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Action over misuse of Barton-upon-Humber club's disabled parking
A school is introducing measures to stop people misusing its disabled parking comes after members of Barton Inclusive Football Club, based at Baysgarth Sports Village in Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire, reported difficulties and suffering verbal abuse while trying to use the new measures include a reporting system to highlight offenders, improved signs, patrols and community founder Sophie Bartup said: "For our players and some of our volunteers, being able to park close to the pitch is essential." The club, which has more than 300 members and 50 volunteers, caters for people with additional needs or long-term mental health difficulties, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service."We work really hard to create a safe and welcoming environment for everyone," Ms Bartup said."We've been experiencing challenges at the site due to the misuse of disabled parking bays."What may not seem a big thing to some people, to us as a club and to our players it's really important that they feel they can park safely." 'Deeply concerned' The sports village is part of Baysgarth School, and head teacher Jade Driscoll said: "We are deeply concerned by recent incidents involving non-blue badge holders misusing accessible parking bays on our site, and we are taking proactive steps to address this issue."The school has recently increased the number of accessible parking of people misusing the parking facilities could be shared with the community policing Bartup said the measures taken by the school were appreciated by the club. Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
BBC News
21-05-2025
- BBC News
Barton Inclusive Football Club's plea over use of blue badge bays
An inclusive football club in North Lincolnshire has appealed for people not to misuse disabled parking bays at its training Inclusive Football Club's welfare officer Lynn Green said the extent of the misuse came to light when a volunteer reported being verbally abused after asking someone to move on Monday evening."She was quite distressed, and went back to the session, where a lot of the players said this had been going on for weeks," Ms Green club runs its sessions at Baysgarth Sports Village – a community-use facility attached to Baysgarth School, which is administered by North Lincolnshire Council. Both have been approached for comment. Ms Green said: "It's [normal for them] that those disabled bays which are a lifeline for some people are just used by other people, so they don't even bother mentioning it."That really shocked us. As an able-bodied person you may think subconsciously that a disabled person wouldn't be accessing any kind of sporting activity, but that's not the case."She said the club wanted to raise awareness of the importance of the disabled spaces, and appealed for people to challenge those they were with if they used the spaces incorrectly. Some players have since reported having to park a 20-minute walk away from the venue, she added."That's not really conducive to them accessing a session that is designed by its very nature to being inclusive."It is impacting the people who come to our session in a very negative way – a lot more than we had realised." Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here.
