Disabled Parking

People can get a BB but might be able to walk sprightly (ffs) due to:

• you receive the mobility component of PIP and have obtained 10 points specifically for descriptor E under the ‘planning and following journeys’ activity, on the grounds that you are unable to undertake any journey because it would cause you overwhelming psychological distress

Or

• you have a severe disability in both arms and drive regularly, but cannot operate pay-and-display parking machines

Or

• you are constantly a significant risk to yourself or others near vehicles, in traffic or car parks
• you struggle severely to plan or follow a journey
• you find it difficult or impossible to control your actions and lack awareness of the impact you could have on others
• you regularly have intense and overwhelming responses to situations causing temporary loss of behavioural control
• you frequently become extremely anxious or fearful of public/open spaces

hth.

I agree. When I broke my foot, I used P&C spaces close to the door.

No. Having children does not make you disabled. One is a life choice, one is what life has thrown at you.

Before I got my BB I also used P&C spaces in the supermarket. I asked if I could as I couldn’t exit the car in a normal space and they put my name and reg in an exception book at customer services.

He is right though. Not all disabilities are visible, and not all reasons for having a BB are to do with walking. My best friend can walk sprightly and at great speed. She has a BB.
You are not a parking attendant though, so really had no right to have a go at him.

Agree, but I'm told that Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD and Agoraphobia, and PTSD, OCD, personality disorders, depression and anxiety are all frequently given blue badges according to Buckinghamshire cc's website....

I try to have empathy, but when with my Mum who is in tears with the pain of getting herself out the house in/out of car at the back of a car park over rough ground, because all the BB spaces were taken it is a bit tricky! Or having to dump her like a piece of luggage at the entrance to somewhere and come back after parking miles away...

Mum can barely move, but someone sauntering out the entrance to somewhere and hopping in their car in BB space, that they are able to drive on their own etc...

I agree. I keep having to remind myself to be kind, not everything is visible etc...! But.... arrrghhh!

Nope. I prefer to park at the back, with more room, far away from the shops (and with less chance of running oblivious shoppers over).

My father on the other hand is a legit blue-badge user and loves winding people up by taking his Jaguar to the shops and parking in the disabled space. Then, waiting for them to finish ranting before pulling up his trouser cuff to display his false leg.

I do think there needs to be more BB spaces. We're getting older and sicker as a nation and more people have mobility problems.

Parents with or without prams can't use blue badge spaces unless they have a blue badge, you do know that don't you?

Clearly not

It's your question so you finish it!

I do yes, did you mean to quote me because I wasn't agreeing with the OP

We actually do park there now as my daughter has a BB but even then we use them sparingly. She has a physical health issues affecting both legs and uses crutches and a wheelchair at various times. We try and use them only when there is many available and don’t use them at the hospital as she is fortunate to have me to help her whereas others may not and may need them more. We benefit from the free hospital parking as she has a BB and we are extremely grateful for this alone.

I feel conflicted using them even though we do have a BB so couldn’t use one without it. My daughters was only granted recently even though she has had these issues for many years and it was tempting to use them before. We have had many a time where I have had to reverse my car back out of a space to have enough space to get her out the car and into the wheelchair and the same when leaving and have had to place the chair somewhere safe to reverse the car out to be able to get in her to leave.

I feel sad when we go places and there are no BB spaces available and none of the cars parked have a badge on display. It has been life changing for my family to be able to use the spaces when needed.

I think she does, but it reads to me as though @Lomonald meant "allowed to park in" rather than "exempt from".

Another example of inaccurate use of language, which (apparently) doesn't matter at all 🙄

Never, under any circumstances. I mean, perhaps if a passenger in my car was literally giving birth and there was no where else to stop?

But there was no need to add anything about prams unless obviously if the person in the car had a blue badge, your reply doesn't make sense, if a space is Bb specified then nobody really should be parking in it .

Yes, when with DD1, who has a blue badge.

When twin DDs were small, and parent child spaces weren’t common, I used to park at the far flung edges of supermarket car parks, which usually had plenty of spaces, rather than use a disabled space.

The biggest problem I have, is people parking in them, with no blue badge at all, not people who look sprightly with a blue badge. DD1 can look sprightly, but she cannot walk reliably anywhere.

what a strange question.
why do you need to know? wtf has mums and babies got to do with anything.
is this a thread with an ullteria motive?

I do, but only when my disabled daughter is with me. We have a blue badge so we are allowed.

I park in a disabled space ONLY when I'm chauffeuring a friend with a blue badge. (he has a wheelchair) We're not averse to parking at the far end of the car park if there isn't a disabled space, and often do this.

Yes, I quoted your post which said "why would people with prams be exempt from parking in BB spaces" or were you being sarcastic? Or did I misunderstand and you meant something different?

Only when I was picking Mum up from the Supermarket, she couldn’t walk properly, used 2 sticks .. should have had a blue badge, but found the system too complicated. I would drop her, sit her on a bench, go park the car in a regular spot, then after shopping sit her back on the bench, go get the car and drive back to pick her up .

If they had a drop off / pick up zone that was being used properly, rather then being used by prople “just popping in for a few bits / fags / to use the toilet” I wouid have used that.

Absolutely not. My late husband had a BB for his final few months, and on occasion, after parking in a BB space, he felt too tired and frail to get out and into his wheelchair. I immediately vacated the BB space, and parked elsewhere, as that is the correct thing to do.

The BB space is only required if the holder needs the extra room. If they are staying in the car, they don’t need it.

I only ever used them when I had my very elderly and increasingly mobility impaired mother with me, accompanied by her blue badge.

Otherwise, now I didn't and I don't.

And just to add to my post above - some people might need to be very close to entrances, and have a BB for that reason, even though they don’t necessarily need the extra space.

I was asking the original poster why they thought people with prams should be "allowed" in disabled parking spaces, because they had it in their original post, sorry if I wasn't clear.