Local elections 2023: Will York's 'blue badge ban' help Labour turn city red?

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Labour are hoping anger over disabled parking restrictions will cost York's Lib Dem-Green coalition.

The council said it was acting on the guidance of police to mitigate against the threat of a vehicle terror attack in York, a tourist hotspot which attracts more than 8 million visitors a year.

Even the Greens, who voted through the policy, have called for a review to establish whether some of the city centre's vehicle access routes could be opened up to disabled people. A number of people who the BBC spoke to in York city centre raised the subject of blue badge parking unprompted. None voiced support for the restrictions.

First-time voter Katy Roughton, who works on a city-centre flower stall, said she felt the blue badge restrictions were "very discriminatory" and had led to the number of disabled people in the area "dwindling".

 

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