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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 14 Nov 2013 12:42

"Department for Transport guidance recommends shopping centres reserve six per cent of spaces for blue badge holders, which would be 180 for Castlepoint.

Castlepoint has 144 disabled spaces."

If they reduced the number of spaces, how many would be made available? !00? 50? What would the acceptable number be? When would they be mainly used? Would it vary according to the season?

Time for a survey perhaps.... at the Council Tax payers expense of course!

Although we've had this argument on the boards before, Sharron, I couldn't agree more about the Parent and Child spaces. If push came to shove, I'd park in one of those before a disabled bay

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Sharron

Sharron Report 14 Nov 2013 11:39

I would like to see a bit of leeway on disabled bays.

We don't have a disabled badge although we are entitled to one but that is for Fred.

Just occasionally I may have to do something when I have a backache that stops me walking very far or OH may have to do something when his gout is bad.

I don't really know how it could be worked but I do think that at that time we are temporarily disabled.

It is parent and child spaces that I have a problem with.

At about ten minutes before closing time I parked in one outside a hypermarket. There were dozens of spaces all around me and they would not be filling up in the short time left for shopping. It didn't stop a man shouting at me though!

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 14 Nov 2013 10:45

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10806420.AUDIO_____Too_many_disabled_bays_at_Castlepoint________councillor___s_rant_after_she_was_caught_parking_in_disabled_space/

after

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8zuTLfq48

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