Hosepipe Ban - Blue Badge excemption !

JuliaHod12
JuliaHod12 Member Posts: 456
edited 30. Mar 2012, 02:10 in Community Chit-chat archive
Hi Guys

I was just reading about the Hosepipe Ban in my area (Thames Water) and there are certain exemptions from the ban for householders where the tenant is a Blue Badge Holder, for example BB holders will still be allowed to use a hosepipe to water their own domestic garden..........may be worth checking out the small print for any bans in your area! :-)

Happy Gardening

Julia :-)

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  • MrDJ
    MrDJ Member Posts: 247
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    ive heard it all now. :shock:

    who makes up these ridiculous rules. weve got no water but if your disabled you can still use it. sounds more like an early april fools to me.

    have you got a link to source Julia.
  • JuliaHod12
    JuliaHod12 Member Posts: 456
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    i know.............madness isn't it?
    Exemption clause (ii) refers.
    even allotment holders cant use anything except hand held containers for watering with effect from 5th April 2012

    http://www.thameswater.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/corp/hs.xsl/15443.htm

    that should give you a link, but i saw it on page 73 of today's Daily Mail newspaper
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,280
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh very interesting Julia ...I suppose its because the disabled would struggle with a watering can...but how guilty would you feel :?
  • jaja
    jaja Member Posts: 135
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    ...well we (the disabled) are being made to feel guilty about most things at the moment so ..hay ho...

    JAJA
  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    more political correctness no doubt :roll: what next? Are we allowed to drive through red lights to get to hospital appointments haha
  • MrDJ
    MrDJ Member Posts: 247
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    i think the clause would be you would have to wear your blue badge around your neck with the time clock showing what time you started watering.

    my mum is 86 now and does all the gardening but cant carry the watering cans and nor can i. wonder if i will have to hold her hand when she waters the garden with the hose pipe.
  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    :shock: I dunno about that :o think of the health and safety implications :o lol you would obviously both have to wear hi-vis jackets and safety goggles, maybe some knee pads too, just in case :lol:
  • MrDJ
    MrDJ Member Posts: 247
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    is that all pheww! i thought you was going to say i would have to hire a cherry picker lift for the flower baskets on the wall.
  • JuliaHod12
    JuliaHod12 Member Posts: 456
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    lol, all of the above Tony/ MrDJ, but only if you have been on the approrpiate Training Courses ;-) x
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 28,543
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Mmmmmm.....

    There's a heck of a lot of folks with badges around here :?

    Very odd.

    Wonder why they didn't go down the DLA route? or attendence allowance for the over 65's?

    LOve

    Toni xx
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