disabled and parents parking

Jomo

lucylucky wrote: »

Personally I doubt that.

Why doubt it when it is obvious!!! :rotfl:

lucylucky

Jomo wrote: »

Why doubt it when it is obvious!!! :rotfl:

Because it isn't - obviously

jblack_2

unholyangel wrote: »

Well there are many reasons they may use a parent and child spot rather than disabled, As already said, maybe they forgot their blue badge, maybe they dont have one yet

It has been mentioned several times that there is no need for a blue badge to use the disabled space.

unholyangel wrote: »

maybe its someone else who has the car so isnt entitled to use it

So it'd be an able bodied person? Why do they need more space?

unholyangel wrote: »

maybe they dont like people staring at them to see if they have a genuine disability or whether they're one of the tosspots who just pretend to have one in order to get a free ride.

But their quite happy for people to stare at them to see if they have genuine children?

unholyangel wrote: »

Maybe they can get in and out the car ok and were leaving the disabled spaces for those more in need.

Then why park in a P&C space? Why not leave that space for those more in need?

unholyangel wrote: »

But, at the end of the day, blue badge holders can park in any space. Just because they have a blue badge does not mean they can only park in disabled bays.

Having a blue badge seems to give the owner the right to park where ever they please. If their specially assigned spaces are free then why can't they use them? If they decide to use the P&C space instead then I'd think they were the ignorant one.

Blue badges are too easy to get and when some people have them they believe it makes them better than others.

trisontana

All this talk of blue badges in supermarket car-parks is irrelevant. As has been mentioned before, the Blue-Badge Scheme does not apply to private car-parks.

jblack_2

So to sum up, anyone can park anywhere in any private car park?

trisontana

jblack wrote: »

So to sum up, anyone can park anywhere in any private car park?

Yes. This is private land and all those road markings, including double-yellow lines and white hatchings don't mean a thing. And a private citizen (i.e the car park owner or parking company) cannot penalize another private citizen (the motorist) for breaking their "rules". English law doesn't work that way.

Jomo

lucylucky wrote: »

Because it isn't - obviously

So taking out P&C spaces and adding the extra space to 'standard' spaces isn't making them wider?

Hmmm I really can't work that one out! :cool:

lucylucky

Jomo wrote: »

So taking out P&C spaces and adding the extra space to 'standard' spaces isn't making them wider?

Hmmm I really can't work that one out! :cool:

No, the current P&C spaces could be divided in half resulting in more "ordinary" spaces. None would be wider than currently.

Easy.

Happy to help.

Jomo

jblack wrote: »

So to sum up, anyone can park anywhere in any private car park?

You got it!

They can try to fine you but it isn't enforceable.

Although I always show courtesy to all Disabled spaces regardless.

sazziecee

I stopped using P&C spaces once my boys were old enough to walk on their own and do what they were told. Basically when they stopped being "toddlers". I don't see why parents of children over 5 years old would need to use them (or even 4)
But when they were small I appreciated them and used them, not just because the spaces were wider (although I admit I am a rubbish parker, and was before I had them too, lol) but because when my youngest was tiny and in an infant carrier, my eldest was 21 months old and as soon as I let him out of the car he would leg it! and the fact that the path by the P&C led straight to the store and we could avoid the main road was great. I don't class this as me not being able to control him, more that children of that age don't listen lol
At the time I would say that the disabled spaces were equal in number to the parent and child spaces and thinking back I probably did used to get miffed if the disabled person took the last parent and child space (as I have never parked in a disabled space) but it wouldn't spoil my day enough for me to abandon my shopping trip, I would just have to find somewhere else, but as I am a rubbish parker I have to have a space where I can "go right through" as the idea of reversing out of a space fills me with dread as people seem to race along car park roads
I appreciate that for the disabled person however, it would be a case of having to turn around and go home, as they would either not be able to get out of the car or struggle in some other way. My late sister was in a wheelchair and my mum wasn't allowed to use the disabled spaces near the hospital entrance as they were for disabled DRIVERS only and I know she struggled finding a space big enough to get the electric wheelchair in and out of the car.