disabled parking bays, are they legal
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So here is the quire. My partner stays in a block of housing association flats (places for people)with a car park to the rear. However this "car park" is a road that has been blocked of scince 1980s. It still appears on maps and sat navs as a road with a dead end. So is part of the queens highway. The car park has been segmented into 12 bays, no where near enough for the flats. No one has a allocated bay its a first come first served basses. So few weeks ago 3 disabled bays appeared painted on by the housing association henchmen. There is only 1 disabled person in the whole development. So i phoned the local authority and played stupid and asked if they painted or gave authorization to paint the bays. My response was "WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS". So my question do the housing association have any right to do this,what happens if i park in them ?
tvrgit said:
If this car park is an adopted road, or a road open to access by the public (for example does it have adopted street lights), then it doesn't matter who owns it, who has freehold, nothing else. If it's still a "highway" as per the OP then nobody is allowed to control parking on it except the local authority, and they can only do so by making a Traffic Regulation Order.
the local authority was out last year filling in pot holes. So its clearly still on there maintenance radar. However they know nothing about disabled bays. In fact they said its a road to service the rear of the flats. As there used to be council houses on the grass area at the back of the flatstvrgit said:
If this car park is an adopted road, or a road open to access by the public (for example does it have adopted street lights), then it doesn't matter who owns it, who has freehold, nothing else. If it's still a "highway" as per the OP then nobody is allowed to control parking on it except the local authority, and they can only do so by making a Traffic Regulation Order.
the local authority was out last year filling in pot holes. So its clearly still on there maintenance radar. However they know nothing about disabled bays. In fact they said its a road to service the rear of the flats. As there used to be council houses on the grass area at the back of the flatsdont intend complaining, or parking in them willy nilly. Only when i drop of my wee boy the car park can be full apart from these spaces. So will prob start to use them for dropping of the wee man. Just a typical Scot really, dont like doing what someone tells me unless i REALLY have too 
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