Hi, my name is ingridJ - I have a question about social distancing and parking in town centres.
ingridJ
Community member Posts: 5 Listener
are are any other disabled communities finding that their council’s social distancing policy has removed 90% of the disabled parking in their town centre?
Tagged:
Comments
-
Hello @ingridJ and welcome to our online community. It's great to have you here and you raise a really interesting topic that I think will be affecting lots of our members.
I'm guessing you have been impacted by your local council's social distancing policy. That must be so frustrating not being able to get a parking spot. Have you thought about complaining to the local authority?
Also for your info - I've moved your post to our Disabled People discussion board so more people are likely to spot your question.
Online Community Co-ordinator
Want to tell us about your experience on the online community? Talk to our chatbot and let us know.Concerned about another member's safety or wellbeing? Flag your concerns with us. -
Hi @ingridJ Welcome to the community, it seems this is a problem for you and others as I saw another post last week on the same subject
I havent noticed a problem in my area but there has always been ample parking around
I think the other post was posted in the section your post has been moved to which mat be of interest to you -
@IngridJ I have found the post that @janer1967 referred to.
Have a look at Road closures for SD to see what other members were saying about the same issue.
Online Community Co-ordinator
Want to tell us about your experience on the online community? Talk to our chatbot and let us know.Concerned about another member's safety or wellbeing? Flag your concerns with us. -
Welcome to the community @ingridJ
Online Community CoordinatorConcerned about another member's safety or wellbeing? Flag your concerns with us.
Did you receive a helpful reply to your discussion? Fill out our feedback form and let us know about it. -
Hi @ingridJ and welcome to the community! I have found that disabled parking bays have been blocked as well. It's so infuriating! Has this impacted you going out?
Scope -
It certainly has! Yeovil is a town built on a steep hill. The Council, in their wisdom, have got rid of all disabled parking within walking distance of the Post Office, my Bank and the main shops. They keep saying there are 80 plus disabled parking bays still available. That may well be true, but they are too far away and are at the bottom of the hill! The spaces have gone because of social distancing. Odd that they are exactly the spaces they wanted to get rid of a year ago!
-
How frustrating @ingridJ. Have you spoken to them about this? Do they just reply that there are 80 plus bays still available?
-
Unfortunately they state everyone has to make sacrifices to achieve social distancing! The able bodied have also lost their bus stop at the top of the town. They refuse to acknowledge that in a rural area like this, the majority of public transport users are the elderly. Other areas where it is impossible to achieve 2metre distancing have been conveniently forgotten about with no measures introduced. It is ironic that the areas that really matter and where access is really required happen to be the areas we protested about losing, and have now sadly lost anyway.
-
Thank you for sharing this @ingridJ. Like you say, the spaces that are further away won't be of use if you have reduced mobility.
Have you made an official complaint? If not, here is the complaints procedure for local councils and hoe you can escalate things if you do not get a response you are happy with.
I'm sorry there have been even more barriers for you to gain some kind of normality back!Scope
Brightness
Categories
- All Categories
- 13.3K Start here and say hello!
- 7K Coffee lounge
- 101 Games lounge
- 483 Cost of living
- 4.6K Disability rights and campaigning
- 1.9K Research and opportunities
- 230 Community updates
- 9.6K Talk about your situation
- 2.1K Children, parents, and families
- 1.6K Work and employment
- 807 Education
- 1.7K Housing and independent living
- 1.4K Aids, adaptations, and equipment
- 666 Dating, sex, and relationships
- 374 Exercise and accessible facilities
- 845 Transport and travel
- 32K Talk about money
- 4.6K Benefits and financial support
- 5.2K Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- 17.2K PIP, DLA, and AA
- 5K Universal Credit (UC)
- 6.4K Talk about your impairment
- 1.8K Cerebral palsy
- 886 Chronic pain and pain management
- 183 Physical and neurological impairments
- 1.1K Autism and neurodiversity
- 1.3K Mental health and wellbeing
- 328 Sensory impairments
- 832 Rare, invisible, and undiagnosed conditions