Charged £20 to renew Blue Disabled Parking Badge

STOCKWIRE

Hastobe_Katt wrote: »

Same where I live. No free parking any more. Now if they would just make the bays a little wider and police the use of them more...

Our local Aldi store has BB 5 bays. When I went to the store last week all five were occupied; three by cars not displaying badges, one by a car whose driver had left his disabled passenger in the car while he nipped into the store; the last one legitimately. I was very tempted to park my car behind the three illegally parked cars while I went to do my weeks shopping. That would have stopped them just 'nipping in for a few secs'. :cool:

Your mistake

3 + 1 = 4 !!

jetta_wales

STOCKWIRE wrote: »

Your mistake

3 + 1 = 4 !!

Lol, nope your mistake "the last one legitimately" being the 5th.

Was a petty childish post but the fact that you were wrong anyway just makes it amusing

STOCKWIRE

jetta_wales wrote: »

Lol, nope your mistake "the last one legitimately" being the 5th.

Was a petty childish post but the fact that you were wrong anyway just makes it amusing

Sorry I forgot, The misuse of a mobility car and no doubt the blue badge is ok in your eyes. Not long before the partner parks in a disabled bay on his way to work to pick up a paper !

bifold

jetta_wales wrote: »

Another reason to put the pictures on the front then unfortunately, and to make them far harder to forge or alter (swapping pictures or changing dates etc). Which inevitably will cost them more but I don't think £20 a year is excessive tbh.

I agree £20 a year is not excessive,but its my right not to have a photo of any sort on my blue badge.

Alter_ego

bifold wrote: »

I agree £20 a year is not excessive,but its my right not to have a photo of any sort on my blue badge.

Is that one of your uman rights?

starchild1972

Alter_ego wrote: »

Not only in Paington, anywhere in England, don't know about north of the border.

You can still be towed with or without blue badge if parked on yellows in a dangerous place. Seen it done in Exeter.
Seen people fined too.

jetta_wales

STOCKWIRE wrote: »

Sorry I forgot, The misuse of a mobility car and no doubt the blue badge is ok in your eyes. Not long before the partner parks in a disabled bay on his way to work to pick up a paper !

Taking childishness even further now I see :T well done you.

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jetta_wales

bifold wrote: »

I agree £20 a year is not excessive,but its my right not to have a photo of any sort on my blue badge.

Maybe but it is more importantly, our right to have use of disabled parking bays and unfortunately it might be that you have to sacrifice a little dignity/privacy in return for that due to abuse of the system.

Brassedoff

bifold wrote: »

I agree £20 a year is not excessive,but its my right not to have a photo of any sort on my blue badge.

My last first badge was £20 and renewal £12. I have had my photo on both.

If you are not happy to have your photo on it to ensure misuse by others stops, then don't bother applying. You either go with the system, or you don't. If you don't want it, don't apply, park with everyone else in carparks etc.

How many people moan (including me) that badges are misused or given out to people who can walk perfectly well (another issue I know) on here. When a solution that proves the holder must be with the vehicle, and people moan about having their photo on it. As I said. Do not apply to have one, walk like everyone else.

Richie-from-the-Boro

bifold wrote: »

I agree £20 a year is not excessive,but its my right not to have a photo of any sort on my blue badge.

You have said this reference photo's before, you can't really select from a menu which good bits you like and which bits you [ a minuscule minority ] don't want.

The new BB Proposals due later this year will allow traffic wardens and parking attendants the power to confiscate badges. Bobbies have had this power since 2006.

People in this group who say "" what about someone that is doing the shopping for the badge holder, who is at home "" the law is clear if the person who the badge is registered to is not in the vehicle, then the badge should not be being used.

Putting the photograph on the ' new rules ' badge therefore means that the police and later this year traffic wardens can instantly and without any need for extra checks or resource's prove the BB is being misused and confiscate it on the spot. Additionally the new BB will have a central dBASE, a bit like the centralised DVLA and insurance dBASE any police of traffic warden will only need to make one quick phone contact instead of for example in London having to telephone the blue badge department of all 32 London boroughs.

The BB is then returned to the issuing authority with details of why it was removed, it remains to be seen whether all rather than the current some will adopt the three strikes” basis before permanently confiscating the badge. Personally I'm against the three strikes rule, I think confiscation should be instant except for specified ' certain ' types ' of illness.

The following 3 strike safeguards were proposed:

a) That the badge holder be given the benefit of doubt
b) That badge holders and any carers receive written notification of cancellation
c) That a simple and robust means of appeal be introduced.
d) That the “three strikes rule” be retained