How to use your Blue Badge

Find out how to use your Blue Badge for disabled parking in Sutton.

When using your Blue Badge, you should make sure:

Parking with a blue badge in Sutton

Yellow lines

You can park on a single or double yellow line for up to 3 hours, except:

  • where there is a ban on loading or unloading
  • in parts of central London where local schemes apply

Car parks

You can park for free in the dedicated disabled bays and any other bay in Council operated surface car parks controlled by pay and display machines, except for:

  • motorcycle bays
  • car club bays
  • electric vehicle charging bays, unless you're charging

Disabled parking bays

You can park for free in disabled parking bays. You'll need to obey any signs that show a limited time allowed in the bay.

Bays

You can park in:

  • pay and display bays and shared-use bays for free
  • free limited waiting bays for longer than the permitted time

You cannot park in permit-holder only, loading, motorcycle, car club or any other type of bay or Permit Parking Area.

Picking Up and Dropping off blue badge holders

Where the badge holder is a passenger, and being dropped off or picked up, the blue badge can be displayed whilst that activity is being completed.

The picking up or dropping off activity must be continuous and the vehicle must be moved to a lawful parking location, without the badge displayed, once it is complete. The driver can not complete any other activity whilst the badge is displayed and the badge holder is no longer with them.

You can not, for instance, use the badge to drop the badge holder off, and then leave the vehicle parked with the badge displayed to go shopping, without the badge holder, whilst you wait for the badge holder to be ready to be picked up some time later.

Find parking

Use the PIE online map to find parking in Sutton and across the UK

Using the Blue Badge abroad

Find out about using your Blue Badge abroad with the FIA Guide for the disabled traveller.