Daughter's Disabled Blue Badge Stolen

Oldernotwiser

But if this is the case, surely you wouldn't be paying 42.00 per day in parking charges as you'd only be there for half an hour or so when you pick her up and drop her off?

I think that you're frantically back pedalling because people have pointed out that you're misusing the card.

inspector_monkfish

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

But if this is the case, surely you wouldn't be paying 42.00 per day in parking charges as you'd only be there for half an hour or so when you pick her up and drop her off?

I think that you're frantically back pedalling because people have pointed out that you're misusing the card.

We are living at the hospital currently, because it is not our local one.

She's 6 !
Do you really think we'd leave her there on her own?

Jomo

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

For your information, my daughter is allowed out on day release at times, so we need the car there to get her out and about. The hospital is in the middle of london, and public transport is not an option.

Well at least you are now aware that you should not be using it in this way.

inspector_monkfish

Jomo wrote: »

Well at least you are now aware that you should not be using it in this way.

what??

i was using it to take my sick daughter to and from hospital. whats wrong with that?

Oldernotwiser

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

We are living at the hospital currently, because it is not our local one.

She's 6 !
Do you really think we'd leave her there on her own?

Sorry, most people have to if they're working or have other children.

Anyway, you shouldn't be using your Blue Badge in this way.

dmg24

I can only speak for my Trust, but we would allow BB holders to park for free where they were visiting children (and where the BB was held by virtue of the child's condition). Those that are questioning the OP's entitlement should remember that hospital car parks are private property, and as such can make their own rules. Without knowing which Trust the OP is at, no one can say whether they are allowed to use it or not, and calling someone 'scum' is completely out of order.

im, sorry to hear your daughter is back in hospital. Hope things get better soon.

Jomo

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

Desperately need it, as she is an in-patient at hospital at mom, and without it we have to pay £42 per day to park!!! Free when blue badge displayed.

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

what??

i was using it to take my sick daughter to and from hospital. whats wrong with that?

Not according to your original post......parking costs for taking there and back does not amount to £42 per day and you also stated she was an inpatient.

Whilst I accept that you may have thought it was ok to use the blue badge under these circumstances, unless the owner of the badge requires the parking space it should not be used. And as your daughter would not have been in the car on all of your trips, you should not have been using the badge.

looby75

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Sorry, most people have to if they're working or have other children.

Anyway, you shouldn't be using your Blue Badge in this way.

My BIL has a blue badge, he often has hospital appointments where he's in all day and only finds out at the end of the day if he has to stay in overnight, my sister takes him to the hospital uses the blue badge to park in the disabled areas, stays with BIL all day and then either they go home together or leaves him in hospital over night, obviously she has to use the car to get home. When she goes to pick him up the next day she will again park in the disabled bays. Someone at the hospital queried if when she was picking him up (ie he wasn't in the car) she could use the badge, so they went to the council and they confirmed that as long as she was going to pick him up, not just visit him, she was perfectly entitled to use the blue badge to enter the disabled area (which is closer to the hospital entrance).

It sounds as though the OP is using their daughters blue badge in a very similar way to my Sister and BIL so I would have thought it was fine for them to use it.

inspector_monkfish

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Sorry, most people have to if they're working or have other children.

Anyway, you shouldn't be using your Blue Badge in this way.

So what should we do then?

Are you suggesting we drop our 6 year old daughter off on the front steps of the hospital, wave goodbye and tell her to call us when she wants picking up???

inspector_monkfish

looby75 wrote: »

My BIL has a blue badge, he often has hospital appointments where he's in all day and only finds out at the end of the day if he has to stay in overnight, my sister takes him to the hospital uses the blue badge to park in the disabled areas, stays with BIL all day and then either they go home together or leaves him in hospital over night, obviously she has to use the car to get home. When she goes to pick him up the next day she will again park in the disabled bays. Someone at the hospital queried if when she was picking him up (ie he wasn't in the car) she could use the badge, so they went to the council and they confirmed that as long as she was going to pick him up, not just visit him, she was perfectly entitled to use the blue badge to enter the disabled area (which is closer to the hospital entrance).

It sounds as though the OP is using their daughters blue badge in a very similar way to my Sister and BIL so I would have thought it was fine for them to use it.

thank-you. I have just had this confirmed as ok by the local car parking enforcement team.
I should think, more than any bigoted-know-all on here, they would be the ones that would know !!