Apply for a Blue Badge
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Contents
- Who can get a Blue Badge
- Choosing your assessment
- How to apply or reapply
- Appeal a Blue Badge decision
Appeal a Blue Badge decision
If you disagree with the decision to refuse your application, you can request a review of the decision.
You need to include additional medical or supporting evidence not available with your initial application showing how you meet the criteria (you may not contest the criteria itself).
The information you provide will need to show you are affected to the extent that you would be unable to access make a journey unless allowed to park close to shops, public buildings, and other facilities.
Additional information
Additional information provided needs to cover the following points:
- what behaviours and difficulties you experience when making a journey
- how frequently these occur
- how you currently access the community, including what coping strategies are currently in place to ensure your safety and what steps are currently taken to try and improve journeys for you
- how effective are these strategies
- how a Blue Badge would stop or ease the difficulties experienced
Medical evidence
Further information can include documentation from your Consultant, Specialist Consultant, The NHS App, or Free Medical records from your doctor's surgery. The information needs to be related directly to your conditions that impact your mobility and how they impact accessing the community.
We cannot use letters from your GP to approve your appeal. However, we can use them as supporting documents and will take the evidence into consideration. Requesting a GP’s letter is at your own cost and may not be enough evidence to issue a badge.
Request a reassessment
You must notify us in writing within one month of the date of your refusal notification:
- Email - [email protected]
- Post - Blue Badge Team, Haylock House, Kettering Parkway, Kettering, NN15 6E
Your application and any new information and evidence you have submitted will be reassessed within one month but can be longer if additional information is required. This may include being referred to our Expert Assessor. Once we have reassessed your application, we will write to you about the outcome.
If you are unsuccessful in your appeal, you can reapply within 6 months if your circumstances change.
Last updated 17 March 2025