Disabled person’s bus pass

Who can apply for a disabled person's bus pass and where you can use it. How to apply for your first pass or get a replacement pass, change your details and update your photograph.

Who can get a disabled person's bus pass

To apply for a disabled person's bus pass, you must be 5 years old or over, live within the Brighton & Hove boundary and meet one or more of the criteria:

  • be blind or partially sighted
  • be profoundly or severely deaf
  • be without speech
  • have a disability, or injury, which has a substantial and long-term effect on your ability to walk
  • have no arms or have long-term loss of the use of both arms
  • have a learning disability, that is, a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind that started before adulthood and includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning
  • would be refused a licence to drive a motor vehicle due to a physical or mental health condition otherwise than on the grounds of persistent misuse of drugs or alcohol

Where you can use your bus pass

Brighton & Hove

You can use your disabled person's bus pass in Brighton & Hove any time of day on weekdays, weekends and Bank Holidays.

Rest of England

You can use your disabled person's bus pass:

  • from 9:30am to 11pm Monday to Friday
  • all day on weekends and bank holidays

Find information about Brighton & Hove night buses.

Where you can not use your bus pass

You can not use your bus pass on trains, sightseeing buses, scheduled coach services, or outside of England.

Get more information

You can visit us in person at one of our help desks in Brighton and Hove for more information.