Doctor's parking permits

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About doctor's parking permits

If you are a registered medical practitioner (and hold a GMC number) and are currently working at a surgery or consulting room at an address of which is within the London Borough of Barnet, you can apply for the doctor's parking permit to park your vehicle in an already installed doctors bay associated with that surgery or consulting room.

We offer a specific vehicle registration number doctors parking permit and an any vehicle registration doctors parking permit.

The specific vehicle registration number doctors parking permits are virtual, which means you do not need to display anything in your vehicle. Your permit is electronic and is associated with your vehicle registration number.

Patrolling Civil Enforcement Officers will be able to view your permit on their handheld computers.

The any vehicle registration doctors parking permit is a paper permit, which means that you would need to display the permit as per the terms and conditions of use.

You can apply for a 12 month permit.

You will receive email renewal reminders in advance of the permit expiry date.

Paper permits will be issued and posted out to the billing address registered to your permit account.It is important that you check that you have entered the correct full address and postcode details.

You should allow at least 5 working days for your printed permit to arrive once you have completed your order. The paper permits are posted out via the Royal Mail recorded delivery service, which means that someone must be able to sign for the permits.

We will not replace paper permits which are lost in the post but can assist customers in locating orders by providing the Royal Mail tracking information.

Apply for a doctor’s bay

We cannot issue a doctors parking permit until you have a doctor's parking bay installed.

To apply for a doctors parking bay, please contact the Parking Design Team by email highwayscorrespondence@barnet.gov.uk

The application process can take up to 3 months.

Apply for a doctor’s parking permit

We require a letter on current printed business stationery showing the full trading address within the London Borough of Barnet, including the following information:

  • the full name of the legally registered medical practitioner 
  • that the of the registered medical practitioner is permanent employee of the surgery or consultation room (registered on the payroll)
  • the vehicle registration number
  • valid GMC number

Proof of vehicle ownership

one copy of the following accepted proof:

  • vehicle logbook (V5C) or insurance policy schedule for the respective vehicle in the same name as the applicant.
  • if you have a private vehicle registration, we will need you to provide a copy of the certificate of entitlement (V750). Your certificate of entitlement is provided by the DVLA (Driver and Licensing Agency). We will also require you to provide an insurance policy schedule or vehicle logbook (V5C) once this is received for audit purposes.
  • if you have a foreign vehicle, we will need you to provide the vehicle registration document (equivalent of the UK vehicle logbook (V5C) document). We will also require you to provide an insurance policy schedule or vehicle logbook (V5C) once the vehicle is registered in the UK for audit purposes (you can only legally drive a foreign registered vehicle up to six months in a 12 month period without registering it, as long as the car is taxed and insured in its home country).

If you have a company car, we need a signed and recently dated letter from your employer on current printed business stationery showing the full trading address and VAT registration number or company registration number. The letter must state:

  • your full name
  • your full address
  • that you are permanent employee of the company (registered on the company’s payroll)
  • your vehicle registration number              

If you have a long term lease or hire vehicle, we need a recently dated copy of the agreement on headed paper. The agreement must state:

  • your full name
  • your full address
  • the length and terms of the agreement on headed paper from the lease or hire company
  • your vehicle registration number

We may contact you to provide further evidence at a later date for fraud and audit purposes.

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Apply for a doctor's parking permits

Renew your parking permit

We will send you email reminders 4 weeks, 2 weeks and the day before your current permit is due to expire.

Emails should appear in your inbox and are sent from no-reply@mipermit.com

Please check your spam and junk folders before contacting us.

Cancel your parking permit

If you no longer require your permit, you can cancel the permit in your account.

If a permit with a duration of more than one month is no longer required, a refund for all full remaining months will be processed only from the date that the permit has been cancelled in the permit account. If a permit is cancelled mid-month, you will not receive a refund for the remaining days of that month.

The refund should automatically be credited back to the initial payment card within 14 working days.

If a permit issued as an any vehicle registration paper permit is no longer required, the Council may arrange a refund for the remaining number of full calendar months once the original permit is returned to our office. The refund will be calculated from the date the permit is received and will be for any full unused months. It is recommended that you send the original permit by recorded delivery post as without the permit we cannot arrange a refund.

London Borough Of Barnet
Parking Permit Team
Level 3
2, Bristol Avenue
London
NW9 4EW

Prices

Doctor's parking permits cost £263.58 for a 12 month permit.

Please be advised that the MiPermit parking permit system may send a request to authenticate your payment, for example via your banking app. Therefore, it is important that this authentication is completed to ensure that you successfully complete the purchase of your parking permit.

Contact us

If you have any queries, please contact our customer services department on 0345 520 7007 (Monday to Friday 8am – 6pm, Saturdays 8am - 4pm and on Sundays and Bank Holidays 10am - 4pm) or via email at help@mipermit.com

Terms and conditions of use

  1. Only a legally qualified medical practitioner that holds a valid GMC number and is a permanent employee at a surgery or consultation room in the London Borough of Barnet can apply for a Doctors parking permit.
  2. Only a legally qualified medical practitioner who is liable to be called, of necessity, to emergencies away from the surgery or consulting room can use the parking permit to park in the doctor’s bay.
  3. This permit only allows you to park in the doctor’s bay installed for the surgery or consultation room with the same doctor’s bay number associated with the permit and shown on the time plate.
  4. The permit does not allow you to park in a Resident Permit Holders Only, Business Permit Holders Only, Permit Holders Only parking places, paid for parking bays, yellow lines or any other parking restriction.
  5. Doctors parking permits that are for a specific vehicle are issued as a virtual, electronic permits.
  6. Doctors parking permits that are for any vehicle registrations are issued as paper permits, which may be transferred between vehicles.
  7. Where issued as a paper permit, the permit should be clearly displayed on the front dashboard of the vehicle. All the information must be visible from outside of the vehicle for the patrolling Civil Enforcement Officer (CEO).
  8. Failure to correctly display a Doctors parking permit as per condition 4 may result in a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) being issued to the vehicle.
  9. It is the responsibility of the permit holder to ensure that they supply the correct vehicle registration number when applying for a specific vehicle Doctors parking permit.
  10. The maximum number of Doctors parking permits which shall be issued to a surgery or consultation room at any one time shall be three.
  11. The issue of a Doctors parking permit does not guarantee the availability of a parking space, nor does it render the Council subject to any liability in respect of loss or damage to any vehicle in a parking place or the contents or fittings of any such vehicle.
  12. Parking places may be suspended by any person duly authorised by the Council or the police. Do not park in a parking place where signs indicate it is suspended.
  13. If a permit with a duration of more than one month is no longer required, and the permit holder cancels the permit within their permit account, a refund for all full remaining months will be processed only from the date that the permit has been cancelled in the permit account. If a permit is cancelled mid-month, you will not receive a refund for the remaining days of that month.
  14. If a permit issued as an any vehicle registration permit is no longer required, the Council may arrange a refund for the remaining number of full calendar months once the original permit is returned to our office. The refund will be calculated from the date the permit is received and will be for any full unused months. It is recommended that you send the original permit by recorded delivery post as without the permit we cannot arrange a refund.
  15. The council may revoke a permit if it is believed that the permit is being misused. Where a vehicle has 3 or more unpaid and outstanding Penalty Charge Notices (PCN) issued that have progressed to 'charge certificate' stage (by this stage there is no longer a right of appeal) then a new or renewed permit will not be issued for that vehicle until all of the outstanding Penalty Charge Notices have been paid or the matter otherwise resolved.
  16. A permit may be cancelled if it is not used in accordance with these terms and conditions of use (under these circumstances you will not be entitled to any refund).
  17. Failure to comply with these conditions may result in a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) being issued to your vehicle.
  18. A goods vehicle with an overall height greater than 2.3 metres may not make use of a parking place during controlled hours.
  19. It is prohibited to use a vehicle in a parking place in connection with the sale or offering or exposing for sale of goods.
  20. If a Doctors parking permit has been damaged, lost or destroyed, the permit holder may apply to the Council for the issue of a replacement permit and the Council, upon being satisfied as to such loss or destruction, shall issue a replacement permit, so marked, and upon such issue the original permit shall become invalid. The replacement permit will display the same expiry date as the previous permit.