Where can I get a blue badge?

Applications are processed over the phone or online. Contact Address:

The Hub,

Blue Badge Administration Team,

Red Rose Hub, Blue Bell Way,

Preston. PR2 5PZ.

Telephone 0845 053 0049

or apply online, email address is www.lancashire.gov.uk

and search via the A to Z link under B.

A range of people are eligible for Blue Badges and a person only needs to meet one of the following criteria.

· People who are registered blind

· People who receive the higher rate of the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance

· People who use a motor vehicle supplied for disabled people by a government health department

· People who receive a government grant towards their vehicles

· People who a War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement

· People who have a permanent and substantial disability that makes walking impossible or very difficult

· People who have a severe disability in both upper limbs, regularly drive a motor vehicle but cannot turn the steering wheel of a motor vehicle by hand even if that wheel is fitted with a turning knob

· Parents of disabled children over two year’s old and under 16 years.

• Blue Badges can also be issued to an organisation which transports disabled people.

• Need to be kept near a vehicle at all times to get treatment for a condition when necessary

Note:

Normally, children under two years of age do not qualify for a badge because they would not normally be expected to be able to walk independently. However the Blue Badge scheme was extended in October 2007 to cover children under 2 years of age whose disability requires bulky medical equipment.

Organisations caring for disabled people meeting one or more of the above criteria may be able to get a badge, but this is entirely at the local authorities' discretion and the conditions for using such a badge must be strictly observed)