It would be preferable if both application and payment could be made online. There's a non-refundable administrative fee of £11.
To apply for a disabled parking bay you can:
Contact us
To get a paper application form, or to pay the £11 non-refundable administration fee to process an application:
Who can get a disabled parking bay?
Blue badge holders can apply for an on-street parking bay outside or near their homes if they:
- have no off-street parking, such as a garage or driveway
- are the driver or the driver lives with them
Anyone with a blue badge may park in a disabled parking bay, even if they did not request that specific bay.
Application process
Timeline
- controlled parking zone - 1 year or longer
- outside of a controlled parking zone - up to 6 months
Process
- We'll write to you to acknowledge your application.
- We'll visit the site to ensure the bay meets our traffic management criteria.
- If the bay meets our traffic management criteria, we'll put white guidance marks down, unless you live in a controlled parking area.
- We'll write to you to tell you whether we've approved the bay.
- We'll tell our contractors to put in advisory bay markings - this can take 4 to 6 weeks depending on the weather.