Disabled parking bay dimensions?

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Disabled parking bay dimensions?

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Is there a minimum useable carriageway that has to be left to pass a disabled parking bay that was painted parallel to the kerb?
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Very Short Username wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 14:44 Is there a minimum useable carriageway that has to be left to pass a disabled parking bay that was painted parallel to the kerb?
A disabled parking space is the same size as a normal space but with additional area around the perimeter - if it's on the carriageway I'd suggest that no additional width is needed.
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Paint it 45 feet long and mark it "Loading Only", you can guarantee there'll be a blue badge smack in the middle of it within 30 seconds.

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Ruperts Trooper wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 16:47
Very Short Username wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 14:44 Is there a minimum useable carriageway that has to be left to pass a disabled parking bay that was painted parallel to the kerb?
A disabled parking space is the same size as a normal space but with additional area around the perimeter - if it's on the carriageway I'd suggest that no additional width is needed.
The standard size for a UK parking bay is 2.4 m wide and 4.8 m long. Pity thsat the Range Rover Sport is 2.047 m wide (mirrors folded in) and 5.052 m long.
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Problem I have is the council painted a disabled space opposite the gable end of my house, it's a tight street so it pushes passing vehicles towards my house. The roof overhangs the road slightly at the gable end, and has done for 100 years, until the other day. An ambulance squeezed passed the car in the disabled space and damaged the roof.
I was curious to know if there's is supposed to be a minimum width of road left to pass a disabled space or not?
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Very Short Username wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 01:34 Problem I have is the council painted a disabled space opposite the gable end of my house, it's a tight street so it pushes passing vehicles towards my house. The roof overhangs the road slightly at the gable end, and has done for 100 years, until the other day. An ambulance squeezed passed the car in the disabled space and damaged the roof.
I was curious to know if there's is supposed to be a minimum width of road left to pass a disabled space or not?
At the risk of upsetting your disabled neighbour, complain to the council AND the police that the parked vehicle is causing an obstruction - as obstruction is a police matter, not a parking offence and any concession for disabled parking requires that no obstruction is caused.
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If there's less than 3m for vehicles to pass the the space shouldn't be there. The general presumption in the UK (TSM Ch. 5 and 6) is that except at approaches to traffic signals in low speed urban situations the clear path for vehicles is 3m minimum.
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Ruperts Trooper wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 07:34
Very Short Username wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 01:34 Problem I have is the council painted a disabled space opposite the gable end of my house, it's a tight street so it pushes passing vehicles towards my house. The roof overhangs the road slightly at the gable end, and has done for 100 years, until the other day. An ambulance squeezed passed the car in the disabled space and damaged the roof.
I was curious to know if there's is supposed to be a minimum width of road left to pass a disabled space or not?
At the risk of upsetting your disabled neighbour, complain to the council AND the police that the parked vehicle is causing an obstruction - as obstruction is a police matter, not a parking offence and any concession for disabled parking requires that no obstruction is caused.
The ideal solution would be to stop up the end of the road, it's more of a lane at that point and would solve all the issues.
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Very Short Username wrote: Tue Mar 22, 2022 00:40
Ruperts Trooper wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 07:34
Very Short Username wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 01:34 Problem I have is the council painted a disabled space opposite the gable end of my house, it's a tight street so it pushes passing vehicles towards my house. The roof overhangs the road slightly at the gable end, and has done for 100 years, until the other day. An ambulance squeezed passed the car in the disabled space and damaged the roof.
I was curious to know if there's is supposed to be a minimum width of road left to pass a disabled space or not?
At the risk of upsetting your disabled neighbour, complain to the council AND the police that the parked vehicle is causing an obstruction - as obstruction is a police matter, not a parking offence and any concession for disabled parking requires that no obstruction is caused.
The ideal solution would be to stop up the end of the road, it's more of a lane at that point and would solve all the issues.
Depending on what's on the other side of the road, would it make more sense to have the marked disabled bay on *your* side of the road? Presuming your disabled neighbour drives a normal sized car, this would actually protect your roof, and if there is no similar high-level obstruction on the other side of the road, taller vehicles would be able to pass.

Fire engines and dust carts are about the same size and, along with smaller police vehicles and ambulances, are the only vehicles that absolutely must have access right now, when they get there. It makes sense therefore that the benchmark for both motorists who park and for councils marking out spaces or applying restrictions should be "can you drive a bin wagon down here?"
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Very Short Username wrote: Mon Mar 21, 2022 01:34 Problem I have is the council painted a disabled space opposite the gable end of my house, it's a tight street so it pushes passing vehicles towards my house. The roof overhangs the road slightly at the gable end, and has done for 100 years, until the other day. An ambulance squeezed passed the car in the disabled space and damaged the roof.
I would argue that's the bigger issue. Is there a height warning sign for your overhanging roof? If not, I think the highway authority needs to do something about it - either putting up an appropriate sign, or narrowing the carriageway so it doesn't pass under your roof (bollards, a kerb etc) - which I think would then make it obvious that the road is too narrow for a parking space there.
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