FOI request (FOIR-127511750)

Disabled Parking

Requested Fri 28 June 2019
Responded Tue 16 July 2019

I would like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information act:

1. Do you have any plans to expand the number of dedicated Blue Badge parking spaces in your local authority area?

2. The current number of dedicated Blue Badge parking spaces in your local authority area

3. The current number of Blue Badge holders registered in your local authority area

4. The number of drivers who have received a fine for misusing a disabled parking bay in your local authority area (broken down by month for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 to date)

5. The new eligibility criteria for Blue Badge holders in your local authority, following the announcement of the expansion of the scheme (https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/blue-badge-parking-hidden-disabilities-department-transport-news/) to include invisible medical conditions announced in June 2019.

Response

1. Hastings Borough Council has no plans to increase the number of dedicated disabled parking bays in our car parks. We do not hold on street parking information, it was transferred to ESCC from 1 April 2013, please visit their website for further information www.eastsussex.gov.uk

2. In the Hastings Borough Council owned car parks there are 102 disabled spaces. We do not hold on street parking information, it was transferred to ESCC from 1 April 2013, please visit their website for further information www.eastsussex.gov.uk

3. Information not held - please contact East Sussex County Council, please visit their website for further information www.eastsussex.gov.uk

4. Penalty Charge Notices issued in Hastings Borough Council owned car parks for contravention 87 which is 'parked in a designated disabled persons parking place without displaying a valid disabled persons badge in the prescribed manner'. We do not hold on street parking information, it was transferred to ESCC from 1 April 2013, please visit their website for further information www.eastsussex.gov.uk

2016-2017 = 116, April - 10, May - 4, June - 10, July - 12, August - 25, September - 3, October - 12, November - 9, December - 8, January - 7, February - 9, March - 7

2017-2018 = 86, April - 15, May - 7, June - 9, July - 5, August - 8, September - 9, October - 6, November - 5, December - 4, January - 4, February - 8, March - 6

2018-2019 = 117, April - 7, May - 14, June - 13, July - 16, August - 10, September - 16, October - 4, November - 11, December - 3, January - 5, February - 9, March - 9

2019 to June 2019 = 43, April - 16, May - 14, June - 13

5. We do not hold this information. Please contact East Sussex County Council, please visit their website for further information www.eastsussex.gov.uk