Can disabled people park in parent and child spaces?

loskie

Under the rules of the disability discrimination act I don't think prosecution/civil enforcement of Blue badge using P&C would stand up in court if challenged.

OP your mum should have just rammed her trolley into this selfish biatches car when she returned with her shopping.


Stories like yours really boil my !!!!. society has become so !!!!in selfish.

Quentin

loskie wrote: »

Under the rules of the disability discrimination act I don't think prosecution/civil enforcement of Blue badge using P&C would stand up in court if challenged...

The private parking companies will happily take a disabled driver to court over any unpaid parking charge irrespective of how many blue badges they hold!

Iceweasel

Anyone can legally park in any space in any supermarket car park.

I frequently use the Parent and Child spaces even if my 48 year old daughter is not with me, as I need to have the door wide open in order to get out of the car without a struggle - due to my arthritis.

I don't use the disabled bays as I am not yet considered disabled enough to qualify for one under the current rules. That I don't mind as there are many people who really, really need them

I don't give a flying fig as to what other people say or think about me using P&C spaces.

I feel that if we must have P&C spaces they should be as far away from the entrance to the shops as possible.

happyc84

The woman who complained is in the wrong. The supermarkets have this wrong.

In my world:-

• The P&C spaces are at the far away end of the car park. Some exercise would do them good.

• Blue Badge spaces only for those with them, fine the half-wits who park there without one.

Or even better my friend who has a blue-badge says to the chancers, take my space - take my disability.

In reality, its up to the stores to manage the car park - so complain.

arcon5

facade wrote: »

The P&C spaces are there so that parents with no control over their offspring don't have to ignore the dents in the adjacent cars caused when all 4 doors are flung fully open.

That's a bit unfair.
You've clearly never had to load a child in to a car seat on a windy day in a stupidly tiny spot with a £20k car next to you.
Or probably have never even had kids, otherwise you'd understand even the best of parents will at some point have to manage a child whom is being far from obedient... especially at younger ages! ALL kids go through stages of good and bad.


One day you may have kids in which case I suspect you may see things a little differently.

arcon5

happyc84 wrote: »

The woman who complained is in the wrong. The supermarkets have this wrong.

In my world:-

• The P&C spaces are at the far away end of the car park. Some exercise would do them good.

• Blue Badge spaces only for those with them, fine the half-wits who park there without one.

Or even better my friend who has a blue-badge says to the chancers, take my space - take my disability.

In reality, its up to the stores to manage the car park - so complain.

What about disabled people who don't have blue badges for whatever reason..? Or what if you had an accident today that saw you on crutches or in a chair for a number of weeks..?
Or are they just "half-wits"?

This whole topic is !!!!!!.

If disabled spots are full, then it's fair play for a disabled person to park in a P&C spot for that extra space... if the P&C spots are free then parents like myself should go to a quiter area of the car park and walk in... if that's not possible then that's just unlucky, you win some you lose some, that's part of life.

Lmh71365

loskie wrote: »

P&C spaces in my mind should not be there. Just teaches the little brats to be selfish and self centred thinking that they have a right.


Why?

You try fitting a baby seat through the small gap created opening a door in a normal parking space? And then try and wiggle your torso at an angle more suited to a contortionist so you can put the seatbelt around their seat? Even better if the owner of the P-Reg 306 next to you has returned and is standing there very impatiently, just *hoping* your car door will gently bump their car.

AdrianC

arcon5 wrote: »

That's a bit unfair.
You've clearly never had to load a child in to a car seat on a windy day in a stupidly tiny spot with a £20k car next to you.
Or probably have never even had kids, otherwise you'd understand even the best of parents will at some point have to manage a child whom is being far from obedient... especially at younger ages! ALL kids go through stages of good and bad.

One day you may have kids in which case I suspect you may see things a little differently.

When I was growing up, both my parents worked full-time, there was no internet shopping, and supermarkets weren't open HALF as many hours as they are now.

Yet, strangely, my parents seemed to cope just fine without dragging my brother and I around the supermarket...

GwylimT

Lmh71365 wrote: »

You try fitting a baby seat through the small gap created opening a door in a normal parking space? And then try and wiggle your torso at an angle more suited to a contortionist so you can put the seatbelt around their seat? Even better if the owner of the P-Reg 306 next to you has returned and is standing there very impatiently, just *hoping* your car door will gently bump their car.

Ideally parents would take their child out of the seat, after all babies should only be in car seats for short periods of time, as the position reduces lung capacity.

Never used a special parking space, never had a problem getting any of our children in and out of their car seat.

facade

Lmh71365 wrote: »

if the owner of the P-Reg 306 next to you has returned and is standing there very impatiently, just *hoping* your car door will gently bump their car.

Actually, we are standing there horrified at the possibility of their door sawing into the paint, and wondering why on Earth they have chosen to park right next to us, on a virtually empty carpark, when we have made sure that when we left the car, there wasn't another one within 50 yards

In The Olden Days, cars were narrower, and people seemed able to put them in the centre of the space too......