Daughter's Disabled Blue Badge Stolen

inspector_monkfish

Jomo wrote: »

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.

i'm sorry, but you are wrong.

chris_n_tj

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.

I agree with the above, and remember if the OP is away from home and has an ill child then who in their right mind who begrudge them a parking space. I for one wouldnt.
I hope your Daughter is feeling a bit better today.
Chris n TJ xx

Scarlett.1974

Goodness me, there's some judgemental people on this thread.

"Scum"? How polite.

OP, if you have to fill in new forms and get new photos etc then my advice would be to do this asap and take said forms/photos to whichever office they need to go to and see if there's any way you can sit and wait while they process it.

Good luck and I hope your daughter is home with you soon

Oldernotwiser

dmg24 wrote: »

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..

The OP isn't parking in the hospital car park, he's parking on the street.

"Its royal london hosp in whitechapel, so there is no official car park. its just a side street behind the hospital"

inspector_monkfish

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

The OP isn't parking in the hospital car park, he's parking on the street.

Yes, and the team that run those streets agree that it is fine.

Scarlett.1974

chris_n_tj wrote: »

I agree with the above, and remember if the OP is away from home and has an ill child then who in their right mind who begrudge them a parking space. I for one wouldnt.
I hope your Daughter is feeling a bit better today.
Chris n TJ xx

Quite.

I can only imagine how horrible it must be to have your 6 year old in hospital and comments such as some on here are about as welcome (and helpful) as a hole in the head to the OP.

Oldernotwiser

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

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 !!

If this is true, which I doubt, shouldn't you have had this confirmed before you actually used it in this way?

easy

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

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???

Look mate, you KNOW that the blue badge is provided for the use of the disabled person. Obviously, If you are driving to take your child into the hospital, you park using the blue badge. If you are collecting her from the hospital, you park using the blue badge.

But the people who are criticising on here, are suggesting that if you are leaving and returning to the hospital between times, then (according to the letter of the regulations), you shouldn't use the blue badge.

Certainly when I was hospitalised for 3 weeks, My husband visited me every day, and paid to park. This cost us nearly £20 in the first week, then he realised he could buy a weekly pass, which was (I think) £14 per week. It wouldn't have occurred to him to use my blue badge, as I wasn't in the car with him!

I'm sure lots of other people have done as you have been doing.

In your shoes, I would contact the hospital office and see if they have alternative parking fees for visitors/parents in your situation, who need long-term parking. That will then take the pressure off you, while you apply for the replacement parking badge.

Best wishes, by the way, for your little girl, I hope her treatment is going well.

chris_n_tj

The OP can park on the blinking roof as far as I am bothered.
An ill child in hospital in a strange city, I know what would come first on my list. As I said in my earlier post the OP has enough to think about without this on top.
If you really want to see missuse of blue badges just go into any supermarket carpark and watch. Then go and have a go at them, leave this poor family alone, havent they enough on their plate, show some compassion for crying out loud.
Chris n TJ

inspector_monkfish

Scarlett.1974 wrote: »

Goodness me, there's some judgemental people on this thread.

"Scum"? How polite.

OP, if you have to fill in new forms and get new photos etc then my advice would be to do this asap and take said forms/photos to whichever office they need to go to and see if there's any way you can sit and wait while they process it.

Good luck and I hope your daughter is home with you soon

thank-you for your kind words

its all a bit difficult, as we are not near home at the moment

dont worry, i'll let these have their moan up, then they can crawl back into their sad lonely holes at the end of the day