Disabled Permits Cost

Disabled permits are available to residents who have a disabled bay located outside or adjacent to, their home and who also have a valid Blue Badge. Disabled permits cost £30 per year. The name of the road in which the disabled bay is located will be noted on the permit along with your permit number, vehicle registration and the expiry date of the permit. When displaying the disabled permit you will be entitled to park in any disabled bay located on the road noted on the permit without needing to display your disabled badge. Anyone displaying a valid disabled badge will still be permitted to park in any disabled bay in the borough, including the one installed adjacent to your home. Applications can only be made through the post. Applications take 10 working days to process from the date we receive your application. Download the disabled permit application form. One proof of residency, such as a utility bill, council tax bill, bank statement or wage slip. The proof must be dated within the last month, please only send us a copy. Vehicle registration document (V5C/Vehicle log book) - please only send us a copy. Make sure you include a copy of your Blue Badge (front and back). Payment can be made by cheque or postal order (made payable to Ealing Council). Please do not send cash in the post. It is the applicants responsibility to ensure they renew their permit before its expiry date. An application form, payment and supporting documents will need to be supplied each year on renewal of the permit.

I have a disability and a parking permit in front of my house. I have to pay a lot of money over the course of winter to be shoveled out. Why should someone else get my spot? Disabled people need to be able to access their cars or vans. Especially if there is only one handicapped parking spot on the street and it’s in front of your house. Where do you park if, after paying someone to shovel you out, you arrive home to find another handicapped van or car in the space? To the degree it is a permitted space, anyone with an HP permit is entitled to park there. Consider the disabled or handicapped person with a car. Unable to shovel out, the person pays a contractor to shovel the sidewalk, a path to the street, and the car. This has to happen often, as well as keeping ice off the car, sidewalk, and stairs.

It adds up to a lot of money. Putting a chair in a permitted space keeps the space open and available. You heard about a big snowstorm coming up in your city. You leave work early to park in front of your house. The snow accumulates to six inches. When it’s over, it takes you over an hour to clear your car and a path from the sidewalk to the car. You leave a chair in your space when you do errands. You are not going to spend hours shoveling out, only to have someone else reap the benefits of your work. My street has a lot of cars. If I do not protect my space, I would almost never have a place to park. If a car is in a prime parking area, say downtown or a heavily trafficked street, the need for a parking space is even greater.

The issue of saved street parking is moot. Many times, visitors to the street during or after a storm will inevidently leave after shoveling out. These become open and available spaces for others to use. These are for anyone’s use, as the person who shoveled out will not return. The street is public property. No one should have the right to take a parking space for indefinite amounts of time. This is what causes retribution toward excessive space savers. I don’t mind people saving their space a couple of days after a storm. But to hold that space for weeks at a time is selfish and inconsiderate.” The argument includes keeping their space reserved all day while the shoveler is at work. The snow-parking reservation mentality often gets taken one step further. Selfish people think they have the right to reserve their parking spot before the snow storm even arrives. Saving spaces with any mobile object available, such as trash cans, milk crates, broken down chairs, makes the city streets look unkempt.