A disabled parking bay is outlined on the road with white lines and enables you to park near to your house.

However, anyone with a Blue Badge can park in any disabled bay, even if it is outside your house - with or without your permission.

To qualify for a Disabled Parking Bay, you must:

• Hold a current Blue Badge
• Demonstrate a genuine need for the bay being requested
• Not have access to private parking within or near the premises

If you meet all of the above please complete our Disabled Parking Bay Application Form.

We will make every effort to deal with applications as quickly as possible.

However, putting in parking places involves consultation with local people and statutory bodies and in certain cases the production and publication of Traffic Regulation Orders.

An application for an advisory bay to be introduced, where no objections are received, will take between 3 and 6 months to process.

Applications that receive objections are subject to additional checks which may include an assessment of the applicants needs by Social services prior to a decision being taken by the Council on the application.

There are 3 different types of Disabled Parking Bay, these are:

An Advisory Disabled Bay

This type of bay is introduced in most cases where the application is successful and is for a bay close to a persons home. Although this type of bay is not enforceable it has proved very successful in the majority of cases in providing the blue badge holder with an improved facility to park close to their home. This type of bay is quicker to introduce as no Traffic Regulation Order is required.

A Mandatory Disabled Bay

This type of bay does require the introduction of a Traffic Regulation Order and therefore usually takes longer to introduce, but this type of bay is enforceable. Bays for general use of blue badge holders close to hospitals, clinics, doctors surgeries, chemists or other public buildings are usually of this type. In addition advisory bays that suffer regular misuse can be changed to mandatory bays to allow enforcement.

A Dedicated Disabled Parking Bay

This type of bay is for blue badge holders who are also permit holders and is restricted to use in specific areas covered by permit parking schemes or at locations where use by other blue badge holders is likely to occur regularly to the disamenity of the applicants.