to complain about these vehicles parked in the disabled parking spaces?

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I have a blue badge and frequently have to compete over bb spaces with non badge holders. I never normally challenge because I'm too scared of the consequences. But I think these guys are really taking the piss. They are currently working on the outside of the supermarket (looks like they're putting up lights). Both yesterday and today I was unable to park because their work vans are taking up all the disabled space. Today it was 2 vans parked sideways across the 4 spaces. I was so annoyed I ask them to move but was told the vans needed to be like this so they could access the contents (sides roll up).

AIBU to complain?

There's a disabled loo but you have to go to the information desk for the key and it is not always staffed, especially on Sundays.

To be fair there are recently built baby care areas which you can reach without stairs and have a loo so a man who is not technically disabled but has trouble with stairs could probably go there. But it's not adequate.

Is that a RADAR key ? They are available to buy (MrsLH has 3).

Better start another thread if you want to talk about combined baby-change/disabled loos .....

Oh, just to add, brain-dead design is still with us. There's a 2013 building near us, which has a Costa in it. Not sure who was responsible for the layout, but they have 2 toilets. A regular one (unisex) and a disabled one (unisex). However, some moron (yes, I am angry) laid it out so you have to go past the disabled one, to get to the regular one (which is much narrower). So, no prizes for guessing what happens ... Yup ! The disabled loo is almost permanently occupied, whilst the regular loo stands empty. (I am still awaiting a reply to my suggestion they fit it with a RADAR key)

Now I am not really an expert in building, however it will be a fact that before the ribbon was cut on that particular space, a whole host of people - probably very well paid people, with words like "co-ordinator", and "officer" in their job titles will have been involved. And not one of them spotted something a child (who had to use a wheelchair) would have.

Not sure whether it is RADAR. The baby-change is not intended to be a disabled loo but might be used!

i had a temporary blue badge over here when pregnant with DD2 as my pelvis split so badly i was on crutches.

it really, truely made me appreciate the difficulties faced by people who have to use them every day. And i was on crutches rather than in a wheelchair

I never, ever park in a disabled space at all. If there are no other spaces its tough shit and i have to go back later. Because if i take that BB space that means that a disabled person might have to go back another time instead because i would be being selfish.

Is there a phone number on the vans? I find that gets a better response than the drivers.

It was particularly fun when one was parked diagonally across two bb spaces

Or go just as they are about to leave and block them in. Tell cs that you have not eaten for 3 days because of them and you are so sorry but it is the only way.

Ha lurking. They just looked smugly on.