CALL TO CLARIFY PERMITTED PARKING WITHIN BRIGG PEDESTRIAN AREA

North Lincolnshire Council provides parking bays for use by disabled drivers visiting Brigg town centre.
A dozen-or-so spaces are located in the Old Courts Road car park, as close as possible to the town's main shopping area.
Brigg Blog took the above picture after reading an exchange of views over disabled parking in the latest issue of Brigg Matters Magazine.
There are conflicting opinions on whether or not blue badge holders are authorised to drive vehicles into the pedestrian area to access business premises.
A member of the public who holds a blue badge has told Brigg Matters that North Lincolnshire Council's "parking services" confirmed to him that disabled drivers CAN enter the pedestrian area for a limited period.
However, Ken Harrison, chairman of Brigg Matters, in a footnote to this letter, points out that regulations drawn up when the pedestrian area was created in the mid-1990s "indicate that badged disabled drivers are not automatically entitled to the access provision."
Brigg Blog thinks it would help if North Lincolnshire Council and/or the police clarified the situation with a definitive statement.
Perhaps this could be done through the Brigg & Wolds Neighbourhood Action Team, on which the council and the force have representation.
New signs explaining disabled driver access (or lack of it) should also be displayed at entrances to the pedestrian-only zone, we suggest.
If the powers-that-be agree that blue badge holders can drive into the traffic-free zone, will that affect the existing disabled bays marked out in the Old Courts Road car park?