ePetition - Disabled Parking Access in City Centre

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Disabled Parking Access in City Centre

We the undersigned petition Brighton & Hove Council to assess and improve the newly installed cycle lanes in the city centre/Laines against amount of removed disabled parking access. Assess and improve the safety for disabled persons emerging from vans/cars directly into cycle lanes on Hove Lawns. Reopen spaces currently closed to traffic to disabled badge holders, including but not limited to: Madeira Drive Enforce parking violations by fining those who park in disabled bays with no badge.

Disabled access to the city has been severely reduced and in some cases made more dangerous by the introduction of cycle lanes across the city.

This petition calls for the council to make proper accommodations for the loss of accessibility to disabled persons and improve their access to the city.

Proper care should be taken to ensure that these spaces are safe and appropriate for those who need more assistance entering and exiting vehicles.

This ePetition ran from 19/08/2020 to 28/09/2020 and has now finished.

43 people signed this ePetition.

Council response

Response provided at the Environment, Transport & Sustainability Committee on 29 September 2020

"Thank you for raising this important issue that I’m sure you’ll appreciate is also being addressed in other parts of the agenda today, so I hope you will be able to listen to the debates upcoming.

With the need to respond quickly to coming out of lockdown many changes to the city have been implemented. In some cases, this has meant that disabled parking has been altered or moved although every effort has been made to either increase or at least maintain current provision. However, I do acknowledge that it hasn’t always created the conditions of inclusion that we would want all disabled people in our city to feel.

Many of the changes are temporary and continue to be monitored and an update will be presented within a report on our agenda today. Having only taken control of the running of the council some weeks ago, I do want to stress that this is a major concern for us, and I do want to let you know that we are focused on now working actively working with a number of disability groups to try to ensure that access for the mobility impaired is maintained, and please be assured that listening to the disabled community is a high priority for us".

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