What is the legal position regarding disabled parking bays ?

pmlindyloo

Perhaps we ought to follow the French idea where they have a notice saying - Take my space - take my disability (obviously in French!)

Might make people think a bit more.

I've also read somewhere that one major supermarket reads out the car number plates over the tannoy of those 'abusing' their usage and asks them to move the car to another space.

I have complete understanding where someone may not have a blue badge but are still disabled but, in my humble opinion, it is mostly abused by those who are too blooming lazy to walk the extra metres.

pigpen

Oooh... does this mean when we go shopping without my blue badged daughter (she has cerebral palsy) we can park in a disabled bay if there are no parent spaces? given I am hobbling about on crutches and unable to walk far at the moment and trying to find a parent and child bay is impossible and the car doesn't fit in most spaces.. we got moaned at for not parking in one of the 4 occupied P&C spaces in a local shopping centre because we took up 2 normal spaces and over hung the 'road' bit. We probably wouldn't park in one.. but it is nice to know the option is there.

We have never parked in a disabled bay even with the badge.. but I did seriously consider it when we went to Tesco last week especially when OH had to drive round to pick me up because I couldn't walk a step further.

geoffky

Pigpen the answer is yes...But if it has parking company scammers you might get a stupid invoice which i am sure you can do without the hassle unless you are like me and like to bait them...

Padstow

Acc72 wrote: »

Hi All,

At my local DW Gym, the disabled parking bays are often occupied by vehicles without a disabled badge.

If I raise this with a member of staff, it is usually met with a disinterested grunt (followed by no action) or even a "well people can park wherever they want to innit" response.

I want to write to the company to ask them to confirm their policy, but before I do I want to clarify the actual legal position.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Is your post because your disabled spot has been taken or because you watch out for others?

Spendless

pigpen wrote: »

Oooh... does this mean when we go shopping without my blue badged daughter (she has cerebral palsy) we can park in a disabled bay if there are no parent spaces?

I did the exact opposite for the first time ever the other week. Something I swore I'd never do as it used to irritate me no end when my kids were little and someone without young kids used them, All the blue badge bays taken and my 89yo grandmother with me who has dementia, limited mobility and hard of hearing, the chances of her being able to hear me, understand and move quickly enough to get out of the way if she strayed into the path of a car were very limited. I checked every car in the disabled bays on the path down to the supermarket,half of them were not displaying a blue badge.

phill99

ilikewatch wrote: »

we have one customer who has had one leg fully amputated

You can't have it partially amputated. The surgeon doesn't say "i'm only going to cut half way through this one as this one is being partly amputated"

Tiddlywinks

phill99 wrote: »

You can't have it partially amputated. The surgeon doesn't say "i'm only going to cut half way through this one as this one is being partly amputated"

For goodness sake... how low can you stoop to try to 'point score'...

I think most of us knew what the poster meant... not really a subject for humour or debate.

Emmylou_2

Spendless wrote: »

I did the exact opposite for the first time ever the other week. Something I swore I'd never do as it used to irritate me no end when my kids were little and someone without young kids used them, All the blue badge bays taken and my 89yo grandmother with me who has dementia, limited mobility and hard of hearing, the chances of her being able to hear me, understand and move quickly enough to get out of the way if she strayed into the path of a car were very limited. I checked every car in the disabled bays on the path down to the supermarket,half of them were not displaying a blue badge.

Before my Aunt got a blue badge, when she and my Uncle were taking my Grandma shopping (aunt would use Gran's wheelchair to lean on!), and there were no disabled spaces, they would park in the Parent & Child spaces. My Aunt is still my Grandmother's child...just that one was in her 70s and the other her 90s...

pigpen

Emmylou wrote: »

Before my Aunt got a blue badge, when she and my Uncle were taking my Grandma shopping (aunt would use Gran's wheelchair to lean on!), and there were no disabled spaces, they would park in the Parent & Child spaces. My Aunt is still my Grandmother's child...just that one was in her 70s and the other her 90s...

and the notices state having 'a child under 5' with you.. not a child under 75

Not that they are legally enforceable either unfortunately.

Emmylou_2

Not in the supermarket they used...it just said "parent and child parking" (it wasn't one of the "Big 4" chains)