AIBU to think Blue Badge holders can use parent and child spaces?

I will use these spaces with my blue badge but only if there are no disabled spaces left

Well, that is quite the superpower. Maybe get a job with the DWP.

How do you know the financial situation of people parking up?

No. There are disabled bays for disabled people and there are parent and child bays for people with young children. I would never object to a disabled person using a P&C bay if disabled spaces weren't available. I do object to men driving Audis, BMWs and Range Rovers with no children in tow using them. Have you tried to get a baby car seat out of a car and attach it to pram in a normal bay? Or had an over excited four year old thrust their door open hitting the car next to them as your getting them out. P&C bays exist for a reason.

From what I see at my local Tesco... the P&C spaces are right next to the door.
There is no need for that, and there will be disabled people who do need to be as close to the store as possible.
But the disabled spaces are further away than the P&C spaces. How does that make sense?

There are loads of parking spaces for the disabled!!
Very often at least a third are empty… in my 20 years of driving to a supermarket / gym.

Why on earth do they want to take mother and baby spaces?

It matters because I have a blue badge and find it annoying that the disabled spaces are often further away than the parent and child spaces. And I don't remember having to open the doors particularly wide when my child was in a car seat.

I have a blue badge and park in p&c if the BB spots are full. i need the extra space to get my wheelchair out the side door. I also use them if I've forgotten to swap my BB out of my regular car when out with other people.

I've been instructed to do so by staff at several car parks so it seems to be commonly done.

Children who are walking often still need to be in car seats which mean you need to open doors wider

Why's it matter to you where they are? I never cared about them before I had children or resented parents using them

Surely the parent and child spaces are only for those who need extra space. If children are walking, then why do you need extra space? And they could have the spaces by a pavement or zebra crossings to the store, rather than near it.

Or go into a supermarket for shopping, and go to cafe for lunch etc.

Women with children aren’t being “entitled” for using P&C spaces. They are actually entitled to do so.

Are you a man?

Or indeed to the dentist/optician/ theatre ...

Dad's also use them, why do you only want to disparage mothers/women?

It's safer for the children to not have to walk far, around cars that are reversing or coming around corners.

Do you really care about parking that close to the door?

I don’t think anyone has said that, but a person with young children is quite literally entitled to use the P&C space by their design.
Bizarre attempting to use that as an insult. They have been designed as spaces for people with young children, to keep young children safer and make it easier to get them in and out of cars.

I couldn't get upset about someone with a blue badge using a parent and child space, especially when there are no blue badge spaces free, who would begrudge that?

Yes I think so too. In fact I think they need the spaces a lot more than the parents who can easily park further away from the entrance. I know they'll say they are worried about their child running off in the car park and being run over - well you just need to keep tight hold of them.

Yes they can park on P&C spaces. P&C spaces are only a courtesy to the SUV brigade who "need" loads of space so if there are no blue badge spaces left, it's absolutely find to park in one.

That said there are usually plenty of blue badge spaces in my local supermarket and it's the P&C spaces which are full.

This whole debate would go away if they just made bigger spaces and charged (extra) for them. And it would be quite useful if there were bigger spaces for eg someone who's brokeb their leg and needs more space to get in and out of the car but only for a temporary period. And not just for people with small children.

As opposed to entitled mummies who think that having a child gives them the same rights as a disabled person?

Yep, I used P&C spaces when I broke my foot.

Then there should be some allowance for people with that are temporarily struggle to walk due to serious injury - broken leg and/or major surgeries.

As the normal spaces next to BB and PnC are most used.

You rarely see PnC spaces on streets. Only see them in supermarket, shopping centre, leisure parks etc car parks.

I don't get why disabled bays are further away from the supermarket entrance etc compared to PnC bays.