Blue Badge parking charges

mobileron

Each public car park must have a percentage of disabled spaces dont know what the number is,my local station has 30 spaces and only one person uses it.

Albermarle

mobileron said:

Each public car park must have a percentage of disabled spaces dont know what the number is,my local station has 30 spaces and only one person uses it.

I think it is around 6% but it varies with smaller car parks having a higher % and bigger ones a bit lower.
I find in wide open large open car parks there is a lot less people parking in disabled spots without blue badges. 
This is not the case in busier car parks , like Supermarkets, just so people can park nearer the entrance.

Fruitcake

There is no legal requirement for a private landowner to provide accessible parking spaces at all. In some cases it would be impractical or even impossible to provide accessible spaces.

The British Standards Institute (BSI) makes the following recommendations, but they are not mandatory.

"Commercial premises should have one space for every employee who is a disabled motorist plus 5% of the total capacity for visitor parking should be designated as disabled parking, with a further 4% of the total visitors parking consisting of enlarged standard spaces."

However, landowners must make reasonable adjustments for disabled motorists with protected characteristics in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.
Reasonable adjustments must also be made for certain other groups of motorists with protected characteristics such as nursing mothers of children under 6 months.

The reasonable adjustments must apply to any occupant of the vehicle covered by the above Act, not just the driver.

The Blue Badge scheme does not apply on private land, and the landowner is legally entitled to charge a parking fee to disabled motorists irrespective of whether or not they hold a blue badge.
Anyone can park in a disabled bay on private land, although morally they shouldn't unless an occupant of the vehicle is disabled, and there is no legal requirement to display a blue badge on private land, nor is it unlawful for a disabled person who does not hold a blue badge to park in an accessible parking bay, although unregulated private parking companies would have you believe otherwise.