Recently, Judith did some research to find all the disabled parking spaces in Keighley town centre.
She arranged with the Town Clerk to have
that information on the Town
Council web-site, but here is another copy so you don't need to look any further.
As at January 2009, there are are about 25 Blue Badge Parking Sites in Keighley which are
administered by the District Council:
Cooke Street
4 bays at the side of the road
5/6 spaces in the car park
Church Green:
4/5 spaces (at market end of car park)
Hanover Street:
3 spaces in a bay near rear of Post Office
Cavendish Street Car Park:
9 spaces for blue badge holders
Hanover Street (On the Shopping Centre side):
2/3 blue badge spaces
Low Street:
Seems to have some discretionary blue badge parking, but it may not be official.
Scott Street Car Park:
4 spaces
Cliffe Castle Museum:
2 blue badge spaces in the car park
2/3 by the museum (Spaces by museum are exclusively for disabled people)
By law privately owned car parks used by the public have to provide a percentage of the total
number as designated Blue Badge parking spaces. The rule is 4% of total plus four spaces.
Morrison's Market Car Park (privately owned, formerly council owned):
5 blue badge spaces
Airedale Centre Multi-Storey Car Park (privately owned):
20 spaces on varying floors
In addition there are some spaces for disabled people at all the supermarkets:
Morrisons; Sainsburys; Netto; and Aldi
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