Blue badge rules

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So if a blue badge holder drives to a location and parks only where a blue badge holder is allowed to park. Then let's someone else out of the car and waits for them, is this technically breaking blue badge rules because they are not the ones doing the walking but the able bodied person is?

@VegTrug sadly, it's perfectly possible for a blue badge holder not to know whether they're able to get out of the car until they actually try it.

I'd be interested to see exactly what's written in your blue badge booklet because I think you must be misinterpreting it.

Sorry, but that really is not acceptable. Congestion, traffic and parking pressure cause serious issues for others. it is not OK to start adding extra pressure to our streets because “it makes Aunt Marge feel happy”:or whatever.

@LastTimeLosingIt is right. The whole scheme needs bonfiring and redone. It needs to be a points on licence issue if abused. Genuinely disabled badge holders who actually need to physically get in/out of vehicle can almost never get a space as it's not viewed as a big deal by the public. The worst are disabled drivers dropping others off and not exiting car or those gaily driving round with their granny's badge. Let's not go there with the fake badges or no badges....

From the Gov website.... "You should not use the badge to allow non-disabled people to take advantage of the benefits while you sit in the car"

How would that work if the bb holder doesn't drive?

You cannot be fucking serious. Your MIL’s situation is completely different; she knows from the minute she sets off she’s not going to be getting out of the car. Her enjoyment of the journey is completely irrelevant.

Everything you’ve described on this thread about your MIL taking your DH to the hospital has been nothing short of total abuse of the system and I’m baffled by how staggeringly obtuse you are about it. I give up.

@Babush
You're being ridiculously defensive!
If MiL does not plan on getting out of the car but just going on a " joyride" you do not need nor should you use the blue badge
It used to be that someone running an errand for the disabled person could use the badge,but the rules were tightened up years ago
I have held a blue badge for 40 years

I'm not misinterpreting anything love! It quite clearly states that if the disabled person is not exiting the vehicle then the badge cannot be used. Simple. Sorry

Blue badge stuff by its name needs to limited to means-tested cases. If we start developing "be kind!" syndrome and allowing the blue badge to be used for more and more and more scenarios ("It makes MIL happy!"), it ends up harming those who really do need to be prioritized for scarse spaces.

if they aren’t going to leave the car they don’t park in a disabled space.

You can come up with as many convoluted ways to try to justify it but you are in the wrong. People like you make life harder for blue badge holders.

Points on who's license?

I agree that the whole system needs revamping.
We constantly get blue badge holders parking across our work permit holders only parking bay. Every single day.
They seam to think that possessing a blue badge entitles them to deprive others of being able to park in clearly marked out permit holder only spaces. Seriously would you park across someone’s drive? Well obviously these people would.

@VegTrug It quite clearly states that if the disabled person is not exiting the vehicle then the badge cannot be used. Simple.

That's great! If it's that clear perhaps you could post it on here and end the debate once and for all. I was going by what the government guidance here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-blue-badge-scheme-rights-and-responsibilities-in-england/the-blue-badge-scheme-rights-and-responsibilities-in-england which doesn't say anything about getting out of the car, but I'm very happy to consider any other official information that i don't currently have.

I don't know. The brass neck of some people is astonishing. I am not going to waste time with the back, and forth going on. The posters who are saying that the BB system needs to be reformed, I think that it works perfectly well. It is down to individuals to not misuse the badge. No system is going to be free from people choosing to do so. Maybe the lack of traffic wardens doing checks is an issue, as well. I very rarely see any. It should not be down to members of the public to police these things.

The poster whose MIL abuses her blue badge- she ought to have it taken off her.
Try and justify it all you like but she’s breaking the rules of having one.

I advocate that the driving theory test should be retaken at regular intervals and now think blue badge rules should be covered in it.

Abuse of blue badges should lead to court cases and if guilty points on your licence

People are given a book with the BB, which sets out in plain English what the purpose of it is, who it is for, and how it should, and should not be used. People will do as they wish, if they have the will. As another poster consistently has pointed out, it would be hard to prove.

This is breathtakingly selfish!

Hospitals by their nature are full of people with health conditions that impact on their life. The ones without a Blue Badge will all find it just as difficult as you to park. Why do you think you should be able to park on double yellows when everyone else can't? Your DH doesn't even sound as impacted by his disability as many other people would be with their conditions. The fact you're willing to jeopardize your MIL's badge because you don't want to pay for a taxi or look for a space like everyone else is disgusting. Shame on you!

Your DH doesn't even sound as impacted by his disability as many other people would be with their conditions. The fact you're willing to jeopardize your MIL's badge because you don't want to pay for a taxi or look for a space like everyone else is disgusting. Shame on you!

The issue is, that the Mil thinks that she is being helpful, which it obviously is for that posters Husband. He maybe should think about reapplying for his own BB.

There's a reason there's double yellows there though, so you are also making life more difficult for everyone.

Again though, whose licence?

The guidance you posted literally says

'You should not use the badge to allow non-disabled people to take advantage of the benefits while you sit in the car.'

That's what this post is about. The disabled person staying in the car whilst their passenger gets out.

If a disabled person turns up with the intention of getting out but then can't and won't be, they can move to park in a normal space.

This.

My DB is a double amputee and thus has a blue badge, the amount of abuse he has received from other blue badge holders is honestly beyond vile.