WIBU to ask?

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I have just recently received higher rate mobility for pip and as a result im now eligible for a blue badge.
My condition is such that i have bad bad flares (currently going through one) and then i have to cycle through a number of different medications to find one that works for me well and then my condition dissappears for a bit. This medication bit can take years. (For example my last flare was 6 years ago it took me 24 months to find a medication that cleared my disease for 4 years)

Now to the AIBU.

I live in a terraced house that has no front garden, the door opens directly to the pavement and in front of the house there is a parking area for 4 cars. This is public parking and anyone can use it. (Generally only people that live in the houses use it as there isnt really anything around here)
My other parking space (which is owned by me and on our deeds) is at the back of the house through my garden in a car park down some stairs (quite a lot of stairs). My partner currently parks in that space.

Would i be unreasonable to write to all of my neighbours and ask that one of the spaces out the front of the house is kept free for me so i can park close to the house. Obviously there are times where a visitor might come and thats ok i can then park elsewhere but just on the regular that they avoid that space

My other option is to ask the council to paint a disabled parking bay.

The reason i dont particularly want to do that is that i have no idea how long it is till i find a medication that works. My next medication starts at the end of August and it will be 3 months before i know if it starts working. If by some miracle ive got it right first time then by Christmas i should be in remission.

I dont want a disabled bay painted up if in 5 months im going to be back to normal as it then takes a bay out of consideration for parking till i can get the council to scrub it. (Im not 100% sure how it works)

I dont really know what to do.

Would you be offended if you received a letter like this?

Thanks

If I was in your situation I'd write a brief note condensing what you've said here. You have the option for a council bay but don't want to do that for the times you don't need it. But also, how will your neighbours know when you don't need it? Another option would be to make your own parking space more accessible, ie a ramp instead of stairs, and use that one rather than a public one.

Yes YABU. You have one parking space, which you allocate to your partner. You can't go claiming public roads. If you need to be able to park outside your house, then you need to buy a house with a drive.

It depends also how congested it gets. If it's really hard to get any space outside your houses, then you really can't tell them not to park on the bit of the road you prefer. If you were offering your space at the back, to help ease the lack of space at the front, that might help, but you can't let your partner use your allocated space over and above the other residents if they're the ones you want to keep the public road free for you. Where do you propose they park?

It'd be fairer if you offered your private space to a neighbour to compensate for the loss of the space out the front. It's a bit out of order to keep your reserved space for your partner and expect everyone else to suffer.

The council are highly unlikely to remove a disabled space once they've painted it. The space they paint will be for any blue badger to use, not for you specifically. If you will lose your blue badge entitlement in a few months then the space will almost certainly be blocked permanently.

Blue Badge Holder not blue "badger"

You wouldn't be unreasonable to ask but equally your neighbours wouldn't be unreasonable if they say no. It's a public road and you have an allocated space.

I have a blue badge but our council doesn't have bays for disabled parking so we have to hope there's space close to the house.

All houses on this row have private parking spaces out the back. No one uses them though because the parking out the front is closer to front doors. Just now i can see 20 clear spaces out of 26. My partner co owns this house with me. The front parking is not that congested. Spaces are easy to find generally. There is further parking on our road they can use. It goes 4 spaces tree, 4 spaces tree, and so on. So 4 spaces are in front of four houses if you get my drift.

Im happy to be told im unreasonable though and will not send a letter. Ill just struggle.

Well if the parking is so available, why do you need to book out a spot?

I think you should see if there is a way of making the rear space usable. Or just ask for a disabled bay, but bear in mind, anyone with a blue badge can use it.