Full list of times where it is okay to park in a Blue Badge Bay if you do not have a Blue Badge.
I realise that it can seem to be a complex issue. On a few occasions recently I have found that some people were entirely perplexed by the rules, so it seemed a good time to share a full and complete list to help everyone.
So here goes…
There! You have now read the full list!
Some people utterly rely on those spaces in order to get out of their vehicles or to make it to the place they need to get to.
The rain, being in a hurry or the fact that you are only going to be a few minutes is never a reason to make everyday life even more difficult for a disabled person.
It is a simple list and should be easy to remember!
No Blue Badge = Don’t park in the Blue Badge Bay!
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I’m Disabled, I don’t have a blue badge…. I don’t park in blue badge areas. I’ve not been allowed that we just park as close as we can
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I would apply for one from your council it’s worth it
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You will probably need a letter from the Pope
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If your disabled why do you not have a badge
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So if you can walk say 201m, you are still disabled (how many car parks are with 201m of where you need to go?) But you are not eligible for a blue badge (eligibility up to 200m). If you can walk over 50m (with or without aids!) you are not automatically eligible, and often, if you are saying you are in pain, but not taking prescription painkillers (perhaps because other medication contra-indicts them) you will often be told you are “not disabled enough”. There has to be a cut off point, but sadly it often bears no relation to the reality of the work around us… I used to be in the same position, but now have a badge, but I know folk at church who have severe arthritis who have been repeatedly refused a badge because they aren’t on prescription painkillers… the fact that she has limited mobility is apparently irrelevant!
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I did wonder when I saw the headline to this article. I thought the list would be short! There is no excuse for parking in a disabled bay without a basge.
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It is a very concise yet comprehensive list!
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That list is TOO complex for many to understand!!
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I can’t believe people still do this, it’s just so ridiculous not to mention disgustingly unfair for anyone in actual need of the space, love this post!
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It happens all too often. I don’t understand how people can be so thoughtless.
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there are so many fit, thick and ignorant people in the world that dont give a damn if you are disabled they park on bays for their own conveinience to hell with any one else,it would be great if the law changed and anyone on bays illegaly should not be fined but disquallified from driving for a month and they would learn what its like to have to struggle to do everyday tasks
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I like your thinking! There should be some actual enforcement of the rules.
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Hi OH. Less is more. Great example and says it all. Have you considered writing another blog about how a blue badge holder may be fined for abusing its privilege, but a none blue badge holder is just made to feel some sort of pathetic shame!
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That is an excellent point! I was horrified in McDonalds one time when using the drive through, they didn’t have the food ready and the waiting bays were occupied so directed me to wait in the Blue Badge Bay. I was polite, but educational!
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Unfortunately the general public have seen the government and local services mistreating the disabled community and have accepted this as permission to mistreat disabled people in general. If it’s ok for the government to bend all the rules it’s ok for them to do the same. There are no controls, no penalties, no restrictions. A space marked as disables is just a convenient parking space with nice wide bays. A free for all.
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Absolutely “Well said” 🙂
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Earlier this year, I was taking my other half’s parents to a national trust property. They are aged 88 and 91 and while one of them can walk maybe 20 yards without needing to sit down, the other would struggle to manage more than ten feet. Neither are light and we would struggle to push them up the steep hill from the general car park in wheelchairs.
As it was, the marshal in the car park directed us to the blue badge area so it wasn’t a problem. Had we not been allowed to use the blue badge area, the venue would not have been accessible to them. Perhaps we need to apply for a blue badge for them, I don’t know how it works as we live in a different county from them but I do not see this as an abuse of the system.
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In New Zealand we apply through our GP doctor
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I think that is how it works here but it would involve getting the care home to organise it as we live several hours away.
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The care home would organise it, or you can fill in the simple form. “It’s just too difficult to get a badge” is not a great excuse for using the spaces without a permit.
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Though I would argue that blue badges wouldn’t even be necessary if it were not for those who use disabled spaces who don’t need to.
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The badge is linked the person, not the vehicle. So if your parents apply for a blue badge, they can use it to park close to places no matter who takes them out. When we took my father-in-law out, we just moved the badge from his car to ours (but please remember to put it back afterwards!)
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Get them to apply. My mum has severe arthritis in her knees, ankles and feet making walking incredibly difficult. I applied, on her behalf, for a blue badge. and she received it earlier in the month
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See you doctor he will tell you how to get one he has to ok it then you pay for it don’t think these selfish people who park without badge realise we pay for our badges
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You don’t have to be a driver to apply for a badge. They can both apply fo one in their own right. I’m using mine 7 lanzarote at the moment. You can use in any e u country, let alone county. No excuse not to have one if entitled.
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But I should say, I totally get the anger at those who do abuse the system either by just using BB spaces for convenience when they don’t have or need a badge or those who still use the badge when the person it is for isn’t in the car.
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I’ve shared this to my local Facebook group, where there’s currently a debate (not sure what there is to debate exactly) regarding who should be allowed to use the one and only disabled space in the village centre. My husband has a blue badge so this is something I’m very aware of. Even if he didn’t, I’d park miles away rather than take the disabled space.
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I hope it helps clarify things for them! Sounds like the local council need to increase Blue Badge holder spaces though, only one is incredibly poor planning.
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Brilliant, I detest it when I see people using disabled spaces just so they can ‘nip somewhere’. it’s just ignorance and laziness
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It used to happen all the time at my son’s school – usually by the staff! They didn’t seem to get that the behaviour sent a huge message as to how they viewed the rights disabled people.
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Our local Tesco has put the blue badge spaces right in front of the cash machines! How ridiculous is that? So now you get people parking in them as they are just stopping for cash and don’t think it will matter. When I complained to Tesco they told me the car park is the responsibility of the local council. I’ve never heard of a council being responsible for a supermarket car park before! It makes me so angry!!! I wish we didn’t need the blue badge, I wish I could go back to those days when my partner could walk like a normal person…..
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I wish my son didn’t need it either. If only people knew how hard life is for a person who cannot walk, they would never abuse the space, not even for a second.x
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I have said that I wish I was healthy and not have a blue badge most people I see using them without badge are fat young people who give you abuse if you tackle them
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I’m amazed that people who don’t need the space would do it – even if for no other reason I would be really worried about being called out on it!
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I have a relative in a care home whom I take out to appointments such as outpatients and the dentist. We don’t have a blue badge but walking is difficult and very slow. I would appreciate it if the care home had a blue badge for occasional use by residents such as these which we could borrow for such specific appointments. Unfortunately the system doesn’t work like that.
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That is a good idea which would help a lot of people.
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Organisations can get them instead of a named person, but they’re issued to vehicles instead. Your relative can apply even if they’re not a driver, the badge goes with them, not a personal car.
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Apply for a badge, if it’s that much of a problem for you.
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Actually it does in some areas. They as a business can apply for badges. These badges are green but work the same way.
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Love this. The only exception I would consider is when you have a disability but not a badge, I had to use private car park disabled bays when waiting for my badge as I’d left it a bit late to apply and deteriorated quite rapidly. I couldn’t have got out of the car in a standard bay, let alone walked far to get in. Legally you would be “permitted”.
The worst one is when people think they can use other people’s badges to run errands for them, I challenged one lady outside Boots for not displaying a badge. Apparently it was OK because she was collecting her mother’s prescription but had left the badge at home, she wouldn’t have it that her mother wasn’t needing a disabled bay 2 miles away from the car! Even when someone runs in for me, I won’t occupy a bay that someone actually needs.
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Try it. Park on double yellows without a badge, leave a note saying the badge is on order. Think you’d get a ticket? Of course you would.
No badge, No parking.
Everybody. EVERYBODY, has their own set of wonderful excuses of how their situation is different and they can use the space without a badge, If one person parks without a badge, so does another and another.
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Of course it would not work on public land, which is why I specified private car parks. It’s the same reason there’s no law against abuse, because technically they are only enforceable on public land and car parks.
You have your standards, I won’t judge or challenge someone with an obvious disability.
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All disabilities aren’t obvious but are still with us preventing us doing what we want to do .😈
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All the time the council do not check who uses blue badge then there will be widespread abuse of them.yesterday I saw four people use someone else’s blue badge in half hour and also the same man park every day from 7.30 am till 5.20pm useing his wife’s badge.reported him every time I see a warden and nothing done.need picture of blue badge holder in car window.
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Can’t believe that some people need clarification on this point! I feel like you should print it off and post on people’s cars when they do park when they shouldn’t lol
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I have left similar on vehicles before! If anyone wishes to print it and share they are most welcome!
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So many people are ignorant to the blue badge! We may need to apply for one for my mother and with a family friend who uses one, we’re very aware about it all. This post needs to be shared as a PSA!
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It is horrible that some people misuse something which is vital to disabled people. Thank you for your fab comment!
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I read this the other day! Such a great post (although it shouldn’t need to be said!), but you really know how to get the point across!
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I get so Angry that people use Parent and toddler bays, so I completely agree with the anguish on these spaces being misused it isn’t on at all they are there for people that truly need it
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There’s a cafe in our local Tesco’s and the so called chef parks I’m one of the blue badge bays. He displays a blue badge but I’ve no clue who’s badge it is. He can be seen sat in the car having a fag break.
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Its a lot of people that do that selfishly, however, I didn’t know you had to have a blue badge to park there. I learn new things every day!
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I’d like to see a list of where it’s not ok for a blue badge holder to park – it’s not a licence to park anywhere…
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Here here, It’s really not that hard to understand!
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What about those people that usebluebadges that don’t belong to them but to their family members such as father or children? I think that is disgusting too.
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It is disgusting. When you know how vital those spaces are, it is despicable to do that.
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I have a marked space outside my house & at work, the number of people who use them because “i’m only going to be 5 minutes” or the council registered black cab (well it’s grey actually) who parks in the space outside my home for over 16 hours at a time.
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That is terrible. Bad enough when anyone does it but 16 hours!!!
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