To ask for your parking help?

[jessieca]

I'm starting a new job and there is no parking provided. I'm disabled and a blue badge holder.

There are double yellow lines up the entire street my new work is on. I can park on double yellows but only for 3 hrs and no return for 1hr.

I will be working 8.30ish to 5.30pm. The other streets nearby all have a sign like this one. Am I allowed to park in these on-street bays all day with a blue badge? Thanks so much, I'm totally stressing about this now!

@Aurorie11

Now you've started your job have you told your employer about your disability and more importantly the reasonable adjustments you need? You have day 1 protection from dismissal if you are discriminated against. What really set alarm bells going is that you sometimes need to use a wheelchair, you need a risk assessment to ensure your employer can get you out safely in the event of an emergency etc

You'd need to prove discrimination (at your expense)

In the past 10 years, prospects for the less able - in work and generally - have gone backwards. And that decline is accelerating. (Remember the wheelchair user at COP26 ?).

Probably better for the less able to wind in their aspirations. Save the heartache later.

Thanks for your comments. I've had a bit of a name change fail, I'm the OP. In prev comments I've said I'm not prepared to disclose my disability, due to previous experience of bullying and discrimination.

I've worded my request as asking them to consider mirroring the rules that blue badges have nationally and that neighbouring boroughs have. Such as allowing BB to park free in the council run car park without a time restriction.

Update: I don't have a solution as yet but received this reply - it all seems very promising!

...there does appear to be a problem, which xx aptly highlights in that, whereby we don't have enough parking bays within a reasonable distance or on an accessible route to a destination. As it stands, disabled drivers can't make use of existing parking provisions. Either more bays are needed, which in x is going to be a problem because of the width of the roads, or we need a mechanism whereby a blue badge holder can park in a permit zone while working. X is on track to receive about another 32 restricted parking zones so this issue is only going to get worse.