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Blue Badge Scheme

The Blue Badge Scheme provides a range of parking benefits for disabled people who travel either as drivers or as passengers.  The scheme operates across the UK and in the European Union.

 

The concessions apply to on-street parking and include free use of parking meters and pay-and-display bays. Badge holders may also be exempt from limits on parking times imposed on others and can park for up to three hours on a single yellow line as long as they are not causing an obstruction (except where there is a ban on loading or unloading or other restrictions).  

 

The Blue Badge scheme does not apply to off-street car parks, private roads or at most airports.

 

You may qualify for a Blue Badge if you:

• receive the higher rate of the Mobility Component of the Disability Living Allowance
• receive a War Pensioner's Mobility Supplement
• use a motor vehicle supplied by a government health department
• are a registered blind person
• have a severe disability in both upper limbs and drive a motor vehicle regularly but cannot turn the steering wheel by hand even if that wheel is fitted with a turning knob
• have a permanent and substantial disability which causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty in walking

You do not have to drive to qualify for a Blue Badge; you can use it for travelling in any vehicle providing you are in that vehicle at that time.

 

The purpose of the Scheme is to allow you to visit shops and other places.  You must ensure that you use your badge with care and attention to the rules.

 

Your local council will decide if you are eligible for a badge.  There is no right of appeal against their decision if you do not meet the eligibility conditions.