Disabled parking bay markings outside home - where would it be?

only_mee

Do your council charge for the the space to be painted, ours does.

kingfisherblue

My friend wasn't charged for the space outside her home, nor for the paving that I mentioned in post 10. The work was carried out about four years ago, so things might have changed since then.

luxor4t

If there is a residents' parking bay close by, the council won't paint in a disabled bay - supposedly the bay is sufficient. Unfortunately, in action it means when my friend goes out, she frequently can't park anywhere near her house when she comes back - awkward in a wheelchair!

mk2_golfer

I know that this is an old post but I would just like to say that Ive just had an odd conversation with a lady from Blackpool Council, we want a disabled bay painted outside the house, not much to ask for as we see em all the time when driving round, nope, not allowed to have one, apparently ALL the disabled bays that are outside residential homes must have been painted by the residents and therefore are NONE ENVORCEABLE, is it me or does that just not sound right?? and the lady from the council is talking out of her bottom, oh well, 5 litres of white gloss paint it is then

pauliboo

They are non-enforceable anyway whether the council painted them on or not, it's just courtesy and decency that people don't abuse them.

oldboy64

wazza wrote: »

My house is the second from the end of terraced houses. There is a side road. The double yellow lines goes around the corner and stops in front of the end house. So when my neighbour parks in front of his house his car is partly in front of my house. In another words our cars are not parked in front of our houses but are offset. If i were to apply for a disabled parking bay will the markings be directly in front of my house which will prevent my neighbour from parking his car or will it be offset?

Since when was it a requirement to be able to 'park in front of my house'?

Nobody has that right if they don't have private parking facilities and have to use the public highway.

If your neighbour is parking outside your house, why don't you park in front of your other neighbour's house?

I'm sorry but people who think that they have a right to the 20+ feet of public highway outside their home really annoys me.
I'm disabled, in a chair and have private parking facilities for two cars. It wouldn't be the first time that I have come home to find a car in one of my spaces that belongs to a visitor of someone else.

I used to live in a small seaside village with very limited public parking facilities and on more that one occasion I have had drivers entering my driveway at the bottom to park their cars.

It's all part of life - give and take.

exarmydreamer

I have a disabled parking bay outside my house, it is actually smack bang within the boundary line of my house on the public highway. It is also in the middle of a section of Residential Parking Only space. Really annoys next door as the house on the right of mine is double fronted and has a larger permit parking space and the next door to the left has a smaller space because the disabled bay had to be within my boundary on the road. Next door on the left, who complain all the time actually are the only ones with off road parking, (double garage to rear) for 2 cars but don't use it??. I did ask the council space the bay out to take into account the neighbours but they said it had to be within our boundary. I was not charged for the markings.

It was put there by my council not by ourselves and is enforcable by the traffic wardens, who will ticket anyone parking there without a bluebadge. They also at the sametime ticket those with bluebadges who park in Permit Parking Only, as this is not allowed in our county and actually in most of my part of the country, (Wales). I live in the town centre, picked here due to disability but houses do not have off road parking, (don't think the Victorians had that planning in mind).

It is quite comical how many ignore the signs and park here in a residential parking only area, especially as there is a multi story car park 30 yards away with the whole of the ground floor open for parent and children and bluebadge holders. It's less of a walk into town from the car park and I live up an incline. There very fit some of these with bluebadges, striding up the hill with bags and pushchairs but who am I to judge.

I by the way can't walk far due to injury from the army but also have 3 disabled children who need to be engineered into the car, so I do see it from both sides. Like said, bit of give and take but I am moving now because of the parking.