Wakefield Council’s Car Badge Unit can issue car-parking concessions (known as blue badges) to help people whose disability makes it impossible to visit shops, public buildings and other places unless they are allowed to park close to their destination.

The Blue Badge scheme is a national one for both drivers and passengers who have severe, permanent walking difficulties. It also applies to passengers who are registered blind and to people who drive a vehicle but have very severe disabilities affecting their arms and who cannot turn a steering wheel by hand.

Blue Badges can only be used in a vehicle when the person who it is allocated to is travelling.

To get an application form you can either:-

• Call our customer contact centre number on 0845 8 506 506
• Collect an application form from a Contact Wakefield Access Point at your local library
• Download the application form (see 'Related Links') 

Once completed please return your application form to the following address:-

Car Badge Unit, PO Box 208, Pontefract, WF8 1WS,  making sure you include:

• your signature
• the appropriate fee
• two photographs
• any other relevant information to support your application.

For more information about car badges click the FAQs link (under 'Also In'), or read the Dft guidance notes (under 'Features').