Blue Badge Parking Scheme
Summary
Blue parking badges allow cars carrying people who are registered blind or people who have severe walking difficulties to be parked near shops, stations and other facilities.
Blue badges replaced the orange badge scheme. Orange badges will continue to be recognised until they expire.
A range of people are eligible for Blue Badges including :
- People who are registered blind
- People who receive the higher rate of the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance
- People who use a motor vehicle supplied for disabled people by a government health department
- People who receive a government grant towards their vehicles
- People who a War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement
- People who have a permanent and substantial disability that makes walking impossible or very difficult
- People who 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 is fitted with a turning knob
- Parents of disabled children over two years old and under 16 years.
- Blue Badges can also be issued to an organisation which transports disabled people.
Further Information
Blue parking badges are issued by Lancashire County Council. Full details, including online application, can be found on their Blue Badges page.
Contact details for the blue badge scheme can be found below, or write to:
Blue Badge Application Service
Customer Service Centre
Lancashire County Council, Red Rose Hub, Bluebell Way
Fulwood
Preston
Lancashire
PR2 5PZ