Blue badge,exempts you from hose pipe ban....

shegar

I heard on the radio this morning that if you hold a blue badge then you are exempt from the hose pipe ban that will be introduced on April 5 this year.........I can fore see there being problems with that rule, people will be reporting each other for using hoses etc, water company says that its for people who want to water their gardens and are unable to carry buckets of water because of disability,what do you all think..?

moose1982

Didn't know that, but found it on the Thames Water page here, not sure about other suppliers.

melbury

Why should blue badge holders be exempt? I don't understand the reasoning behind this.

Richie-from-the-Boro

news to me too WATER INDUSTRY ACT 1991, big read here.

- one note, it specifically says Blue Badge issued by their local authority
- I'm not sure how that's interpreted by law

newbutold

melbury wrote: »

Why should blue badge holders be exempt? I don't understand the reasoning behind this.

I am guessing that they are exempt because if they have a disability they may not to be able to water their garden etc using a watering can/bucket as easy (or at all) as someone that doesn't have a disability.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Age 65 may apply to a couple of areas, does it ?. That's news to me other than Thames.

Of course if you connected your hosepipe to your tap, layered it out to the end of your garden, and filled up your watering can with your hose at the end of your garden

- your hosepipe is no longer functioning as a hosepipe
- it can't be called a hosepipe
- it's a flexible extension of your plumbing

forgotmyname

Just stick the hose down your trouser leg (The Great Escape) and have a wander around the garden.

If anyone asks, Just say incontinence...

samdd

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

news to me too WATER INDUSTRY ACT 1991, big read here.

- one note, it specifically says Blue Badge issued by their local authority
- I'm not sure how that's interpreted by law

Wouldn't it be the local authority for the area where the person lives.

shegar

melbury wrote: »

Why should blue badge holders be exempt? I don't understand the reasoning behind this.

I have explained the reason on my first post as to why blue badge holders are exempt.........

dibuzz

It's simple really, just rent out your old granny or blue badge holding relative to water the neighbours' gardens!

Brassedoff

bullbar wrote: »

Do you have to put the Blue Badge in the front window so that anybody passing by would know that what you are doing is entirely legal or would you need to keep it on your person for it to be inspected?

But if I do that would I have to use my clock showing what time I started watering my garden too?

On a separate note, wait until the Dailysnail gets to hear about this! Too sick to work, well enough to be gardeners!