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Hi,

Our daughter is two, and for all of her life has had congenital hip problems for which she has received surgery and splintage. It is not know when and if this will be resolved.

She is growing rapidly and is becoming more and more difficult to carry up or long shared drive. The problem is, our next door neighbour is a complete A-hole and massively objects to us parking on the drive. It's not possible to park side by side, we have to go one car in front of the other, but it only remains unproblematic if I just unload and then move my car again.

I am getting really fed up of this and finding it physically really demanding as she is in a hip brace and is awkward to carry. We have applied for a disabled space, but the coucil said where we park is too dangerouse to load and unload a disabled child. They were prepared to put one in front of our neighbours house (ha ha) but I was so worried about causing ructions that I declined it. He is seriously nasty work and people in our street have literally had punch ups over parking with him, which I don't want to encourage.

So, the last resort really is to dig up our front garden and get a parking bay put in there, but we're financially really tight as I don't work because I have to care for our daughter. Does anyone know of any assistance that is offered to support disabled children and their carers in circumstances like this?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Sorry, don't know, but bumped you.

Might get more help on SEN children's area. It's much busier.