Carnegie thinks that this is a difficult one.
"THE ENLARGED Kingsgate shopping centre has been condemned for charging for the use of its disabled parking bays. A disabled person, who did not want to be identified, criticised the disabled parking facilities at the shopping centre. And a leading disability worker was also critical, and claimed the introduction of charges for the disabled came without warning."
The disabled clearly have to make more use of their cars to get around than others, but is the fact that one shopping centre doesn't provide free disabled parking bays really make much difference? Anyone who takes a stroll along Dunfermline's main shopping street will find it littered with cars with blue badges in their windows and the disabled get to make more flexible use of other parking areas and indeed on street parking than anyone else. Carnegie thinks that the lack of free parking bays in one place really won't make much of a difference.
