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Parking and disability

34 replies

Welshmaenad · 29/12/2016 17:01

Fully prepared to be told IABU but would like some input!

Moved to our new home in April after splitting with DH. We live in a small village where I needed to stay for school/contact etc and there wasn't a great deal of housing available in my budget that met our needs - nothing at all that offered off street parking. Chose our house because I loved it, it ticked every other box, and offered better parking prospects than all the others - village is ex mining so 99% terraces where parking is problematic, our house is a semi situated on a roundabout, but between the property next door and is there's room for 3 cars outside. Next door have one car, usually parked outside their own property.

My DD has CP, and is a blue badge holder. I have chronic health issues and ongoing issues with pain and mobility but don't have my own blue badge as I don't have a firm diagnosis or claim PIP.

Couple who live in the end house of the terrace adjoining the roundabout have a massive great bloody campervan that they park on street outside their own home, plus two other cars that they persistently park outside my house ( both of them). I have politely asked several times if they could leave at one space free for me, as if I can't park outside I often have to park up the hill which is difficult for both my DD and I to manage when we return to the car. This had little effect, so I got a nice sign to put on my fence which states there's a disabled resident and please leave the space free. They persistently ignore this too, and often will park one car across two spaces, blocking me completely from parking there, then move when the other comes home so they can fit both in, whilst DD and I are left to struggle.

They dumped their campervan outside for a week once, even when space cleared for them to return it to its usual spot, which not only blocked both parking spaces but also all the light into my front room. They only use the bastard thing twice a year, so I'm not really sure why they can't put it in storage and make everyone's life a bit easier.

These are people who have known me and my DD for a number of years, are well aware of her disability and my own ill health. It's so frustrating because I'm fully aware that legally they can park where they like, but everyone else locally is so considerate (including next door who will sometimes knock and offer to move their own vehicle so I can use their space, and watch the kids while I move the car, bless them).

I am aware there's nothing further I can do, but AIBU to think they're complete self absorbed twats and also to report them next time they let their MOT go 3 months overdue?

OP posts:
MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 29/12/2016 17:26

When they next park taking up 2 spaces, take a photo and stick it on youparklikeacunt and repeat what you have typed here as to why it's an issue.
Hopefully it will spread across social media and they will be shamed into being a bit more considerate.

WorraLiberty · 29/12/2016 17:30

MothertotheLordsofmisrule do you really think that would solve more problems than it's likely to cause?

MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 29/12/2016 17:34

Worra

To be honest they haven't listened to reason so no need to be so considerate of their feelings.

RichardBucket · 29/12/2016 17:38

Besides anything else, I don't think it's likely to go viral from YouParkLikeACunt. Especially if the picture is only a minor thing (parking across two spaces on a road) and the real cuntishness is in the description.

WorraLiberty · 29/12/2016 17:49

Mother, I'm considering the wellbeing/safety of the OP and her DC.

Inflaming the situation with a petty photo on a website, would be rather silly imo.

Hercules12 · 29/12/2016 17:51

Thing is, as irritating as it is, they've not legally done anything wrong. I would put your energy into campaigning for parking space for blue badge.

Megatherium · 29/12/2016 17:56

I agree, I'm not at all sure that councils can legally decide they won't do disabled parking bays. Contact the Equality and Human Rights Commission to check.

MycatsaPirate · 29/12/2016 17:57

Selfish fuckers!

Call the council and tell them that you need a bay.

If they say no, tell them you want it in writing.

Then take a copy of the letter to the local MP and ask them to sort it.

If all else fails, call the local paper.

Really fucking selfish.

RortyCrankle · 29/12/2016 18:01

Your council may not currently provide disabled parking spaces but there is no reason why they can't change their mind. I would keep on at them until they give you one, write to the Leader of the Council, local councillors, MP, etc - be a pest until they do it.

Good luck.

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