At the time of my arrival there was several cars I checked on 6 that had no badge displayed and that I had to wait about 10 Min's and others even longer, or they had to park elsewhere.
These Disabled bays are for the sole use of disabled drivers, not for the overflow of family bays with children or anyone else thinking that they can park close to the front entrance and nip in for their shopping.
The Disability Discrimination Act
The Disability Discrimination Act from October 2004, Part III of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 came into effect within the United Kingdom. This legislation places a legal requirement on service providers to ensure that disabled people do not find it unreasonably difficult or impossible to enjoy the service in the same way as non-disabled people.
The Legal Requirements
Whilst the earlier parts of the Act focused primarily on disabled access to buildings, Part III now looks closer at the issue of car parking. A key element of Part III is that service providers that operate a car park now have to 'monitor' their disabled parking bays to prevent abuse by non-disabled drivers. Failure to provide monitoring could result in a heavy financial penalty, as disabled drivers exercise their rights to compensation under the terms of the Act.
This said there are thousands of drivers out there that are illegally using the blue badge to illegally park. Disabled drivers, as well, are allowing people to use them.
Some councils are clamping down on their use and are becoming stricter in their issuing policy and the disabled driver has now to undergo new tests which will persecute those that can only walk a short way without having to take a rest or call for help.
I urge all disabled people, those that have some form of disability that stops them from walking or gives them less control over their walking ability to contact the Member of Parliament and their local Councilors to object to the way the system of issuing the Disability Badge has now focused.
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