Blue Badges becoming useless?

saving-mad

I agree disabled spaces are few and far between however the automatic entitlement to a disabled badge has changed and its much harder to get one.

poppy12345

saving-mad wrote: »

I agree disabled spaces are few and far between however the automatic entitlement to a disabled badge has changed and its much harder to get one.

That's not true. Firstly it depends on the local council but the automatic criteria hasn't changed. It's the criteria for those that don't automatically qualify that's changed.

Enterprise_1701C

Round here there is plenty of disabled spaces, never see them totally full. Do however see disabled people taking up spaces in the parent and child spaces, meaning people with children have to unload their children with pushchairs sitting at the back of the car, not really very safe, but then disabled badge holders round here seem to think that their needs come over and above the needs of the next generation.

WillowCat

If all the disabled bays are full we will park in a parent and child space, and we display the blue badge. My OH cannot walk far, and even then is in intense pain. He needs the extra space to open the car door fully to get in and out.

If any parents are inconvenienced by this then they can easily take a space at the far end of the car park where hardly anyone parks.

sulphate

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Round here there is plenty of disabled spaces, never see them totally full. Do however see disabled people taking up spaces in the parent and child spaces, meaning people with children have to unload their children with pushchairs sitting at the back of the car, not really very safe, but then disabled badge holders round here seem to think that their needs come over and above the needs of the next generation.

Blue badge holders are well within their rights to park in parent and child spaces if there are no disabled spaces available.

I'm pregnant and it can be tricky for me to get my 2 year old out of the car in a normal space, but it's not impossible. If a blue badge holder is not able to find a disabled space, some of them would find it impossible to get out of the car/get their wheelchair out, a poster further up has already given an example of when they had to go home. That is why they get priority and rightly so.

tomtom256

WillowCat wrote: »

If all the disabled bays are full we will park in a parent and child space, and we display the blue badge. My OH cannot walk far, and even then is in intense pain. He needs the extra space to open the car door fully to get in and out.

If any parents are inconvenienced by this then they can easily take a space at the far end of the car park where hardly anyone parks.

And force their little kids to walk across an unsafe car park.

You could drop OH at the drop off point and find a space and then pick them up from there afterwards.

I am disabled and understand the issues, but wouldn't take up a parent & toddler bay as it then causes issues for those that they are designed for.

What if they have a child who is also disabled, do they park at the far end of the car park where hardly anyone parks as normal BB holders are in both the disabled bays and the parent bays?

Yes I also have a disabled child too.

Enterprise_1701C

WillowCat wrote: »

If all the disabled bays are full we will park in a parent and child space, and we display the blue badge. My OH cannot walk far, and even then is in intense pain. He needs the extra space to open the car door fully to get in and out.

If any parents are inconvenienced by this then they can easily take a space at the far end of the car park where hardly anyone parks.

As I said, we never see the disabled spaces full. This happens when there are still spare disabled spaces.

It is a little unfair to say the least, blue badge holders would be the first to shout if parents with small children in the car were to park in the disabled bays.

GlasweJen

If legislation allows blue badge holders to park on double yellow lines then I’m sure it would allow parking in “parent and toddler” bays which have no legal standing and are used by supermarkets purely as a selling point. If your child is also disabled then the child would have a blue badge and be able to use the blue badge spaces. And parents have always herded their children across busy car parks, parent bays are a relatively new phenomenon in relation to the inventions of the car and the supermarket.

mrcol1000

GlasweJen wrote: »

If legislation allows blue badge holders to park on double yellow lines then I’m sure it would allow parking in “parent and toddler” bays which have no legal standing and are used by supermarkets purely as a selling point. If your child is also disabled then the child would have a blue badge and be able to use the blue badge spaces. And parents have always herded their children across busy car parks, parent bays are a relatively new phenomenon in relation to the inventions of the car and the supermarket.

As we are constantly told on this website, if you get a ticket for parking in a disabled bay without a blue badge at a supermarket then you can just ignore it. I don't see how supermarkets could even enforce parents babys.

When I could still walk a bit, we used to park in parents parking bays as they were right next to the entrance. While the disabled bays went down the car park across from the entrance. So even the first disabled spaces were twice the distance from the entrance than the disabled.

I think if parents had to go through the struggle of genuinely being disabled then they would not be bothered about disabled people parking in parents bay and may actually get their precious kids to use the correct toilets instead of taking them in the disabled ones. I am not talking about babies, that is the fault of places ticking two boxes at once by lumping baby changing in disabled ones. I am talking about parents shielding their precious kids from the horrors of public toilets by letting them use disabled ones. This is great way to bring up kids as when they get to adults they think its alright to use disabled toilets and let the disabled person wait outside and wet themselves.

GlasweJen

mrcol1000 wrote: »

As we are constantly told on this website, if you get a ticket for parking in a disabled bay without a blue badge at a supermarket then you can just ignore it. I don't see how supermarkets could even enforce parents babys.

When I could still walk a bit, we used to park in parents parking bays as they were right next to the entrance. While the disabled bays went down the car park across from the entrance. So even the first disabled spaces were twice the distance from the entrance than the disabled.

I think if parents had to go through the struggle of genuinely being disabled then they would not be bothered about disabled people parking in parents bay and may actually get their precious kids to use the correct toilets instead of taking them in the disabled ones. I am not talking about babies, that is the fault of places ticking two boxes at once by lumping baby changing in disabled ones. I am talking about parents shielding their precious kids from the horrors of public toilets by letting them use disabled ones. This is great way to bring up kids as when they get to adults they think its alright to use disabled toilets and let the disabled person wait outside and wet themselves.

Don’t even get me started, I got an angry emoji reaction on Facebook for daring to suggest to a woman that she stands outside the gents while her 8 year old boy goes to the toilet as he presumably manages to go alone at school. She was ranting as the door to the disabled loo had a radar lock fitted and she was too embarrassed to ask for the key and she felt judged when she took him into the ladies!

Oh and she was writing to the shopping centre to complain about them installing the radar lock