Parking Bays

Parking Bays

If you are disabled, life is a lot easier if you can park near your home. This section describes how you could get a designated parking space outside your home.

While Blue Badge holders can park in any Pay and Display space, disabled parking bay, meter parking space or car park, it can still be hard to find a space if they live in a busy area.

If you are a Blue Badge holder, you can apply for a disabled parking place near your home. If your application is successful, the parking place will be reserved for any Blue Badge holder (any disabled person displaying a blue badge in his or her vehicle can park in a disabled bay for an unlimited period of time).

How to apply for a designated parking space

Contact Greenwich Council by telephone, letter or email and they will send you an application form.
Blue Badge Parking Bays
2nd Floor,
The Woolwich Centre,
35 Wellington Street,
London SE18 6HQ
020 8921 2388
[email protected]

You will need to include copies of your driving licence and vehicle registration documents showing your name and address (proving you are a local resident) when you return the completed form to the coucil.

To qualify, you must hold a valid Blue Badge and:
a) receive the higher rate mobility component of the disability living allowance
b) drive your own car
c) have no access to private parking, ie no garage or driveway
d) prove you are a local resident (if you do not receive a qualifying allowance because you are of retirement age, you will need to supply medical information from your GP or hospital consultant to support your application).

Please note that, in general, disabled passengers will not usually qualify, unless their regular driver is unable to help them from the car (for instance, due to the driver's poor health) or if the passenger needs constant attention.

In all cases there must be a severe parking problem outside the home which lasts for the greater part of most days.

What happens next?

We make every effort to deal with applications as quickly as possible. However, putting in a parking space involves consultation with local people and statutory bodies, as well as the production and publication of Traffic Management Orders.

The process will take at least three months.
We will try to site the parking place as near to the relevant address as we can.
However, we must consider:
1) traffic flow
2) the interests of the owners and occupiers of adjoining properties
3) access to premises
4) road safety.