Disabled spaces on private land

mttylad

What about temporarily disabled passengers?
Say someone who has a broken leg, it's in a cast & it's hard to get out of the car in a normal space.

Th BB scheme is only for permanent disabilities, however IMO someone with a temporary disablement should equally be able to use them.

matttye

mttylad wrote: »

What about temporarily disabled passengers?
Say someone who has a broken leg, it's in a cast & it's hard to get out of the car in a normal space.

Th BB scheme is only for permanent disabilities, however IMO someone with a temporary disablement should equally be able to use them.

They wouldn't be covered by the Equality Act unless their impairment was likely to last more than 12 months.

cheesemouse_2

The problem of disabled spaces in supermarkets etc is indeed a tricky one. I've been disabled with mobility issues for over two years now, but it's only in the last few months that I've plucked up courage to get a blue badge.

So.. before I had the badge, I couldn't (or didn't think I could - I wasn't aware of the equality act) park in disabled spaces at the supermarket, even though I walked with crutches (and more recently needed a wheelchair) - yet as soon as I got the blue badge, suddenly I could park in these spaces.

But my point is, I wasn't any less disabled on the day before I received my blue badge - my diagnosis was the same, the effect on my life was still the same. So the idea that "only people who have a blue badge need a disabled space" to me doesn't make much sense. I've needed those spaces for a long time, but only now can officially use them.

As for parent and child spaces.. of course these are just gimmicks and to compare the two is laughable. If parents need more room to get their kid out of the car, why don't they park at the other side of the car park, away from the store where there are plenty of empty spaces and room to get out of the car? They don't need to park right next to the entrance.

trisontana

cheesemouse wrote: »

If parents need more room to get their kid out of the car, why don't they park at the other side of the car park, away from the store where there are plenty of empty spaces and room to get out of the car? They don't need to park right next to the entrance.

This will also enable the children to walk and get a bit of exercise. There was a report on this morning's BBC Breakfast where a junior school found that their pupils were so unfit they couldn't walk very far before they became exhausted. This has been been corrected by a "walk a mile" lesson round the playing field .They are now much fitter.

Iceweasel

cheesemouse wrote: »

The problem of disabled spaces in supermarkets etc is indeed a tricky one. I've been disabled with mobility issues for over two years now, but it's only in the last few months that I've plucked up courage to get a blue badge.

So.. before I had the badge, I couldn't (or didn't think I could - I wasn't aware of the equality act) park in disabled spaces at the supermarket, even though I walked with crutches (and more recently needed a wheelchair) - yet as soon as I got the blue badge, suddenly I could park in these spaces.

But my point is, I wasn't any less disabled on the day before I received my blue badge - my diagnosis was the same, the effect on my life was still the same. So the idea that "only people who have a blue badge need a disabled space" to me doesn't make much sense. I've needed those spaces for a long time, but only now can officially use them.

As for parent and child spaces.. of course these are just gimmicks and to compare the two is laughable. If parents need more room to get their kid out of the car, why don't they park at the other side of the car park, away from the store where there are plenty of empty spaces and room to get out of the car? They don't need to park right next to the entrance.

Your situation prior to getting your Blue Badge is exactly what all these self-righteous people fail to understand.

Everything is not so black and white as many of them seem to think.

Some of them would be of the opinion that if you were to have used a 'disabled' space at a supermarket or shopping complex that you were somehow 'abusing the BB system - even though they are not valid in private car parks.

Ignorance is bliss - I truly hope that they never come to need the extra room or convenience.

aguynameddarryl

cheesemouse wrote: »

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As for parent and child spaces.. of course these are just gimmicks and to compare the two is laughable.

Of course, nobody is comparing the two, beyond the fact that it's a private car park, where the landowner has deemed (as is their right) that they wish to reserve some wider bays for the exclusive use of parents with young children.

But don't let that get in the way of some people deciding that they have the right to park wherever, regardless.

Which IS the actual point I'm making.

If the landowner isn't making sufficient accommodation to comply with the EA, why not make that point rather than arbitrarily deciding which rules you don't like and therefore don't follow?