Parking in mother and child space

Richie-from-the-Boro

leveller2911 wrote: »

Supermarkets are part of Society.Lets be clear about this, its your opinion that its a "Marketing ploy" you have absolutely no factual proof.

Personally I don't have any problems with BB holders or Mother and Babies getting designated parking spaces but if a disabled driver does park in a M&B space then they shouldn't whinge when mothers with babies park in their spaces.

What sort of signal does that send out? .Being disabled doesn't mean you they don't have to have good manners or be considerate to others. Threat others as you wish to be treated...

It means the disabled have a need, and the parent has a want / wish / preference / longing. Who can blame them if they take up the offer, I don't .. .. but they are not to be compared to a BB holder / disabled need.

I too have no problem with any PP area making available 500 P&C places,and encourage those BB holders if they are in need to occupy them without compunction [the O/P's question] if there are no BB spaces available, the BB holder needs the wide space and location the parent does not need it at all, they just prefer it.

bigbulldog

leveller2911 wrote: »

Personally I don't have any problems with BB holders or Mother and Babies getting designated parking spaces but if a disabled driver does park in a M&B space then they shouldn't whinge when mothers with babies park in their spaces.

Hang on as I think there's a choice whether you have children or not,but with a disability there's no choice is there you cant put it in a buggy or carry it and you have it for life.

pogofish

traceya89 wrote: »

does anyone know if you can park in a mother and child space with a disabled badge if there are no disabled spaces available?

If you have this choice of spaces in a car park, then you are almost certainly in a private car park.

So the Blue Badge Scheme does not apply here (go check your handbook/issuers website) and the spaces are only a courtesy, whilst Parent and Child parking has absolutely no legal meaning whatsoever.

Its the Equality Act that applies here and yes, that would require the store to allow any person considered disabled under the act, Blue Badge holder or not, to use any space (or spaces) suitable for them as a reasonable adjustment.

luminated

It would be interesting if any of us using BB's were to ask the next time we went to one of these bigger stores? But doubt it will be me as very very rarely go to them.

mildred1978

emg wrote: »

I'm surprised that anyone would have issues with a parent and child parking space being used by someone with a disability.

At my local retail park there are 8 parent and child spaces and at least 30 disabled spaces (not reflecting the local demographic by a long long way). Disabled people frequently park in the parent and child spaces (along with people who leave someone in the car - why?)) despite there being at least a dozen free disabled spaces. There aren't many end spaces because people frequently park on the grass alongside them, effectively boxing you in.

I have pointed out to a couple that their parking has made things difficult for others, but they don't care. On the rare occasion that I've parked in one of the disabled spaces I've felt very uncomfortable. Why the disabled drivers parking further away in the parent and child spaces don't feel the same way is beyond me.

Whatever happened to courtesy?

mildred1978

bigbulldog wrote: »

Hang on as I think there's a choice whether you have children or not,but with a disability there's no choice is there you cant put it in a buggy or carry it and you have it for life.

Is it a competition? Both groups legitimately need wider spaces.

mildred1978

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

I too have no problem with any PP area making available 500 P&C places,and encourage those BB holders if they are in need to occupy them without compunction [the O/P's question] if there are no BB spaces available, the BB holder needs the wide space and location the parent does not need it at all, they just prefer it.

I'd love to know how you think I should get my 2 year old out of a 4 inch gap in the door!

Lum

mildred1978 wrote: »

I have pointed out to a couple that their parking has made things difficult for others, but they don't care. On the rare occasion that I've parked in one of the disabled spaces I've felt very uncomfortable. Why the disabled drivers parking further away in the parent and child spaces don't feel the same way is beyond me.

Perhaps when they got there, all the disabled spaces were full? As you say, why would someone park further away than they needed to?

bigbulldog

mildred1978 wrote: »

Is it a competition? Both groups legitimately need wider spaces.

Utter rubbish I'm afraid.

mildred1978

Lum wrote: »

Perhaps when they got there, all the disabled spaces were full? As you say, why would someone park further away than they needed to?

One the first occasion they were in front of me going into the car park. You go past the parent and child spaces first and they ducked into the only vacant one. There were easily 15 or so disabled spaces free at the time.


The 2nd time it was a van driver with a van full of carpets but no BB or child who parked there. He reversed in, I asked him (through my open window) if he'd forgotten his baby. Red faced he drove out to find a normal space.

3rd time it was someone with a broken leg and his partner. Again no child. I asked if they realised they could park in the vacant disabled space 30ft away and they just grunted and went off to the shops (trackie bottoms half way down their @rses _pale_).

A local hotel I frequent has a similar issue, but it's middle aged blokes in their jags that confuse their golf clubs for children.

I don't just have a go if they're already parked there!