Parking permits (blue badge)
How do you get a 'Blue Badge'?
The Blue Badge Scheme is designed to help people with severe mobility problems who travel either as drivers or passengers, by allowing them to park close to their destination. You can get a badge if you:
- receive the higher rate of the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance
- receive a War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement
- are registered blind
- have a severe disability in both upper limbs, regularly drive a motor vehicle but cannot turn the steering wheel of a vehicle by hand even if it is fitted with a turning knob, or you regularly drive a non adapted car but cannot operate, or have considerable difficulty in operating, all or some types of parking meter
- have a permanent and substantial disability, which means you are unable to walk or have very considerable difficulty in walking.
- children under the age of two will only qualify if due to a specific medical condition, they need to travel with bulky medical equipment or be close to a vehicle for emergency medical treatment. In such cases the badge will expire the day after the child's second birthday.
If you are a Barnet resident and a blue badge holder and parking congestion makes it difficult to park close to your home, you may be able to apply for a disabled badge holders' parking place to be designated near your home.
For further information, please follow the link for the explanatory booklet on Blue Badge Scheme from Department of Transport. If you think your qualify for a Blue Badge, you need to complete a Blue Badge application form:
- Blue Badge scheme application form
(PDF: 118KB) or - Tel: 020 8359 4131 or
- Email: assisted.travel@barnet.gov.uk
You can also collect a form from one of these three locations:
- First Contact, The Town Hall, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BG
- Reception, Barnet House, 1255 High Road, Whetstone, London N20 0EJ
- Assisted Travel, NLBP, Building 2, Oakleigh Road South, London N11 1NP
Renewal applications for a 'Blue Badge'
Application forms should be submitted six weeks before the expiry date on the blue badge. Please tick the box on the front page of the form to confirm that it is a renewal application, and if the application is successful your new badge will be posted to you approximately 10 working days before your previous badge expires.
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