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The Blue Badge Scheme provides a national arrangement of parking concessions for the following:

• People with permanent and substantial disabilities which means you are unable to or have difficulty walking (who travel either as a driver or passenger)
• People over 75 and have considerable difficulty in walking
• People with severe upper limb disabilities who regularly drive a vehicle but cannot turn a steering wheel by hand even if the wheel is fitted with a turning handle
• People registered as blind
• People who receive the higher rate of the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance
• People who receive a War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement
• People who use a motor vehicle supplied for disabled people by a Government health department.
• Institutions that use a vehicle to transport disabled people

It allows badge holders to park close to their destination, but the national concessions apply only to on-street parking.

How to apply

If you wish to apply for a blue badge, you can download the application form below or call in at any Knowsley One Stop Shop.

Along with your application form, please provide 2 passport size photographs, your most recently qualifying benefit award letter i.e. disability living allowance etc [you can bring your book but the badge will only be eligible up to the last date in the book]. There is also a £2 administration charge.

If you apply but do not have a qualifying benefit you will have to undergo a medical. Institutions need to write to us on headed paper providing details of the vehicle and how the vehicle is used.

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