supermarket disabled bays

johnnygogo

I read today that Tesco was holding off fining people who don't have blue badges displayed when parking in their disabled bays.
Well done Tesco.Asda and Sainsburys are asking people to cough up £60 as a "fine" if someone parks not displaying a badge in one of their disabled bays.How discriminatory is that? apart from illegal.There are thousands of people entitled to park in these bays who have disabilities but no badge.If you're thinking -well if they were disabled why don't they have one? Getting a blue badge isn't easy for a start as it's all based around mobility.But examples of people who need to be near the entrance can be cancer patients, people with heart problems,respiratory and breathing problems,people with colostomies and ileostomies,people who have problems carrying.. the list of disabled people who are ENTITLED to use the bays without a blue badge is endless.The Disability Discrimination Act covers all people with disabilities- not just blue badge holders.That only applies when parking on the streets when it is enforcable by law.

If you get a fine by Asda or any other store you should refer them to the Equality and Human Rights Commission who know about the D.D.A. or say you'll fine them!!

Coupon-mad

Or just ignore any 'fine' and letters that are sent after parking in a Supermarket car park as they are not worth the paper they are written on.

But where did you read this about Tesco, out of interest, do you have a link? They often use the same parking-scam firms as Sainsburys and Asda anyway.

johnnygogo

It was on Disability Now I think,where-ironically,people were applauding Asda's moves!!

DontPayThePPCs

This is a strange paradox.

Many PPCs who ticket blue badge holders go to great pains to make it clear that the badges are not valid on private land.

Why, then, are they using non-display of said badge as a reason for issuing one of their invoices?

You can't have it both ways (unless you're a PPC!).....

sheslookinhot

Fining people who abuse these disabled bays is long overdue. If you don't have a badge, don't use them.

elsien

Not sure that my friend with a colostomy would agree that she needs to use a disabled bay, given she holds down a full time job, runs her house, goes skiing and rambling etc. And doesn't consider herself disabled or in need of special treatment.

DontPayThePPCs

sheslookinhot wrote: »

Fining people who abuse these disabled bays is long overdue. If you don't have a badge, don't use them.

I agree, but let's have the fining done by someone who actually has the authority to fine, rather than someone who pretends to by sending threatening letters from their kitchen table!

biscuitdunker

elsien wrote: »

Not sure that my friend with a colostomy would agree that she needs to use a disabled bay, given she holds down a full time job, runs her house, goes skiing and rambling etc. And doesn't consider herself disabled or in need of special treatment.

Your friend doesn't have to agree or use a disabled bay. Doesn't mean someone else with a colostomy bag shouldn't be entitled to use a disabled bay.

biscuitdunker

sheslookinhot wrote: »

Fining people who abuse these disabled bays is long overdue. If you don't have a badge, don't use them.

The badges don't mean anything on private land. (And neither do the fines)

Careful_with_that_Axe

OP, the disabled spaces are reserved for Blue Badge holders only not for all people with disabilities. I would urge anyone who qualifies for one to get a Blue Badge.

McKneff

sheslookinhot wrote: »

Fining people who abuse these disabled bays is long overdue. If you don't have a badge, don't use them.

Tesco, Morrisons or any other supermarket or any private parking companies do not have the authority to find anyone, disabled or not,
having a blue badge or not. Only the council and the police have this authority.

These 'fines' are unenforceable and the way you treat them is to completely ignore them, no matter how many threats about court or bailiffs that they say they may carry out. Just ignore them, they cannot do a thing.

Disabled bays in supermarkets are just a courtesy and nothing else.
Same goes for Parent and Child parking spaces.