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"

I used to live in a street with a similar space - the lady who it was marked for sadly died. The locals started using it simply cos they knew it wasn't required any more. I would imagine that a note (on the fence or on cars) just letting people know someone with a badge needs it should suffice as the majority of people wouldn't take the space knowing you need it.

And it is the kind of thing that neighbourhood policing teams can do, I don't see it as a waste of their time. Policing shouldn't just be about crime, sometimes it's about making sure everyone is being nice to each other. Like not being a dick and parking in disabled bays.

It's not something the police will undertake. The council may get either traffic wardens or community wardens to go out but the police won't

Use the one across the road that is always empty?

Right am going to go and pop a wee note up...my printer is broken so will be a hand written one!

I would never use the one across the road - it is right outside someones house with a ramp. And when I say across the road I don't mean directly opposite my door, I mean on the other side of the road in this block. So would still be hard to walk from/to.

Is yours the one on the left in the picture? Why have you parked at an angle and not straight?

But no people should not be using disabled spaces

Oh sorry giraffes You said it was always empty

The one next to mine on the other side is the same angle. I had to copy that one so everyone could open driver doors. It is an ongoing nightmare in my street - some park straight, some at different angles and you have to try to fit together. And people leave like 3/4 of a car space between them and the next car usually which does my head in! I would love to go out one day and draw bloody lines on!

I said it was always empty or used by the same car - I meant it was left empty when the BB car wasn't in it.

The people on the street were considerate/stuck to the rules before when they knew someone had been allocated the space; no reason to think they won't be when they realise the same applies again. When parking is tight it is hard to leave a space completely empty when there is no resident with a blue badge!

I do wonder if you should contact the council though, as the space was obviously "put there" for the previous resident, I don't think it's automatic that a disabled space would be provided for every resident with a disability. C