Been Refused Disabled Parking at Place of Work

Errata

OP - have a look, and a think, about this
Reasonable adjustments in the workplace

Under the DDA, your employer has a duty to make 'reasonable adjustments' to make sure you're not put at a substantial disadvantage by employment arrangements or any physical feature of the workplace.
Examples of the sort of adjustments your employer should consider, in consultation with you, include:

• allocating some of your work to someone else
• transferring you to another post or another place of work
• making adjustments to the buildings where you work
• being flexible about your hours - allowing you to have different core working hours and to be away from the office for assessment, treatment or rehabilitation
• providing training or retraining if you cannot do your current job any longer
• providing modified equipment
• making instructions and manuals more accessible
• providing a reader or interpreter

Frequent_Flyer_UK

Please do not take this the wrong way. When you say you have bad days and you forget to pay and are unable to walk should you really be driving .

Given state of health are you not posing a risk to other road users and pedestrians. If you are as ill as you sound your response times must be severely affected

robredz

johnboyle007 wrote: »

Please do not take this the wrong way. When you say you have bad days and you forget to pay and are unable to walk should you really be driving .

Given state of health are you not posing a risk to other road users and pedestrians. If you are as ill as you sound your response times must be severely affected

Follow that line of reasoning and you will put Motability Finance out of business, vehicles can be adapted for many degrees of disability, including joystick control drive by wire (like an Airbus), and walking difficulties do not neccessarily adversely affect reaction time in an adapted vehicle.

I have mobility restrictions that make it uncomfortable to drive a car very far, and after half an hour I would have difficulty getting out of the vehicle, but due to seating position and other ergonomic factors, I can drive a Sprinter van or a truck all day with appropriate rest breaks. There is NO inference that the OP is so affected that they would be unfit to drive, her GP would see that her capacity to drive was OK.

jazabelle

Errata wrote: »

OP - have a look, and a think, about this
Reasonable adjustments in the workplace

Under the DDA, your employer has a duty to make 'reasonable adjustments' to make sure you're not put at a substantial disadvantage by employment arrangements or any physical feature of the workplace.
Examples of the sort of adjustments your employer should consider, in consultation with you, include:

• allocating some of your work to someone else
• transferring you to another post or another place of work
• making adjustments to the buildings where you work
• being flexible about your hours - allowing you to have different core working hours and to be away from the office for assessment, treatment or rehabilitation
• providing training or retraining if you cannot do your current job any longer
• providing modified equipment
• making instructions and manuals more accessible
• providing a reader or interpreter

Thanks for that - the issue is that it is not my employer causing the issue, so it's not entirely application.

johnboyle007 wrote: »

Please do not take this the wrong way. When you say you have bad days and you forget to pay and are unable to walk should you really be driving .

Given state of health are you not posing a risk to other road users and pedestrians. If you are as ill as you sound your response times must be severely affected

My short term memory is rubbish, but luckily after you've learnt a skill, it is stored in the different part of the brain to your short term memory. Therefore, it does not affect my ability to drive.

I can't walk due to pain, but I can drive a car for short distances.

My response time is not affected by my memory or my level of pain, no.

jazabelle

Update: my appeal letter worked, I've been granted permission to park!

mrsmoneyworries

jazabelle wrote: »

Update: my appeal letter worked, I've been granted permission to park!

I have been following your plight and am so made up they saw sense.

Well done to you and your employer for keeping on at them :beer:.

trevormax

Congrats, glad the council finally saw sense and allowed you the use of a space.

I was going to suggest that if they had still not given you a space, you could try and get a lightweight foldable wheelchair as a temporary solution to get you from the car park to the office maybe but lickily it is not needed anymore. Well done for sticking to it and not giving in though :-)

Duffas27

jazabelle wrote: »

Update: my appeal letter worked, I've been granted permission to park!

and so you should have been...........i'm absolutley over the moon for you, well done!! X

Mips

Can't they just slap a bit of yellow paint around a current parking space?

buftymctufty

So someone else will now have to travel the distance as i assume they wont have just created a car park