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Blue Badge Scheme

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lucky1

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Posted April 12, 2011 at 9:35PM

On renewing my wife's blue badge today I found that our local council now charges £20 for this. It was free before. Is this just a local thing to us (Falkirk Council) or is it the same nationwide now?

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peter99co

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Posted April 12, 2011 at 10:03PM

From the maximum fee a local authority can charge for a Blue Badge will increase from £2 to £10

Blue badge website

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Nontek

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Posted April 12, 2011 at 10:05PM

My recent renewal cost me £2 - Cheshire Council.

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peter99co

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Posted April 12, 2011 at 10:06PM

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lucky1

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Posted April 12, 2011 at 10:19PM

peter99co - thanks for the useful links.

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spuds

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Posted April 12, 2011 at 10:48PM

If you check out the Falkirk Council's own website, you will find that it states- from 1st April 2010 the fee for a blue badge is £20.00 and £10.00 for a duplicate.

Each council in the UK have their own rules about fees for administration.

Living in Scotland also brings surprises regarding using Blue Badges in England. In England you are automatically provided with a cardboard clock for setting the times allowed. If you intend to travel over the border from Scotland, you will need to 'borrow/loan' a clock from your local Scottish authority. Many a Scottish blue badge visitor might fall foul to an English Parking Attendant for not displaying a clock!.

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morddwyd

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Posted April 13, 2011 at 6:57AM

I was also stunned to find that in England I was expected to pay for parking!

The only two car parks I know that charge blue badge holders in Scotland are run by English management companies.

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hssutton

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Posted April 13, 2011 at 8:44AM

morddwyd

As a parent of a severely disabled daughter I wish that every Blue Badge holder had to pay for parking, maybe then the wide bays would not be hogged by people that do not need them.

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Bingalau

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Posted April 13, 2011 at 10:43AM

hssutton. You have a good point there. It could maybe stop the baddies from using them. Then again it may not! I recently renewed my blue badge for free, so the amount charged must be down to your local council.

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Bingalau

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Posted April 13, 2011 at 10:48AM

Maybe it is a good way of getting back the money you don't pay for prescriptions north of the border. If that is the case, there must be an awful lot of blue badge holders up there.

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Woolwell

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Posted April 13, 2011 at 11:01AM

Blue badge holders should certainly get priority parking places but I don't see why they should be able to park for free as well.

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