Claim your parking rights using the Blue Badge Scheme, Resident Parking Permits and Disability Parking Card programs.

If you need to park, we fight for your rights, and tell you all you need to know.

The European Parking Card Directory (EPCD) is a unique web site which champions the rights of disabled motorists and the general motoring public to parking rights and concessions across the UK and Europe.

The European Parking Card Directory (EPCD) MEMBERS HOME PAGE

• Disability Issues

  • Applying for a Blue Badge in the UK

  • Are you breaking the law with a Blue Badge or disability parking card?

  • How to Identify a Disability

  • Top 10 reasons why Blue Badge disability parking cards fail to work

  • Parking for the Disabled is it really necessary?

  • Using your disability parking card abroad - Europe

  • using your disability parking badge abroad - Rest of World

  • Maurice' s story - what it's like to have a disability parking badge

  • Register your Blue Disability Parking card or permit

  • Manage your existing Parking Badges and Permits, add more, report lost and stolen

  • Search the EPCD Directory for parking badges and permits

• Residential Parking Permits

  • Why apply, how to apply and where?

  • Residents parking in practice, what you need to know

  • Register your parking permit, report it lost or stolen

  • Manage your existing Parking Permits, add more, report lost and stolen

  • Search the EPCD Directory for parking badges and permits

• The Parking Card/Permit database

  • an introduction to the whys and hows

  • searching for parking card and permits records - the stages

  • registering new parking badges and permits

  • reporting stolen parking cards and permits, why and how

  • reporting lost parking cards and permit, why and how

  • Search the EPCD Directory for parking badges and permits

• Local Authorities

  • local authorities what they do for the motorist

  • find your local authority

    • In England

    • In Scotland

    • In Wales

    • In Northern Ireland

    • In Ireland (Eire)

    • In Europe

  • The New Blue Badge proposals

  • Strategic Review of the Blue Badge Parking Scheme for disabled people

  • Search the EPCD Directory for parking badges and permits

  • Appealing against traffic fines

• Offenders - people parking illegally

  • Learn about offenders, who they are and what you can do about them

  • See the list of parking offences you can incur

• Parking Discs

  • An introduction to the disc system

• Alternatives ways to travel and avoid needing to park a vehicle

  • car sharing

  • using local buses

  • staying at home and working from home

  • walking is good for you and it's free

  • try cycling to get to work or for pleasure

  • let the train take the strain - or some of it

  • taxis, private hire and cabs

  • route and time planning

• Town/City Parking

  

  • parking congestions - why, where and solutions

  • loss of car parks can we stop it?

  • where are we heading - the future for car parks, or lack of them

  • parking issues - make it better for you and other motorists

  • parking issues - how you can make it worse for yourself and other motorists

  • Park and Ride - drive to the outskirts and then come in by bus or coach

  • The Traffic Management Act - new laws mean you could face massive fines by post

  • Traffic cameras - how you face unjust and unreasonable and illegal fines for parking

  • Appealing against traffic fines

• Employers Providing Parking for their staff

  • Is your employer providing adequate parking spaces for those with disability parking needs?

• Parking at Supermarkets and out of town shopping centres

  • Disability Parking at UK Supermarkets

• Spread the word about EPCD

  • Tell A Friend

  • Discussion Board

  • Link to Us

• Contact Us

  We like to hear from you, to add to our knowledge and to help us expand our services to members.

  • Give Us Useful News

  • Ask a Question on Parking Issues

  • Report Errors and Omissions

  • Press and Media Office

  • Discussion Board to ask questions or sound off your views