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Disabled Parking Privileges
Is it a legal requirement that private car park operators provide spaces for disabled drivers and are those spaces to be provided free of charge or exempt from time limits or both?
All assistance gratefully received.
Rich
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Rich
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as soon as you write privilege
you are acknowledging it is not a right
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bit technical but this is in 'Law'
scroll down to Hohfeld analysis
you are acknowledging it is not a right
https:/
bit technical but this is in 'Law'
scroll down to Hohfeld analysis
A Disabled Blue Badge is allowed for people who have limited walking ability or who have such things as heart conditions etc. where walking longer distances could cause their symptoms to exacerbate.
They do not mean that parking is free of charge, in fact more and more councils are charging, some may allow 30 minutes extra beyond the ticket expiry time provided the blue badge is correctly displayed.
The spaces are normally larger to allow for ease of access and the spaces are usually nearest to where the shops are.
The myth of free parking is wrongly assumed. I have a blue badge but do not assume that I should be allowed to park free of charge. Anyone who thinks that should be the case should think again. Why should I or anyone else have free parking when others do not, just because a blue badge is displayed. It is for convenient access to shops.
They do not mean that parking is free of charge, in fact more and more councils are charging, some may allow 30 minutes extra beyond the ticket expiry time provided the blue badge is correctly displayed.
The spaces are normally larger to allow for ease of access and the spaces are usually nearest to where the shops are.
The myth of free parking is wrongly assumed. I have a blue badge but do not assume that I should be allowed to park free of charge. Anyone who thinks that should be the case should think again. Why should I or anyone else have free parking when others do not, just because a blue badge is displayed. It is for convenient access to shops.
Its my understanding that there are best practice suggestions for the private provision of parking for people with disabilities BUT they don't have to be blue badge holders so quite hard to monitor and manage their use. Locally, councils have been known to put pressure on private providers by refusing planning agreement to projects which don't comply with those best practice arrangements. There is no requirement for for any kind of local authority parking to be either free or time limit exempt. Again, locally to me I believe that some car park use is free to blue badge holders but the leisure car parks (seaside and countryside) are not.
It makes sense for local authorities to provide free parking for blue badge holders, although many don't.
Blue badge holders can park on single yellow all day and double yellow lines for three hours. This does not help the flow of traffic and of course if people have to pay to use the car park they will park for free on the yellow lines.
Blue badge holders can park on single yellow all day and double yellow lines for three hours. This does not help the flow of traffic and of course if people have to pay to use the car park they will park for free on the yellow lines.
hc I take your point, but no one is required to apply for a blue badge whatever their level of disability and while private car park management can decide to make a displayed blue badge one of its criteria, it can't refuse use of its designated bays to people with disabilities who are not blue badge holders.
"while private car park management can decide to make a displayed blue badge one of its criteria, it can't refuse use of its designated bays to people with disabilities who are not blue badge holders." If the conditions mean only a blue badge holder can use the space, why can they not refuse its use to others?
Slightly off topic, surely not on AB, but I was taking a friend to an appointment when she had a broken leg and was in plaster but we were unable to park in a restricted bay, hence a long walk, I couldn't drop her at the entrance then go to park, she needed help. Maybe there could be a temporary card, different colour, for such circumstances.
our local hossie has disabled parking bays, some at top of the hill, others at the bottom for which a service is provided to get the disabled person up the hill to attend appropriate clinic.
Also, there's a space outside entrance to allow folk to assist a person as in Zebo's case.
Why are hospitals built on top of hills anyway?
Also, there's a space outside entrance to allow folk to assist a person as in Zebo's case.
Why are hospitals built on top of hills anyway?
hc they (management) can try to fine people with disabilities who use their spaces designated for people with disabilities....however if the person can prove they are disabled but choose not to apply for a blue badge or maybe are foreign visitors who cannot apply, then the fine won't get far.....if they designate the space for blue badge holders only (or martians or premier league football players or any other group) then they can manage the spaces accordingly....
This is an archived article but I believe its still the case in law.
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