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 On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 09:05:48 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk 
  wrote: 
  
 >On Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:04:17 +0100, Mark Goodge wrote: 
 > 
 >> On Sat, 9 Aug 2025 09:15:32 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk 
 >>  wrote: 
 >> 
 >>> [quoted text muted] 
 >> 
 >> 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, with a rather unsympathetic hat on, they *could* physically walk 
 >a distance. 
  
 Someone with, for example, cerebral palsy, could walk the distance. It 
 wouldn't be inpossible, it would just be be bloody difficult. The 
 requirements for both a blue badge and eligibility to use a mobility scooter 
 don't extend to it being impossible to walk the distance. Being bloody 
 difficult is a fair approximation of where the line is drawn. 
  
 Mark 
  
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