to start a thread about parking spaces?

[giraffescantboogie]

Sorry it isn't in a supermarket! Am not sure what to do about this though.

I have a blue badge, only got it recently due to asthma. In my street it is just on street parking, but there is a disabled bay right outside my door. It used to be for the man upstairs but he left a few years go.

Everyone gradually realised the bay wasn't in use and started to park in it normally. It is now treated as if it isn't there.

Usually I can manage to get a space fairly close to my door, depends what time I come home. Sometimes it is impossible - I think this will be the case from tomorrow onwards - am in Glasgow and am 5 min away from a major sporting venue for the commonwealth games! Some streets have permit holders only parking - ours doesn't! So anyone going to the games can park here!

Today for example I have come home and a fairly wheezy and short of breath and I had to squish my car right in to get a space. Mines the silver one (with blue badge!) just out of shot of the photo is another car right beside mine, one on right is in middle of disabled space.

AIBU to pop a sign on the fence saying something like "disabled space in use"

Call 101

Get some of those 'you park like a dick' stickers you get online... ;)

On a more serious note I agree with Daffy. Call 101 and give them the reg and a photo if you can.

phone the council and get the traffic wardens out or get them to refresh the paintwork or to put a sign up saying disabled badge holders only.

I don't think there's anything wrong with you putting a sign up but how much notice do you think would be taken of it?

Call 101? Seriously?

That just seems to be the answer to everything on here

I dont think there is anything the council or police can actually do about it unfortunately, i would but a notice on the fence i dont think the is BU at all. Good suggestion to ask the council to refresh the paint, no doubt they will charge you for it!!

It's really not a police job. even 101.

I believe it now comes under civil parking enforcement and is handled by councils.

At the very most a parking attendant might ticket the vehicle but that's not going to solve the OPs problem unfortunately

If other disabled drivers wish to use the space, then there is nothing you can do.

I think she is saying that people who do not have blue badges are parking there - treating it like it isn't there and is just a normal space.

Is it in a housing complex, or on a road?

If it is on a road, it should be patrolled. I would drop a note through your neighbours' doors and say 'hello, I am your neighbour and a Blue Badge holder and need to sue the space, so could you all kindly make sure that your visitors keep it clear'. And if anyone parks, call the parking company your leaseholders use.

If it is on a road call the coun cil and ask that they come and ticket non BB holders using the space.

Is there a notice on the pavement, o a pole, or on the wall behind it, saying it is a disabled bay?

No notice or anything. Just yellow and says the words disabled on road in yellow.

It is a normal council road, not a private road.

It is flats so cars could belong to anyone, each front door has 11 flats inside it with goodness knows how many adults inside so even if I see which main door a driver goes into then I don't know which flat they are in.

Earth, I know that.

It is cars with no badge using it.

A blue badge holder being persistently denied access to a disabled parking space by non blue badge holders is worthy of reporting to 101, IMO.

DISABLED RESIDENTIAL PARKING BAYS

As a badge holder, you can contact your Local Authority Roads Department who will conduct an assessment which may incur a cost. Unless there is a Traffic Regulation Order ( TRO), any driver, including other badge holders, can park there as the road markings are only advisory. Even if a TRO is in place, other badge holders may park there when displaying their badge.

www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/28155511/1

So if there is no traffic regulation order anyone can park there anyway. Looks like you need to speak to Glasgow City Council Roads department (www.glasgow.gov.uk/roads) but I doubt they can do very much until after the games.

www.glasgow.gov.uk/roads

See when the man upstairs lived here no one at all part from him parked in the space. It then sat empty for a year! There is one across the road and it is always empty or used by same car.

I think people realised he had left and knew no one with a bb was using it.

My hope is that if they realise it is being used then they might leave a wee space.

I think a note is a good idea. I may have put a note on a car who consistently parks in a disabled space without a blue badge but I am a stroppy cow.

Savignon there's not a thing the police can do about it. The bays are more a courtesy than anything police have no powers to move cars parked in them

phoning 101 is in this case a total waste of everyone's time

Polite note on the offending cars and then escalate to a slightly less polite note. I am more than happy to help you write it.

Yes. People are generally nice. Maybe a wee note through the doors saying you are a badge holder and you would really appreciate being able to use the space
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If its the same cars that keep parking I'd definitely try a note. as you say the bays not been used for a year or so so they've probably just got used to using it.

I'd see if the council would repaint it too highlight that it's needed now

I could buy yellow road paint from B&Q and go over the lines ;)

Giraffes I think the best thing to do is to take some annual leave,then park your car in the space with the blue badge clearly showing and don't move it for days.

We have designated parking which we don't use ourselves but like to have for our visitors. I don't have any problem with people using it occassionally but the use crept up and crept up until there was someone in it all the time and we couldn't use it ourselves. In fact there was a wee altercation between a regular user and someone else when the regular user couldn't get in. My folks went on holiday and parked in the space for a fortnight recently and we've not had anyone in it since.

You can contact the council or your neighbourhood policing team if you have such a thing and they might put a card on the car for you. I accidentally parked in a bay like that (I am hugely mortified by the fact I did it, the marking was faded but honestly not so faded that I shouldn't have spotted it) and got a note on my windscreen from the police asking me to be more considerate in future. That might help do the trick of getting people used to it again.