Disabled parking signs

[The Medway Handyman]

Anyone know?

Do you have to have a blue disabled parking sign, or one painted on the floor, or both?

Application is outside an office block on an industrial estate.

[Jim K]

round here a dashed white line around a "car space" worth, then D I S A B L E D written in white along longest edge readable from middle of road

ASCII

| | | | |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _| D I S A B L E D

I think there are variations......

Jim K

[Nightjar]

In a car park or on the road?

On the road, it should be to diagram 1028.3 here

If it is a public highway, you need to apply to the highways authority to put it down.

The following guidance is for car parks:

Colin Bignell

[ARW]

It's nothing more than the serving suggestion given on a microwave meal.

[bert]

In message , The Medway Handyman writes

Who owns the parking space?

[Frank Erskine]

Presumably when the road is covered in snow, restrictions are lifted...

[Gazz]

Not sure it really matters, most people ignore them anyway.

[Nightjar]

I imagine it has more to do with being seen to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act.

Colin Bignell

[The Medway Handyman]

The people who own the office block.

[bert]

Then I don't think there is anything mandatory about he way they mark their disabled parking bays. However it is advisable to mark the bay with the recognised road sign on the floor and then if suitable location exists put up a sign on a pole.

As per another post people are all to ready to abuse the system at the slightest excuse.

[bert]

In message , Gazz writes

Most people respect them It's the few selfish pillocks who ignore them giving the impression that most people ignore them. Those who can't be arsed to walk a couple of yards extra - and I am not a blue badge holder BTW

[charles]

I have a copy of the relevant BS in front of me. The sign on a post is recommended "to identify parking space when road markings are obscured eg by snow or fallen leaves".

[polygonum]

It is my impression that more people respect them when the whole thing has been done properly and you can see real disabled people using them. Some of the older "slop a bit of paint on the ground 'ere Jim" bays of yesteryear did not get much respect.

Places like B&Q where you literally could not tell which bays were for disabled - they had worn paint markings - but so too did many other bays which had in the past been disabled bays. You really couldn't tell which were current.

[fred]

In article , bert writes

I had a chat with the security guard at a Lidl supermarket about enforcement when I saw a few being mis-occupied. He advised that they've been told not to enforce them after verbal punch ups with the fat, mouthy slags that seem to be the worst offenders. Too much trouble apparently.

[The Medway Handyman]

Thanks.

[fred]

In article , charles writes

Does it give any indication whether post signage is mandatory? A Glasgow (council) enforcement bod has advised me that they have to rely on goodwill and ones w/o signs aren't enforceable (none have signs here).

[charles]

a BS is only mandatory if someone (such as a local authority) says so.

[bert]

There are some here outside a long-closed MFI and they are still respected.

[ARW]

The security guards need to be armed with salad.