City calls for rethink over disabled rules

03 September 2009

Aberdeen City Council has joined forces with COSLA and the Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland (SCOTS) to call for a review of Scotland’s new disabled parking legislation.

The three organisations are putting pressure on the Scottish Government to rethink the new law, which will come into force from 1 October 2009.

According to the council, the cost of meeting the new requirements would result in a significant rise in costs for local authorities.

There are about 1,300 advisory on-street disabled parking bays outside the homes of disabled people in Aberdeen, and the council estimates that replacing them with new regulatory spaces for any blue badge holder would cost £400,000 alone.

Deputy council leader Kevin Stewart said: ‘We need to take the common sense approach and point out the flaws in all this.’

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