Blue Badge scheme to be extended - MSE News

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neilmcl wrote: »

Trust me the last thing you want as a driver is a load of people on mobility scooters running up and down in the main car park, I'm more than happy for them to have places at the entrance.

Whatever you do, don't go to Ellesmere Port. There seem to be more mobility scooters driving around than able bodied people walking. You take your life in your hands in the shopping areas. The mobility scooter road rage is something to behold

jk0

What next? A blue badge if you have PMT?

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jk0 wrote: »

What next? A blue badge if you have PMT?

It's already covered under mental health.

My ingrown toenail should cover me for the considerable difficulty in walking.

Holz1995

I have ADHD (bad kick offs) depression (people can be suicideal) anxiety (where your anxious in places and can be danger as have to go half way accross car park to get back car it's classed as fleeing) I also have dyspraxia (it's a learning disability yes but it means I'm a danger to myself) I'm a danger to myself most of time and have to have carer with me itlf carer can't it means I have to stay in I won't allow others do my shopping as I'm fussy and have to be there x

Holz1995

This will benefit me greatly x

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Luckily, someone more qualified than the readership of MSE gets to decide who qualifies- which is how it should be.


No reason to complain as we can't use the spaces anyway. I suppose they might provide more spaces, but as I always park miles from the entrance, in the vain hope that some idiot won't park 5cm from my car despite there being a 20 space gap on either side of it, that won't bother me either.

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fred246 wrote: »

I used to take my disabled parents shopping at a very large retail park. We would park outside in a disabled spot and get them into their scooters. They could go miles on their scooters so they didn't really need to park outside the entrance. Anyone that couldn't walk to the door would never be able to walk round the massive shops. Free toll crossings for disabled people? Why on earth? Abled bodied could swim across pushing their cars? I think it all needs a major rethink.

What's this got to do with the thread? - The Blue Badge isn't even valid on private property, which is normally the case for retail parks

PasturesNew

I'm on the spectrum.... and I'd not wish to "be looked at" when parking in such a space. I like to find parking spaces miles away, where I can park unhindered ... it has to be an end spot too. Love the end spots....

That's all I ask for ... an end spot, doesn't matter where.

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Car_54 wrote: »

I'm struggling to understand why someone with autism would need to park nearer the shops.

my niece and cousin has autism, My cousin didn't LEARN walking until he was 10yrs old, when he started he had a frame, when he learned to run he was a complete danger to himself and others going after him, Local council wouldn't issue a Blue badge because he didn't fall under their rules, Untill the equality act started to be used against them, and even then my aunt had to go to a panel in the council and fight for one.


My niece has no concept of danger, she throws herself to floor in frustration and anger and headbutts the concrete, nearby cars, pulls and tugs, she also refuses to walk anywhere, somedays she will happily walk for a few hundred yards, other days she will cling to your neck and it seems as though she has forgotten to how to walk.


Don't know what image and perception of Autism you think you had, but you really should read up on it, it will surprise you how debilitating it can be, Especially autisms version Locked in Syndrome, then youll see why autism should be a criteria to issues a blue badge.

haras_nosirrah

This is the problem with autism - it is a spectrum disorder and some people are high functioning and therefore would not need a blue badge, others are very very very disabled by it and would. Everyone knows someone with autism who is fine and just has a major interest in something. Those of us who know someone who has real debilitating autism to the point where they are unable to live independently ever know that a blue badge could mean a world of difference for their carers and the autistic persons ability to do things we take for granted