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Coupon-mad

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Sadly I have seen this 'I have a blue badge and can park where I want' attitude, mainly from elderly people in supermarket car parks

Thought I did make it clear I was talking about supermarket car parks = private.

TrickyWicky

Do you know something Coupon? - I must be going completely blind. I can only apologise for my stupidity.

Coupon-mad

Merrry Christmas TrickyWicky and I am sorry I shouted...embarrassed now!

TrickyWicky

No, don't be embarassed, imagine how I feel - right there in your first sentence and I've still missed it lol.

Merry Christmas to you to Coupon-mad!

treeboa

while there are two types of disabled you will always have arguements, you dont need to be on dla low or high rate mobility to get a blue badge, you just have to satisfy a criteria, a high rate mobility award gives you automatic right to the blue badge as it does disabled road tax, which to me proves more than the blue badge that the vehicle has a right of place in a disabled bay, ive seen more than a few `pay to park` carparks were the rules say the blue badge gives you the right to park in a disabled bay, however unless its backed up by the disabled tax disc then you still pay the parking fee

robredz

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Tricky Wicky you are replying in 'Council CEO mode'. I was talking about private car parks and no, they CANNOT lawfully restrict their disabled bays to Blue Badge holders only (even though 90% of supermarket signs say exactly that!).

On private land, disabled bays are provided as a reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act 2010 - an Act which clearly gives the definition of disability.

It is effectively defined as a long term ongoing disability which adversely affects everyday life, and the person is covered by that law from the very moment of diagnosis. So someone who has just been diagnosed with ME or cancer etc. CAN stop off at the supermaket and park in one of their 'disabled bays' if they need it. Never mind a Blue Badge, never mind the fake PCN they might attract, never mind the glares from some sections of the elderly disabled population.

I also think I have read an adjudication where a disabled passenger sat in the car while the able bodied person shopped and it was seen by the Council (rightly) as abuse of a disabled bay. As you know, to use a Blue Badge the purpose of the outing has to be for the disabled person and if the driver stops in a disabled bay to grab a bit of shopping for themself - and they choose that bay just because they can, because they have their disabled Mum with them - that is abuse.

Agreed Coupon-mad, the disabled person MUST not be in the parked vehicle, but an able bodied person can sit whilst waiting for the badge holder to carry out their business.

As to requiring a BB on private land, you don't for the reasons described above. I know because i have been there, and am holding the threat of a claim for Direct Discrimination over a managing agent for the actions of an employee who KNEW I am disabled but chose to act like Mobilise (remember them? and their new incarnation in bed with PPCs) and issue threats and venom that i was BREAKING THE LAW by parking without a BB on private land. They had to back down as they knew they would lose in any litigation.

With regard to OP I think it was OP who was the driver, so if they hadn't allowed their Mickey Mouse appeal, any threatOgrams to father would constitute harassment and he could have reported/sued the ppc imho