Blue Badge

Description

The Blue Badge scheme provides a range of parking benefits for disabled people who travel either as drivers or as passengers. The scheme operates throughout the UK.

Having a Blue Badge helps people who have difficuly in walking to park close to their destination, either as a passenger or driver. However, the badge is only valid for on-street parking and does not automatically apply to other car parks (such as those belonging to the Local Authority, supermarkets, etc) or on privately owned roads, at airports for instance. Issuing of the badge is governed by legislation and people have to meet the criteria. The scheme applies to people with a disability that affects their walking significantly. Inspire has the responsibility for issuing Blue Badges to people of all ages with disabilities on behalf of the London Borough of Bexley.

You may qualify if you:

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

In Bexley Inspire Community Trust issues Blue Badges on behalf of Bexley Council

Further valuable information about the Blue Badge scheme is available from the Department of Transport and for those living in London from Transport for London

Address

Inspire Community Trust
20 Whitehall Lane
Slade Green
Kent
DA8 2DH

Contact

Tel: 020 3045 5329