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Blue Badge Rule Change To Allow For People With Hidden Disabilities
Do people who are anxious really need to be able to park a bit closer to the shops?
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We’ve managed for years just using Blue badge for physical disabilities. Can’t walk far, or stand for long. Bringing mental issues into the mix muddies the water too much. My wife had, I stress had, acute agoraphobia, couldn’t even leave the house without accompanying help. Walking across a car park to a shop was irrelevant.
I do think that people on here are getting mixed up about what the new blue badge permissions are for. Of course it won't be a help to everybody who has a hidden disability. I could however see it being a great help to people who need an escort or a carer to drive them...the two that are suggested in the article are people with autism and people who have brain injuries.
It's not just car parks though. Blue badge holders can park in 'permit parking only' spaces.
That would have come in very handy when I picked my grandmother up from her care home to take her to see my grandfather. I would have been able to park outside her care home and park very close to my grandfather's home instead of driving round and round looking for a 1 to 2 parking space and then having to move my car to another space. I was driving a lady in her 80s who suffered with dementia who thought she was in her 40s and got very stressed when she got out of breath walking.
That would have come in very handy when I picked my grandmother up from her care home to take her to see my grandfather. I would have been able to park outside her care home and park very close to my grandfather's home instead of driving round and round looking for a 1 to 2 parking space and then having to move my car to another space. I was driving a lady in her 80s who suffered with dementia who thought she was in her 40s and got very stressed when she got out of breath walking.
I don't think it would be allowed now but we used to have a department one at work. We used to do home assessments for people who were in hospital to make plans for their safe discharge including the supply and fitting of equipment. In three of the local small towns/villages, people live in flats over the shops on the high streets and they all had double yellow lines. having a blue badge meant that we could do the home visits and get people home from hospital.
Blue badge bays are already heavily abused by the able bodied. Allowing those with "hidden" disabilities to park in them will make this abuse worse.
It's also not entirely clear why a hidden, mental disability requires parking in a wide bay close to the facilities. Other considerations (e.g. separation from crowds) may be more important.
I quite liked the "Purple Parking" idea but I think that name has gone to the airport parking company ...
It's also not entirely clear why a hidden, mental disability requires parking in a wide bay close to the facilities. Other considerations (e.g. separation from crowds) may be more important.
I quite liked the "Purple Parking" idea but I think that name has gone to the airport parking company ...
This is so open to abuse it is laughable.
On the basis that I have a guy at work that phoned (yes phoned) his GP from his desk and managed to get signed-off with "stress" on the strength of a phone call (I had no idea you could do that), if I was so inclined I reckon I could con somebody into believing I was anxious enough that I deserved a blue badge.
I simply refuse to believe an anxious person needs to be closer to the door of Sainsbury's and can then do their shopping.
On the basis that I have a guy at work that phoned (yes phoned) his GP from his desk and managed to get signed-off with "stress" on the strength of a phone call (I had no idea you could do that), if I was so inclined I reckon I could con somebody into believing I was anxious enough that I deserved a blue badge.
I simply refuse to believe an anxious person needs to be closer to the door of Sainsbury's and can then do their shopping.
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