Guidance

Using local parking measures to support disabled people

How local authorities can use existing powers to create local schemes to support the national Blue Badge scheme.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 18 June 2012
• Last updated: 14 October 2026
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  1. 14 October 2026

     Updated to give local authorities information on how they can use existing powers to support parking for disabled people.

  2. 18 June 2012

     First published.

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Using local parking measures to support disabled people

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Guidance for managers of local authority Blue Badge schemes.

It covers the available local discretionary schemes that supplement the national Blue Badge scheme, including some that support people with temporary substantial impairments to their mobility.

It provides:

• case studies on how to provide a concession
• principles around car parking design
• how local authorities can work with the NHS Trusts on schemes to provide hospital and GP surgery parking