From: usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk 
  
 On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 09:15:32 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk 
  wrote: 
  
 >Blue badges are issued for mental conditions. Personally I don't agree, 
 >but here you are. 
  
 The mental health eligibility criteria for a blue badge includes things like 
 agoraphobia, where someone needs to park as close as possible to their 
 destination in order to minimise the distress of being in an unenclosed 
 environment, and cognitive impairments which significantly increase a 
 person's risk factor as a pedestrian. Both of those are genuine mental 
 disabilities which can be genuinely mitigated by having a blue badge (and 
 bearing in mind here that a blue badge is allocated to the person with a 
 disability, but they can be the passenger rather than the driver). 
  
 However, a mobility scooter would be of no benefit to either of those groups 
 of people. Someone with agoraphobia will suffer just as badly on a scooter 
 as when walking, their problem is a lack of enclosure not a lack of 
 mobility. And someone who is unsafe as a pedestrian because of cognitive 
 impairment will be unsafe on a scooter, too. 
  
 There are, therefore, genuine reasons why someone with a mental condition 
 may be eligible for a blue badge, but would not be eligible for a mobility 
 scooter. And it is actually quite hard to get a blue badge for a purely 
 mental condition, you do need to show that the condition affects your 
 ability to walk safely and without significant distress as a pedestrian. 
  
 Mark 
  
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