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Jim-Willy:

--- Quote from: "datalas" ---illiteracy isn't a disability, at least not in rawtenstall :)

said stickers were only used in extreme cases, such as people parking in the disabled spots and going to work all day  :evil:
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ADSA used to be a sensible lot 'till the yanks got 'o'd.

snowie:
Sorry to butt in guys.
How about someone who cannot get a blue badge although all the so called medical criteria is met.
We are talking about arthritis of the lower spine and right hip, and chronic asthma.
The reason for refusal never given  x5.
We suspect that it may be because the person concerned still works.
Although I have to say the firm concerned really went out of their way to accomodate the disabilities.
Just to throw a real spanner in the works, how about someone who is registered disabled but does not have a blue badge but has a disabled tax disk.
So should it be that you can only park in these spaces if you have a blue badge?? :?:
Snowie

Wanderer:
It all depends on your local council.
In Nottinghamshire you must have a DLA tax exemtion certificate to get a blue badge.
It is possible but very rare for someone to get a Notts badge on the say so of a doctor.

A tax exempt tax disk (for disaabilities reasons (of the person) as opposed to disavilities of the vehicle (pre 1973 :) ) should be an indicator that the vehicle is entitled to the badges. They use this on the dartford tunnel/bridge to check the badge isn't hookey.

I saw an article the other morning that badges change hands at over a £1000.


With regard to non eligibility. Refusals are often because the disability isn't long term. Although the ones mentioned sound long term.

Ed

datalas:
feel free to butt in by all means, especially since you are correct in that it's nigh on impossible to be properly registered as disabled, my grand parents suffer from the same problem.

however what I think this is is more a general complaint about these spots being used by people who have no legitimate reason for doing so, at least assuming "being lazy" isn't a legitimate reason.

my grandmother has quite serious arthritis, and isn't all that well (having had major cancer surgery in her life) I've often had to see her struggle (well, help her struggle) from the other side of the carpark because the guy in the bmw is clearly disabled, despite wearing a matching tennis outfit (an exageration I accept) but it's that sort of person we're complaining about....

Wanderer:
It used to be done via qualified doctors.
Now you get a qualified doctor to fill in the forms.
They are then scrutinised by civil servants looking at tick boxes where they often decide the doctor in question is wrong and then don't allow the DLA which gives access to the badges.

It's really complicated especially if you don't understand how the system works.

It's now possible to get badges for someone with mental health problems, that can run 5 miles, than get it for aged person where they deem the problem not to be of live endangering proportions. It all sucks.

Then you get to London and find they don't honour the scheme and you get clamped (If they've got any 16" clamps)

Ed

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