Apply for or renew a Blue Badge

You will need to provide proof of automatic eligibility, such as:

• Personal Independence Payment (PIP) - you must receive 8 points or more under the 'Moving around' section
• Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - at the higher rate of the mobility component
• Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) award - at tariffs 1 to 8
• War Pensioner's Mobility Supplement

You also could:

• be registered blind (You will need to provide a copy of your Certificate of Vision Impairment (CVI))
• have a terminal illness (You will need to provide a copy of your DS1500)

We will need to assess your application if you apply due to a:

• medical condition that severely affects your ability to walk short distances
• medical condition that severely affects both arms

More advice on eligibility is provided by the Can I get a Blue Badge guide.

Due to the nature of non-visible (hidden) conditions we’ll assess your application by looking at your needs.

Having a certain condition or disability does not mean you will automatically get a Blue Badge.

Automatic eligibility

You will be automatically eligible if within your PIP mobility assessment, you scored 10 points in “Planning and following a journey”. Specifically, the 10 points which says:

“Cannot undertake any journey because it would cause overwhelming psychological distress to the claimant.”

If you did not score this you can still apply but will need to be assessed.

Assessed eligibility

We will need to assess your application if you apply due to a non-visible (hidden) condition, that causes you to severely struggle with journeys between a vehicle and your destination, and either:

• is a constant significant risk to yourself or others near vehicles, in traffic or car parks
• severely struggle to plan or follow a journey
• find it difficult or impossible to control your actions and lack awareness of the impact you could have on others
• regularly have intense and overwhelming responses to situations causing temporary loss of behavioural control
• frequently become extremely anxious or fearful of public/open spaces

If one or more of these statements are relevant to you you’ll need to provide evidence before you apply.

There are special rules in place for children under the age of 3 who:

• must always be accompanied by large medical equipment (such as feed pumps, ventilators, suction machines etc)
• need to be near a vehicle at all times so they can be treated or quickly taken to treatment (this is could be due to a highly unstable medical condition)

More advice on eligibility is provided by the Can I get a Blue Badge guide.

Some organisations may be eligible for a Blue Badge if they both care for and transport disabled people who would themselves meet one or more of the eligibility criteria for an individual Blue Badge and there is a clear need for an organisational badge rather than using the individual Blue Badges of the people who will be travelling.

You will need to provide evidence before you apply.

More advice on eligibility is provided by the Can I get a Blue Badge guide.