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Parking outside house

Hi,
So my partner is recently disabled (primary progressive MS) and has been awarded the highest levels of PiP and we are awaiting assessment for disabled facilities grant to build a wheelchair accessible downstairs space. We have planning permission for that.
My partner can walk short distances with help and his specialists say it is important for him to do this as long as he can.
Our property isn't immediately facing the road but is one away from the road on a footpath around a green. Our parking is 'non reserved' on the street. Lots of neighbours with road frontage have dropped their kerbs so parking is at a premium. There is one other disabled resident at the other end of the green who has a disabled bay marked for him.
However when we asked the council for marked bay at the closest point we were told 'there's no budget for this anymore'. The upshot was - they won't do it for free, they don't provide a service where we can pay to have it done *and* they won't allow us to have an approved contractor do it as it is the council's highway. Their parting shot was that it wasn't anyone's right to park near their property and these bays aren't enforceable anyway (although all our neighbours respect them).
We are about to spend everything we have and more to get our property fit to live in with a disability (and the council support that) but without access it all seems a bit pointless. We can't afford to move...
Any advice welcome!
So my partner is recently disabled (primary progressive MS) and has been awarded the highest levels of PiP and we are awaiting assessment for disabled facilities grant to build a wheelchair accessible downstairs space. We have planning permission for that.
My partner can walk short distances with help and his specialists say it is important for him to do this as long as he can.
Our property isn't immediately facing the road but is one away from the road on a footpath around a green. Our parking is 'non reserved' on the street. Lots of neighbours with road frontage have dropped their kerbs so parking is at a premium. There is one other disabled resident at the other end of the green who has a disabled bay marked for him.
However when we asked the council for marked bay at the closest point we were told 'there's no budget for this anymore'. The upshot was - they won't do it for free, they don't provide a service where we can pay to have it done *and* they won't allow us to have an approved contractor do it as it is the council's highway. Their parting shot was that it wasn't anyone's right to park near their property and these bays aren't enforceable anyway (although all our neighbours respect them).
We are about to spend everything we have and more to get our property fit to live in with a disability (and the council support that) but without access it all seems a bit pointless. We can't afford to move...
Any advice welcome!
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The council's ALL of them waste tons of money on doing nothing yet when it comes to disabled people the council do a type of disabled hate crime by treating disabled people like 3rd rate
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The area is grass surrounded by footpath - so nowhere for signage.
The council won’t even put me on a list to tell me if their policy changes (they don’t want evidence of how many citizens they are failing) so it seems like a dead end.
I’m considering getting some traffic cones with disabled signs on and using those (after a quick note to the neighbours) which is technically not right but the best I can think of in the circumstances.
If there was a proper solution but it cost money I would fundraise the amount somehow - but I just hit dead ends
This is hard but all you can do is try again. What about contacting your local paper and selling your story as a human interest feature? I recently had the same issue as you when I contacted my local council to ask about parking bays.