Blue Badge Assessment

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  • SteveBurns
    SteveBurns Member Posts: 177
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    My BB expired in April. I'm not on DLA and need to get to the library to pick up a form. Even that is difficult due to the car park situation and the walk from the car.

    Without the badge I am finding I do less, if I can't park legally close to where I'm going I just go home. It is awful the way I see people park in the BB bay or double yellows and just amble off with a smile on their face, walking here there and everywhere.

    I find it difficult to smile when in pain and I'm in pain when I walk.
  • Annah
    Annah Member Posts: 92
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    SteveBurns wrote:
    My BB expired in April. I'm not on DLA and need to get to the library to pick up a form. Even that is difficult due to the car park situation and the walk from the car.

    Without the badge I am finding I do less, if I can't park legally close to where I'm going I just go home. It is awful the way I see people park in the BB bay or double yellows and just amble off with a smile on their face, walking here there and everywhere.

    I find it difficult to smile when in pain and I'm in pain when I walk.

    I hear you Steve and my fear is, that'll be me in September. I'd probably just go home if I couldn't park close or if I have to keep forking out the ridiculous parking charges that Huntindonshire District Council sees fit to charge. We used to have free car-parks outside the town, so I could park up for free and use my scooter to get into town, but now they charge for those as well.

    It is ironic that a BB often means we walk more, since a lot of us can manage short stints with a rest in between. I can get all around our little town like that. But without it, life becomes much harder.

    The hospital is just going to become prohibitively expensive, and I'll either have to walk a lot further, or use a wheelchair, which I haven't had to do for ages. Tesco will lose a lot of money though - the Co-op has ordinary bays right near the entrance, so I'll have to switch supermarket.
  • justinbarrow
    justinbarrow Member Posts: 338
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    elainebadknee wrote:
    Hi

    Nowhere on the form does it state you need the address and telephone number of the signatory so why did they send it back to you for that - dont make sense to me?

    Elainex

    Hi Elainex, I phoned them today and asked and they said that they periodically check the reference of a certified copy of proof of ID every so often and mine was one that had to be checked and picked out at random. If only I was picked at random for a million pounds win.

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