have a lot going on in my life and things like this don't help.

Annieuk75

MrsE wrote: »

I really took exception to this comment.

They are a charity for the blind, they are not going to fall over backwards to provide facilities for non-blind people are they?

Not giving you a preferential parking space is not treating you badly.

I am sorry if I offended anybody with my comment, but they do advertise that they welcome sighted partners, therefore they must understand that I am also on the tenancy, pay towards the rent etc, so I also have a voice. When I said 'this is how WE are treated' I meant we as in my family.

I give up a lot of my spare time to help the tenants, so please do not think I am only ever looking out for myself. I worry when there is not a parking space, as sometimes I have to park somewhere that could obstruct people, that is why I go back to move my car as soon as I can. Obviousley if my son is asleep, I have to wait for him to wkae up thenstrap him into the car so that I can move it to a safer place.

Annieuk75

I must also add that i wish i could move away from here to a house with a drive - how wonderful would that be! But, like amny others, we cannot afford to buy and will probably never be able to afford to. So I understand the sentiments from you all, that I either put up with it or move, but that is not an option.

Also regarding discrimination, you can also discriminate against somebody because of their disability. My husband has had this all his life, as have most disabled people...and it is illegal, that is what the Disability Discrimination Act is all about.

xmaslolly76

But they are not discriminating against your husband he doesnt drive you do!

clairet707

Annieuk75 wrote: »

I must also add that i wish i could move away from here to a house with a drive - how wonderful would that be! But, like amny others, we cannot afford to buy and will probably never be able to afford to. So I understand the sentiments from you all, that I either put up with it or move, but that is not an option.

Also regarding discrimination, you can also discriminate against somebody because of their disability. My husband has had this all his life, as have most disabled people...and it is illegal, that is what the Disability Discrimination Act is all about.

Whats wrong with renting privately then, you dont have to buy a house??

Annieuk75

We couldn't afford to rent privately...due to circumstances that I am not prepared to discuss.

And they are discriminating against my husband. They have given a parking space to the partner of 1 tenant, and refused the same rights to another tenant. Therefore, not giving the same rights to each person.

Discriminate: to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people.

MrsE_2

Annieuk75 wrote: »

Thank you, I understand what you are saying, but that is one of the problems. Where our property is, you cannot drive to the door, so we have a few minutes walk from the car park to our property anyway, which we have no problem with. We have never 'demanded' a space, we have asked very nicely and gone through correct procedures. There are some very mean people where we live who have spread a lot of nasty gossip about my family and it is because of this that a lot of people will not support is in our request.

All I have ever wanted, is somewhere to park. We live on a very large site and there is ample room to give parking spaces to staff and tenants, but they refuse to do so. As I have mentioned before, the fact that they allow 1 tenant a specific space and will not do the same for others is very unfair. If I come back home and there are no spaces, I have to park somewhere else, then later on when the car park is emptier, I then have to go back out again and move it.

I'm sorry if I have come across as a bit bolshy, but this is a very hard time for me at the moment. I have a lot going on in my life and things like this don't help.

I know parking is stressful (I used to live in London!!!).

But you will get no-where with the charity suggesting you need the space more than the staff.

Your best bet is to appeal on the grounds that another tenant has a space & you want to be treated the same;)

Try not to let it bleed into your home life, leave it outside with the car;)

Annieuk75

Thanks Mrs E, it's the cherry on the top of the cake at the moment. We have had so many problems with the landlord over the last few years and also a lot of personal problems. We love where we live, the property, the area...would be a lot better without the landlord and neighbours!

Thank you for your kind words

GDB2222

Annieuk75 wrote: »

We couldn't afford to rent privately...due to circumstances that I am not prepared to discuss.

And they are discriminating against my husband. They have given a parking space to the partner of 1 tenant, and refused the same rights to another tenant. Therefore, not giving the same rights to each person.

Discriminate: to treat a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people.

Yes, thank you for that correction. I left disability off the list, which was silly of me. However, in this particular case, the charity is not discriminating on the grounds of your disability or your husband's. They may have made a managerial decision not to allocate any more staff spaces to tenants, even though there is a precedent. They may regret the original decision, and they can change their policy. That's discrimination based on a change in policy over time, which the law permits. You really can't play the discrimination card successfully in this particular case, and you'll make yourself very, very unpopular if you try to.

Catblue

Annie, sometimes you need to be careful what you wish for.

If you say that they are discriminating against your husband by failing to provide a parking space for him, then are they not also discriminating against the other 58 tenants by failing to provide a parking space for each of them?

If the charity did provide a parking space for you, then surely (in the interests of equality) they need to provide a parking space for the spouse/relative of all other tenants?

To do otherwise really WOULD be discriminatory.

At the moment, you are sometimes able to park in the visitors' car park but the charity could easily decide that, in the interests of fairness, sighted spouses/relatives who stay overnight do not have to right to park in visitors' spaces at all, which would mean that you would ALWAYS have to park a long way away.

Now that would be entirely fair, but not a good outcome for you.