Parking outside the house

PasturesNew

Chrishazle wrote: »

Under the circumstances, would the council consider a disabled bay outside your Mum's house, you get her a blue badge if she does not already have one - then you've got the shopkeeper by the short and curlies if he/she obstructs the marked bay!

On the balance of probabilities probably not, I think it costs over £10k to have a little man pop along with a pot of paint for a morning... because of all the red tape, meetings, paperwork etc.

Additionally, a blue badge bay doesn't belong to the person that requested it, so anybody with a badge could use it....

Warwick_Hunt

PasturesNew wrote: »

On the balance of probabilities probably not, I think it costs over £10k to have a little man pop along with a pot of paint for a morning... because of all the red tape, meetings, paperwork etc.

Additionally, a blue badge bay doesn't belong to the person that requested it, so anybody with a badge could use it....

Most of the bays carry no legal standing so anyone can use them.

sheslookinhot

Ask the shop keeper to show you evidence they have sole right to park in front of the shop.

sevenhills

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

My only worry would be - if the shopkeeper is feeling malicious, and you park there ... you may well come out one morning to find your car damaged, with no way of proving who did it

I used to park my van opposite a shop, it had a long scratch on it one morning, and it was either vandals or the shop keeper. Passing trade is very important to them.