Blodwyn Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 I gather it takes months to actually get the badge. I'm thinking of applying for OH who is increasingly weak and likely to get much worse in future.Is it very complicated - as just about every other admin. procedure is in France? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 I have one, although I have now given up driving.It took months and was associated with being recognised an handicapped.Procédure et démarchesLa demande doit être adressée à la MDPH (maison départementale des personnes handicapées) du département de résidence du demandeur. Elle doit être accompagnée d'un certificat médical établi à cette fin. Le médecin qui l'établit doit ainsi remplir un formulaire de demande de carte handicapé. Différentes pièces doivent être jointes au dossier : Le formulaire de demande, qui est accessible en ligne : télécharger le cerfa 13788 Une photocopie d'une pièce d'identité Une photographie d'identité couleur Un justificatif de domicile.http://droit-finances.commentcamarche.net/faq/20580-carte-de-stationnement-pour-handicape-faire-une-demande Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 It might be easier to get one in the UK. My wife got one a year ago (big problems walking). Being a blue badge it's valid all over Europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blodwyn Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 Not sure he'll ever have the energy to go to the UK again and we won't be registered with a GP there. It seems odd the hospital here can't sign the application as they know all about him and agree it would be a good idea. I guess he'll need to visit the GP; he hardly ever goes. Last time I saw him he said ' well everyone has to die of something and people don't die of this.' He's wrong there as they certainly do, I've known of several, not all old people either. Lovely person apart from that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereford Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 My Dad has one (aged 93 with a bad heart but not "disabled" as such). Sealed special questionnaire from the doctor and completed form* to be sent off. Then wait two months (in Manche anyway) then when they say OK send photo. Badge then comes within days.Seems a bit longwinded but well worth the effort.*Form (when we did it two years or so ago) covered all sorts of things and one had to pick out the bits that were relevant - not user friendly. The Mairies are helpful if you find the form difficult - or so I am told - although we had no problem with the form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blodwyn Posted April 30, 2017 Author Share Posted April 30, 2017 I downloaded forms from the Internet. GP completed his bit and we took them along to the appropriate office with the proof of address etc. Ironically, it's hard to find parking anywhere nearby. I preferred to go in person as there's always some complication and a friend posted two applications with no response. Surprise! There was now a different, very long form for the GP, luckily he's a friend and was very patient. Back to the office, all OK and the receptionist vigorously stamped every page. GP marked it urgent but we don't expect to hear very soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyn_Paul Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Blue pass arrived yet Blodwyn? From memory ours took about 6 weeks from the visit to the office until it arrived.First thing I did was make a duplicate for the other car, yet between putting it in handbags (when travelling with friends) and burying it in the glove box, because it won't sit on the dashboard when you are on the move, we still manage to arrive places without it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 I have just noticed that it is only valid for 5 years. Mine will expire next year, so given the time it takes to get one I will start applying well before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blodwyn Posted June 1, 2017 Author Share Posted June 1, 2017 Six weeks? Ha ha! Not in Tarn et Garonne. We only took the form in 2 months ago, marked 'urgent' by our GP as OH has terminal cancer. Last year a friend (who has little French) asked me to go with him to enquire about his application as it had been three months since he sent it in. The response was ' Oh no, far too soon, maybe 6 months'.When/if it's approved we then have to send in photos.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Wiggy Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 I have seen these blue badges for sale from Amazon co.uk for around £2.50, I will be applying for a blue badge and what I need to find out is, am l entitle to park outside my own house. The reason I ask is I live in a village square where other people are permitted to park, at present there are three cars parked across the frontage of my house, but once I have a blue badge, would I have priority over others to park, continuing on this line, as I'm quite often in need of an ambulance to rush me to hospital, but on the last occasion it took nearly twenty minutes for for the ambulance to get close enough to my front door and get me in the ambulance because of the cars parked directly outside my house. What is the legal situation in cases like mine where access is limited because of these vehicles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 I think what you get on amazon for that price is a blue badge HOLDER!A blue badge simply means you can use the special parking spaces that are reserved for disabled people. Only blue badge holders may use these spaces. It doesn't give you priority over other road users in other parking spaces and it doesn't entitle you to park where parking isn't normally allowed.You can't stop people parking outside your house if it's a public highway with no parking restrictions in force. If you think parking restrictions are needed, you need to approach the mairie and explain the problem. If emergency access is being impeded by parked cars then you have a good case. Otherwise, I guess all you can do is make the situation known to your neighbours and hope they do the neighbourly thing. But parking on a residential street lined with houses will inevitably involve parking in front of somebody's house, there's not much you can do about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 You do see parking spaces reserved for handicapés, but I think I have only seen them at, for example, a supermarket, tourist attraction, etc. In my residential street in the U.K. there is one outside the home of a very disabled neighbour, but I have never seen a similar situation in France. Also, I suppose ANYbody with a blue badge could in theory park there, not just him.I agree, it’s worth asking at the Mairie, but not sure you will get anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Wiggy Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Loiseau.My main concern is about lack of access for the ambulances, when people park across the frontage of my house, and as i said it took the ambulance ten minutes to get close enough to my door. Then they needed to get the stretcher through the door and put an oxygen feed on me from bottle set me on the stretcher.and into the ambulance.Because of the delay the Pompier's had contacted the Gendarmerie and got a motorcycle escort to the City hospital. Unfortunately this is now becoming a regular problem as it turned out to be fluid on the lungs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 From what you say, it sounds as if the ambulance can't simply double-park next to the cars directly outside your door, and take the stretcher through a suitable gap between parked cars. Is it because the cars park too close together? Would a couple of strategically-placed bollards outside your door do the trick?Our mairie was very obliging about putting up a bollard for a house near me that's on the corner of a ruelle with no pavement, and kept getting clouted when vans took the corner too wide. It solved the problem, if vans hit anything now they hit the bollard, but it seems to have made them more careful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Wiggy Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 ET. The people who park there are new arrivals to the village who live in some apartments are very 10.isorganized lot at parking. Before they arrived the ambulace's could reverse right up to my front door and wheel the stretcher straight into my front room. As I have previously said, with all the cars parked across the frontage of my house there is no direct access to my house for the ambulance. Prior to these three people arriving, it was quite normal for four cars to be parked outside of my house while they where going to mass. This problem does needs to be sorted with the Maire, it's not my time to kick the bucket just yet so I don't want some other berk to be the reason!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EuroTrash Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Fair enough but ambulances can't always reverse right up to people's front doors, some people have no drive but instead a garden with only a footpath through it, many people live in upstairs flats, and in such cases stretchers are wheeled whatever distance is necessary, including into lifts and along corridors. I'm just trying to get my head round why the ambulance spent 20 minutes manoeuvring in the street, rather than park as near as practically possible as soon as it arrived and spend a minute or so wheeling the stretcher between the parked cars and across the pavement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Wiggy Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 ET, I don't think I ever mentioned being on a street, I actually live on a large square in the centre of a village. The square has two rows of houses, one is from the lower part, then the upper part has several more houses plus the village hall. In between the upper and lower sections is an alley which is about half way? On the top side of the alley is a B&B which always has cars parked outside The driver then has to drive up to the alley then turn right in front of the B&B to be able to try and reverse down what is a footpath until he reaches my front door. then they have to manoeuvre the stretcher from the ambulance and into my front door then throw me onto the stretcher and manoeuvre me into the back of the ambulance. All this takes time, 20+ minutes to be exact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomoss Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 [quote user="NormanH"]I have just noticed that it is only valid for 5 years........[/quote]That's obviously because so many handicapped people go to Lourdes and miraculously recover[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereford Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 You don't have to be "disabled" to get a blue badge. A long term illness that makes walking difficult can be enough if your doctor agrees and writes the obligatory form (ours has it on his computer). A friend with back problems has been given a badge but will, he hopes, not need to renew it. My dad (95) has one that dates from heart problems and runs out next year. At his age we hope he will get a renewal but certainly not so essential now.Stupid form to fill in though that seems to cover lots of problems and mentions disability and children too but not only they can get a badge. Just fill the form in carefully or get help from the Mairie.The badge would not help the poster who wants a space left outside his house, get the Maire involved! He wants your vote.Mrs H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Wiggy Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 Hi, Hereford.In my particular situation every six months I get a build-up of fluid on the lungs which is quite a dangerous situation to be in, so obviously time is indeed very important to get the patient to hospital asap but in this last case because of the three cars parked across the frontage of my house they couldn't reverse to my door. Normally if there isn't any cars parked the ambulance can get right up to my front door then wheel the stretcher straight into my house. However this last time there wasn't any direct access so the driver had to find an access point further away and then reverse down past the houses to my house by means of the footpath. then because the ambulance and my door are at right angles it was a struggle to remove the stretcher and into my house, I was then placed on the stretcher and with a struggle got me into the ambulance. This took almost twenty minutes before we moved off to the hospital, and again we had to have a Gendarmerie escort to the hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereford Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 As I said a parking blue badge will be of no help to you at all. I am surprised that the ambulance people have not complained to the Mairie so that "no parking" notices can be installed. Would the ambulance people give you a letter for the mairie - or indeed the gendarmes?I will you well and hope that the situation can be improved.Mrs H., Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted July 5, 2018 Share Posted July 5, 2018 MrWiggy, do you feel you can tackle the B&B owners direct and ask them to stop their clients parking across your access? Otherwise the Mairie/Hôtel de Ville has to be the way forward. Maybe someone there would speak to the B&B owners on your behalf, or get some "no parking" stripes/words painted on the street surface to ensure the access is kept free.When it is blocked, can the ambulance staff not move you by any other method other than on a stretcher? I remember UK ambulance staff moving my husband down a flight of stairs from the first floor out to their vehicle on a sort of chair arrangement that they had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Wiggy Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Mrs H.Thank you for you good wishes, I certainly appreciate them.I did a research on the subject of fluid on the lungs to discover that, if not treat asap it could be well fatal. That's why the Gendarmes motorcycle escort certainly made a big difference in getting me to the hospital that much quicker.So I will be writing to the Maire to make this very point. I don't think that he would allow any vehicles to block direct access to my front door considering the urgency that is involved. He is a very popular man and gets things done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Wiggy Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 Loiseau.It's nothing to do with the B&B, it's the vehicles parked directly in front of my house that are blocking the ambulances access to my front door. As I said to Mrs H that because of this illness (fluid on the lungs, it needs to be treated ASAP. so direct access to my front door would save a lot of time because this can be a fatal illness if not treated asap.The Maire is a very obliging gent so now doubt he will allow a hadicape space outside of my front door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCCMB Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 If the Mayor does allow such a space, Mr Wiggy, it may well not solve your problem.Anyone with a disabled badge will be within theirrights to park there. It could be that next timeyou are taken ill there's a disabled person parked outside your door...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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