The ‘new’ Town Centre in Bordon is a marvel for Disabled Parking: The two spaces nearest the little shopping mall (called ‘The Shed’ – why?) are set so that nobody can use them because there’s a high-kerbed pavement running 10ft behind the bays so you can’t turn in or reverse out. You’d actually have to slide the car in sideways, and I’m afraid my Stunt Driving just isn’t up to it. DH has been driving for over 30 years and he couldn’t do it in my Golf.
But it’s irrelevant really, because The Shed is surrounded by a wall and, again inexplicably, positioned at the bottom of a hole with a 4ft drop that is only accessible via four sets of steps – unless you go about . . . 200 meters down the road and around the corner from the unusable Disabled Parking spaces, where there is an elevator to provide wheelchair access to The Shed, but no parking, disabled or otherwise.
It’s really quite impressive just how bad it is. If you watch the video, note the complete absence of wheelchairs, mobility scooters, walking sticks, elderly people, pushchairs and babies – from a town that’s awash with them. . .