Refused Blue Badge- help

Richie-from-the-Boro

I said in #32 that the DfT wanted the GP's removed as the ' qualifier ' for blue badge issue [ers ]

The Blue Badge Reform Programme here - The FAQ's on Impact Assessment & Equalities here

what dot gov will do :

- a common online applications and registration system will be introduced removing the need and cost for a local blue badge register
- this will transfer between £6.5 to £20 million per year. of the NHS [ GP's eligibility assessments ] costs on to the national common BB scheme
- making it easier to check details and the validity of badges issued in different areas.
- most ??% are historical reissued [ no change in circumstance ] badges
- local registers will be replaced by a national register
- local criteria will be replaced by a national crieria [ see below for London ]
- a new national standard electronic version with anti-copy and anti-fraud technologies will be issued
- have a common but not national [ see below ] BB fee

And now the confusion what dot gov will not .. .. .. do :

- everything points to a national register but the dot gov say they will not :

- increase or decrease the time that BB holders can park on yellow lines [ currently 3 hours ] or changing it so that badge holders, for example, could not park on double-yellow lines;
- extend the scheme so that it includes off-street parking or includes the four local authorities covered by the ‘London Concession’. No changes are being made to the concession itself
- extend eligibility, for example, to those with / cognitive / behavioural / colitis / Crohn's / or similar conditions / temporary disability of less than one year
- amend primary legislation [ local ism agenda ] to make it mandatory for all local authorities to charge the same fee
- charge the fee on application / for / rather than on issue of a badge
- introduce a centrally administered scheme

SingleSue

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that is a spot on comment ive said it on here more times than i can remember wider accessible spaces for wheelchairs and normal closer space for the deppessed /agraphobic crowd and the bad back that comes and goes normaly plays up when a medical is due , and the bipolar crowd who are quiet ok the walk arond town all day shopping untill there form arrives on the door step then they have a melt down......there are hundreds of blue badges that should not be issued and dont start me on the adhd bb for kids

Erm, I need a wider, closer space and I am not a wheelchair user, I use crutches full time...normal size space and I can't get in or out of the car!
My dad needs a wider space and he also does not use a wheelchair (although he should!).

Oh how I wish I could go back to the days of slinking down between cars parked close together and slinking my way into the seat...begger this body!

Not that I have applied for a blue badge yet though.....

birkee

[QUOTE=SingleSue;42898542]Erm, I need a wider, closer space and I am not a wheelchair user, I use crutches full time...normal size space and I can't get in or out of the car!
My dad needs a wider space and he also does not use a wheelchair (although he should!).

Oh how I wish I could go back to the days of slinking down between cars parked close together and slinking my way into the seat...begger this body!

Not that I have applied for a blue badge yet though.....[/QUOTE]

Why not?

Not that you'll necessarily get a disabled parking space, with all the fakers, and people who just don't give a a damn.

I was in the supermarket early the other morning, to miss the crowd so I could cope. (wheelchair) The first 6 or 7 vehicles nearest the store in the disabled bays had no BB displayed.

pwales_2

us in wheelchairs are getting the messyend of the stick because of fakers/ dodgers/ lazy/ and icociderate
ask your self do you really NEED that space#

wheater in the case of law you can be entitled after many attempts and tribunals i.e getting one because of a loophole in law

daska

Actually it's quite a few people getting the 'messy end of the stick', not just wheelchair users. What about the carparks where all the disabled spaces are only available for use by people with disabled tax discs? What about the town councils which have systematically restricted every available double yellow to 'no loading' aka 'no blue badges'? What about the incursion of buildings and pedestrian only zones at the expense of car-parks and on-street parking? In my (small) town this has claimed about 70 spaces (including 20 disabled spaces) in the last year.

pwales_2

im just really bitter about this you can read my previos posts on it, one of the last post is whwere i fell trying ti get in my chair in a normak space when there was people using wide space with noo obvios problems ie walking fine carrying loads of bags bending to load boot easy.
anyway result is is fell as a direct result oof not getting a wide space.
hurt my rebuild spine when i fell.........now found out i did alot of damage now cannot hold on to urine so im alot worse than i was...

but still able bodied or people who have badges from legal loop holes make me sick!

and to all the posters who took th emick when i fell and made the comments about how they should get b/b because they are depressed and to scared to crosss th e car park,
rethink your micky taking as now instead of intemitent cathing i will prob have a to a bag!
rant over you worms who took the mick no who you are
edit forgot to say im a para

Richie-from-the-Boro

Most real arthritic's without either sticks or a wheelchair need a wide parking space, and preferably an extra large wide opening car door and a flat cabin floor [ no door wells ], and a MPV type floor height vehicle.

.. .. .. there are many different types of genuinely disabled people.

The Fiat Multipla is a high, flat floor, large very wide opening door type vehicle.

jetta_wales

I don't need a wide space but I do need one close to the store or exit of the car park as car parks are not nice or safe places to be when you can't see. People wouldn't like getting their cars scratched by me not knowing how far away from them I am when trying to traverse between them in narrow rows. Wing mirrors are not friendly to me either :-)

There are a lot of very different reasons for people to need disabled parking space, some need the width but the distance matters less, some need the short distance but not the width. I agree that some reasons are a little tenuous though.

SingleSue

birkee wrote: »

[QUOTE=SingleSue;42898542]Erm, I need a wider, closer space and I am not a wheelchair user, I use crutches full time...normal size space and I can't get in or out of the car!
My dad needs a wider space and he also does not use a wheelchair (although he should!).

Oh how I wish I could go back to the days of slinking down between cars parked close together and slinking my way into the seat...begger this body!

Not that I have applied for a blue badge yet though.....

Why not?

Not that you'll necessarily get a disabled parking space, with all the fakers, and people who just don't give a a damn.

I was in the supermarket early the other morning, to miss the crowd so I could cope. (wheelchair) The first 6 or 7 vehicles nearest the store in the disabled bays had no BB displayed.[/QUOTE]

Because I am not quite at acceptance stage yet....I keep hoping I will wake up one morning and be back to normal.

birkee

SingleSue wrote: »

Why not?

Not that you'll necessarily get a disabled parking space, with all the fakers, and people who just don't give a a damn.

I was in the supermarket early the other morning, to miss the crowd so I could cope. (wheelchair) The first 6 or 7 vehicles nearest the store in the disabled bays had no BB displayed.

Because I am not quite at acceptance stage yet....I keep hoping I will wake up one morning and be back to normal.[/QUOTE]

Sorry to hear that, but you do yourself no favours.
You have a bad leg. you walk with a limp. The bodies way of coping with an injury.
Avoid walking with the limp, and you may do more harm.

It's not a case of 'giving in to it', it's a case of managing it in the best way possible.

(I guess you took my last post as criticism when I said 'why not?'. It really wasn't. It was a genuine 'why not?'. My manner tends to be a little brusque though. Sorry!)