Parking at Tesco.

nic_santorini

We have spaces allocated for families at our local multi-storey and I was very tempted to park in them because I had my mum and step dad in the car - that is my family and it does state 'family space'. I did not though. Decided to be a good girl as an ex blue badge holder.

System

FleurDuLys wrote: »

They have no legal force, but anyone parking on private land enters into a contract with the owner of that land based on what the owner expects of them. If the owner of the land has made it clear that certain bays are provided just for the holders of blue badges then those who do not hold badges should not get uppity if the owner of the land challenges them about it, or if genuine blue badge holders do. People parking on private land don't have "the right" to be there; they have accepted that they are using the land subject to the landowner's permission, and in accepting that they accept the owner's terms and conditions.

This has all been discussed before ad nauseum though, and it does not justify the action of the person in the OP's post.

And this gives an uppity old bag the right to smear lipstick over somebody's car?

It comes under the same heading as PCNs. You have to prove contract.

jonnypb

nic_santorini wrote: »

We have spaces allocated for families at our local multi-storey and I was very tempted to park in them because I had my mum and step dad in the car - that is my family and it does state 'family space'. I did not though. Decided to be a good girl as an ex blue badge holder.

I don't agree with the person writing graffiti on someone else's car

My local tesco has parent and child bays right next to the entrance and the disabled bays are on the next row just a few yards away.

It annoys me how so many people with blue badges park in the parent and child spaces when they have no kids yet there are plenty of disabled bays left but no parent and child places as they have taken them all.

Thankfully enough people have complained and from Monday tickets are going to be issued for misuse use of the spaces including both parent and child and disabled bays. Don't know if they can enforce fines but at least it might make people think twice

FleurDuLys

!!!!!! wrote: »

And this gives an uppity old bag the right to smear lipstick over somebody's car?

It comes under the same heading as PCNs. You have to prove contract.

Of course it doesn't give them the right. That is why I said that their action is not justified (see above!).

Ziggazee

I would be furious if someone did that to my car!!! Has anybody considered that maybe, just maybe, the driver was a Blue Badge holder but had forgotten to display her badge on this occasion? Let's face it, we all have moments of forgetfulness. What gives some nosy interfering member of the public the right to deface her car in that way!!

olias

CouponWoman wrote: »

Couldn't your wife have dropped you off in front of the supermarkets doors and then parked legally and morally in a normal space.

And when your wife was poorly couldn't you have done the same.

Couldn't a disabled persons wife/husband drop them at the door and then park in a normal space?????????????? (appreciate if the disabled person was single then this is not possible, but I would imagine that there are plenty who do have partners - indeed I know several personally where only 1 half of the couple is disabled, yet they still park in the bays)

You really couldn't have been that bad as you were OK to walk around a supermarket for an hour or so

:rotfl:What a ridiculous comment - you could equally say the same about any disabled person who is not in a wheelchair! In any case, on both occasions we were just popping in for a few items and were only in maybe 5 minutes.

and you could have stayed home and let your wife do the shopping and vice versa when she was poorly.

As could any disabled person who has a partner. And in any case we both would like to be able to browse and make our own decisions about what to buy rather than that of each other. On these occasions we were already out together in the car, and it's not much fun sat alone in a cold dark car in a dark remote corner of a car park!

Basically you did not have the right, morally or anything else to park in a disabled space. These are for certain disabled people with a permanent walking disability.

I spoke to an older man who had no legs and had driven himself to the supermarket and he could not shop as there was no disabled bays free, he needed one to set up his wheelchair and drag himself out of the drivers seat and into the wheelchair. He had to go home without his food. He told me he lived alone and did everything for himself but he said he frequently has to go home as selfish people kept parking in disabled bays.

So, no, you do not have any right to park in the disabled bays only people with blue badges do.

If your wife has a spinal condition she could apply for a blue badge, she doesn't necessarily need to receive Mobility allowance to do this.

If you had read my earlier post, you would see that she has applied, and been turned down, despite the fact that the LA sent her a lovely little plastic card saying that they would class her as registered disabled - just not disabled enough for a blue badge! And despite the fact that she is sometimes in terrible pain if she walks too far.

I hope that clears things up!

Olias

lucylucky

grumpyofwhitecross wrote: »

Today we parked in our local Tesco, in a disabled bay, and when we came out we noticed that the Mini next to us, also a disabled space, did not have a blue badge displayed. My wife got into the car and I started packing the shopping. She said " look at the mini " so I did , and a lady was writing on the windscreen with a lipstick... NO BLUE BADGE..

We talked to this lady , who said she had had to park much further away as there were no spare spaces, due to people like this..

All I can say is More Power to Her Lipstick and well done. :A :j

What a stupid biatch.

lucylucky

FleurDuLys wrote: »

Is there a reason you or your wife do not hold a blue badge, Olias?

Unfortunately you do not have the right to use blue badge bays, unless you hold a blue badge. Whether you consider yourself to have the right is irrelevant; the bays are not for your use.

Out of curiosity what makes you think that?

You are wrong as it happens (in regards to spaces on private land)

lucylucky

"Couldn't your wife have dropped you off in front of the supermarkets doors and then parked legally and morally in a normal space."

There is no illegality in parking in a "blue badge space" without a blue badge on private land

FleurDuLys

lucylucky wrote: »

Out of curiosity what makes you think that?

You are wrong as it happens (in regards to spaces on private land)

If the bays clearly have "For the use of Blue Badge holders only" on them, then it is a matter of contract law. By entering the private land and using the parking spaces you enter into a contract with the owner of that private land (see above), and you are therefore subject to whatever restrictions they wish to make.

It is a civil matter, but you do not have the right to park there as that is not what the owners intend.