A (disabled) parking one!

Most of the ones around here are just painted on the street outside of people’s homes, no need for knocking anything down.

I understand why they've done it if they have mobility issues but technically they've no right to.

I really wouldn't do anything about it as the council will be less than interested. A traffic warden on the make more so.

It's not always easy to get one outside your home my mum and separately my sister were both disabled and both refused parking bays outside their houses the reason being they had front gardens but as the houses were both rented neither could get landlords ( one being the council) permission for knocking walls down.

No, its not legally binding (don't think anyone has suggested it is), but it is what councils suggest in some situations - a polite notice asking that people avoid parking there. They do generally suggest the notice is big enough for people to see and placed where it is visible, however theres no way of ensuring people use common sense or logic!

There will always be people who take being told 'try a sign asking people nicely not to park there' by the council as carte blanche to be fucking obnoxious and vandalise peoples cars, thats just how the world is. Certain people act like that anyway!

But I dont think that is legally binding? I lived on a terraced street, one of my neighbours had this, but it was also marked in white paint on the road?

Had very similar in our village. Resident bought sign and put it up as his wife was disabled. Would regularly shout and rage at people who did not comply with it. I would normally have sympathy BUT he had to buy the sign as the council would not give them a marked bay. They werent entitled to it because they had offstreet parking available and chose not to use it AND he wanted to keep 2 spaces free at all times. One for his wife's car that she could no longer drive and it was rarely moved and a second for his car.

If you have a drive that meets your needs I think the council would reject your application anyway.

That isn't true. Many areas charge for such bays and people still ignore them.

Whether they are misrepresenting themselves or not, the sign in not illegal.

I assume that you have video footage of the person or people who wrote on your car. Because without it you can report it to whoever the hell you like - there is no evidence and they can just deny it (if it was them).

I don't think its a 'massive cheek' to put a sign up in some places - my friend has had to because otherwise she might have to park three streets over, the space outside her house is the only suitable one for a long way, due to the terrain.

Parking 3 streets over might be annoying for an able bodied person but for someone using a power wheelchair it could add half an hour or more onto the trek back to the house as the pavement route might not (and in this case, isn't) the same as the road route due to a lack of dropped kerbs/obstructions.

So far the polite notice asking people not to park there has worked very well.
The council are the people who suggested the sign, as there is nothing they can do to iron out hilly northern town and a dedicated disabled bay would be free for any blue badge holder to use, or advisory only and free for anyone to use.

Massive cheek putting up an a sign like that in the first place. Who do they are think they are to dictate where other people are allowed to park?!

If there is no disabled parking then they need to take that up with the council, not take it into their own hands to dictate to other drivers.

Report vandalism to the police.

Report to police for damaging your car, the disabled parking is a separate issue and you didn't see the sign (which is only a request).

So disabled people can't go out, or write?

and had him charged for trespassing.

Not disabled enough to go out and write on her car !!!!

I must be honest, I would deliberately not look into the window of the house adjacent to a free parking spot that I parked in.

Far too many people have the crazy idea that it's their space; so whilst I would understand that I was doing nothing remotely illegal, immoral or antisocial in parking there, I wouldn't go out of my way to risk meeting the eye of one of these bonkers entitled people, with their delusions of somehow owning public land, and them shouting at me to move.

There were two disabled people in households next to each other on our street who obviously applied for disabled spaces to be painted.

I don't know how far in advance they applied, but the two bays were painted a couple of weeks after one of them had moved. A long time afterwards, the council removed one of them.

The second of the people has now also moved - and the space remains. Parking is at a real premium and people just ignore it and use the space anyway. Technically they shouldn't, of course, but otherwise it would only ever be used once in a blue moon, whilst people had to park well away for no purpose.

I don't know our council's rules on getting them removed after you move out, but if they charge you £200+ to do so when you're moving out (or your disabled loved one has died), I can see why people wouldn't bother informing them.

I did say that maybe it's different in different areas 🤷‍♀️ We applied for one and paid no application fee

but just because you don’t have that experience doesn’t make it untrue…….councils do charge for this in many places and it’s an application fee not a guaranteed bay - so you might pay to apply and have it refused anyway.

You report the vandalism to the police. You'll need this if you want to make a claim on insurance.

Just checked our council and it’s £320, council next door is £220 so looks like it varies place to place

@Morph22010 I have a bit of experience of disabled spaces, blue badges etc across more than one London borough. I've never heard of a council charging £100s to provide a designated disabled bay. Maybe the London councils have different rules

I wouldn't find that amusing. I'd have parked him in.

This is genius.

My neighbour was told by the council to put as sign, as he was too tight to pay for a driveway & crossover - so as that was an option refused a parking bay. (Disabled wife never left the house anyway).
If anyone dared park there he would park with his car touching the bumper and come out yelling when they arrived.

It's a request but cannot be enforced - nice to be polite but report any damage to your car OP

Anyone can buy those signs. I would be reporting them to the police for vandalising your car