Blue Badge Scheme

Displaying the Blue Badge in your car allows you to park in dedicated parking bays. This helps you park closer to your destination. Even if you don't have a car you can use your Blue Badge in someone else's car, when they drive you somewhere. The eligibility criteria for a Blue Badge is as follows, you:

• Receive the higher rate of mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance.

• Have a permanent and substantial disability which means you are unable to walk or have severe difficulty in walking.

• Are registered blind.

• Use a motor vehicle supplied for disabled people by a Government Health Department.

• Receive a War Pensioners Mobility Supplement.

• Have a severe disability in both upper limbs, regularly drive a motor vehicle but cannot turn the steering wheel of a motor vehicle by hand even if that wheel if fitted with a turning knob.

• Are a child under two years of age, who due to a specific medical condition need to travel with bulky or emergency medical equipment at all times.

You can find out more by visiting the Council website or click here to apply directly for a blue badge