Disabled Parking - Blue Badge Scheme

Please Note Oxfordshire County Council are responsible for this service in Oxford. Visit their Blue Badge Scheme pages for full details.

Oxfordshire County Council is responsible for on-street parking and traffic management. Visit the Parking for Disabled People page of the Oxfordshire County Council website for more information or ring 0845 0507 666 to request an application form.

Blue Badge Parking Scheme

The national Blue Badge scheme provides a range of parking benefits for disabled people who travel either as drivers or as passengers. The scheme operates throughout the UK.

Oxfordshire County Council are responsible for administering the Blue Badge Scheme in Oxford. To find out who is eligible for a badge, how to apply and how to renew your badge, visit the Blue Badge Scheme section of the Oxfordshire County Council website.

Visit the Directgov website for national guidance.

Rules for the Blue Badge parking scheme

You can see the rules about where you can and cannot park with a Blue Badge in the documents below:

Where you can Park with a Blue Badge (12kB PDF)
Where you cannot park with a Blue Badge (23kB PDF)
Where the Blue Badge does not apply (20kB PDF)

Disabled visitors to the UK are not eligible for Blue Badges, however any parking permit badge issued from your country of origin will be recognized.

Other disabled parking spaces

Further disabled parking is available in central car parks but this must be paid for:

• Westgate car park- Free if using the Shopmobility Scheme
• Worcester Street car park - small pay and display car park
• Gloucester Green car park - underground car park not accessible to wheelchair users.

Visit our Car Parks page for full details.

Accessible Transport

Visit our Accessible Transport page for more information on this subject.

Page last reviewed 19 October 2011