To think that Waverley Council ^shouldn't^ be charging

[CardyMow]

Blue Badge holders to use a disabled parking space??!! Apparently they will get a concession of getting one hour extra for their money. Are Waverley council Tory by any chance??!! AIBU to think that this is well out of order?

alice indeed I do on this thread. I wonder if somebody somewhere thinks that the travellers should be allowed to stay and that blue badges ought to be abolished . . .

Take My respectful good wishes to your friend.

I always thought that blue badge holders got free parking. Seems obvious why they should.

Yes, Waverley is Tory-run although I know the Chief Exec of Waverley (not an elected official, the Chief Exec is a civil servant) and let's just say I wouldn't be at all surprised if she thought this up all by herself.

Generally speaking, it is the job of the chief exec to come up with money saving and spending schemes, often the councillors just ratify what the various departments have come up with.

Take ocupational therapy should/might help with ramps over the steps, handrails, etc. Worth a try?

I'll pass that on Alice, thank you, but I don't know if their house would be suitable. It's not just one or two steps. Their house is on a hillside so there are steep steps and slopes all over the place.

They might get a ramp down from the back door, but they only have a very small flat area before the garden slopes upwards in bigs 'steps' cut out of the hillside and shored up. There's a slope in the middle that my friend could drive a wheelchair up but it's the steps to get out of the house that would possibly cause the biggest problem because there's not much room to fit a slope there too. They did have a sort of bridge thing fitted at one point, but that's where she slipped and broke her ankle and they had to take it down again.

The flat part of the back garden leads to the side gate, and there is a paved slope there which they share with neighbours. It wouldn't be ideal in wet or icy weather but it would be okay at other times. The problem is there are two more steps at the bottom of the slope that lead onto the street through a shared gate.

And at the front they have about twelve steps to go up to the front door and the front path just leads them to the shared gate again.