Hose pipe ban

[lavenderlux]

We're one of the areas where there will be a hose pipe ban from 5 April.  According to one of my neighbours, anyone who is a blue badge holder will be exempt from the hose pipe ban.  Has anyone else heard this?

My neighbour spends hours using his hose every day in summer, and when everyone else's lawn is parched brown, his is a lush green (and not a weed in it);  he doesn't have a blue badge as he doesn't have a car or anyone to take him out in a car but he's now got the forms to apply - and as he has some health problems he will probably get a blue badge.

[lavenderlux]

[gp.girl]

Surely thats a bit silly if there's an able bodied person in the house?

And it certainly shouldn't be ok for that person to wash the car with the hose (unnessesary task/method) just because someone else is disabled. Even worse if the disabled person can't wash the car anyway so it makes no difference at all? You've got to admit allowing a parent to water their lawn because of a childs disability is truely absurd. Only exception would be path cleaning as this is a safety issue, falling is a real risk and danger while a dirty car, brown lawn and even dead plants is not.

[grannyjanny]

I thought that people in receipt of DLA were exempt but I don't know which component they need to on. SiL was able to water last time there was a ban.

[BarriedaleNick]

Yes  Exemption number two!!

watering a garden attached to a domestic dwelling or watering plants on domestic premises using a hosepipe, by people with severe mobility problems who hold a current Blue Badge as issued by their local authority.

[non-stick]

We're one of the areas where there will be a hose pipe ban from 5 April.  According to one of my neighbours, anyone who is a blue badge holder will be exempt from the hose pipe ban.  Has anyone else heard this?

My neighbour spends hours using his hose every day in summer, and when everyone else's lawn is parched brown, his is a lush green (and not a weed in it);  he doesn't have a blue badge as he doesn't have a car or anyone to take him out in a car but he's now got the forms to apply - and as he has some health problems he will probably get a blue badge.

Hope he gets a meter if he hasn't got one (we are getting compulsory ones soon), sounds a right selfish twonk!

[Mr Smith]

I suppose being exempt because you are a Blue Badge holder means that you are disabled and you cannot carry water in a watering can, fair enough, I think for once I will be able to water with a can if I have to, when I checked the moisture content of my allotment last weekend it was well in the green and you can feel the wet just beneath the surface. also the forecast gives showers for the end of this week and also next week, :)

[green lily]

I checked Anglian waters site. Those with severe moblity probs and blue badge holders like me can use a hose on plants. I really can't carry b'cause of my back. However I do have a water meter and am upgrading my present irrigation[see previous posts] mainly because I don't like waste. BUT people [?gardeners who use water for their job will also be exempt. So my daughter who employs a gardener b'cause of back probs can use the hose but she[ no blue badge] can't...... ::)

[sunloving]

Here in Lancaster the ground is still wet below the surface but we usually have a period of 7 weeks of drought about now anyway.
This week i used the bath water on the newly planted rows for the first time in the year. just need one of those gadgets now to run a hosepipe out of the bathroom window rather than spill half of it on the stairs out of the cumbersome watering cans!

But loving the sunny weather regardless.
x sunloving