disabled parking space

[GuavaHalf]

My company is in the process of buying a new office. The current users have a 'disabled' parking space. One of my staff says that a disabeld person can park in the space whether or not they are visiting our office. I say that this is clearly wrong. It is on private property therefore I can restrict the use of the car park to visitors to the office only.
Does anyone know who is correct. If you have a reference even better.
thanks.

[Lillabet]

Assuming that the car park is off the street then you are right. In a privately owned car park the usage is set by the owner of the car park. In this case the company.

I think your employee is confused with the rights relating to on street parking which come under the blue badge scheme.

Here's a link: http://www.direct.gov.uk/Audiences/DisabledPeople/Motoring/Parking/ParkingArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4001061&chk=mLwh/N

Hope this helps

[mackydm]

i can'not say for sure whether or not a disabled person has the right or not to park in the space you are concerned about. but i think the likelyhood of many disabled drivers using it on private property is remote to say the least.and if they are disabled would it really bother you that much.

[GuavaHalf]

mackydm - this was just an internal office discussion so the answers to your questions are yes its remote and no I would not mind.

[flaming]

Blue Badges for the disabled are given out by the Borough in which the badgeholder lives, and pertain only to the highways in that Borough. Entitlement to park varies from Borough to Borough, and relates to the public roads in that Borough. Badgeholders have spaces reserved for them at shopping centre car parks as there is a legal requirement for  such firms to provide spaces for CUSTOMER use, as indeed is provided at your new office.  It is very nice that you wouldn't mind but just suppose you had a disabled visitor and the designated space  was already occupied by another disabled person who is not a visitor to your office?  Anyway, the idea is that a person who can't walk far should be near their destination, thus you would probably attract only those disabled persons who want to come into your building.