- Request
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1. How many designated disabled parking bays are currently available within your council area?
2. How many active Blue Badge holders are currently registered within your council area?
3. How many Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) have been issued for the misuse of disabled parking bays in each of the last 3 calendar years (2022, 2023, 2024)?
4. What is the total revenue generated from fines related to Blue Badge misuse in each of the last 3 calendar years (2022, 2023, 2024)? These offences might include but are not limited to using a fake blue badge, using an out-of-date one etc.
5. What is the total revenue generated from fines related to drivers parking in a bay without a blue badge in each of the last 3 calendar years (2022, 2023, 2024)?
If time allows, please also provide.
6. Please share the total number of Blue Badge permit (a) renewal applications and (b) new applications in each of the last 3 calendar years (2022, 2023, 2024). Please specify how many of these were rejected and, if possible, for what reason.
7. Of all the Blue Badge parking permits that are currently valid within your area, how many are for (a) visible and (b) non-visible disabilities. - Decision
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I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.
1. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) are not able to provide this information as to each individual bay as they are not registered in this manner, however LCC is able to provide total metres of bays designated for disabled parking.
Number of affected streets: 81
Total restrictions length (in metres): 22412. As at the 31 March 2025 there are 57,912 Blue Badge holders within Lincolnshire
3. Information is held on LCC website – You can filter contravention Code 40 and Code 87
Parking Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) - Datasets - Lincolnshire Open Data4. Information is held on LCC’s website – Can filter contravention Code 40 and Code 87. Contravention code 40 and 87 include “a badge not displayed”, “a badge displayed but incorrectly”, “a badge displayed but a timeclock not displayed where required”, “a badge displayed but a timeclock set incorrectly”.
Parking Penalty Charge Notices (PCNs) - Datasets - Lincolnshire Open Data
5. The information is included under the Contravention Code 40 and 87. Unfortunately we are not able to break these down as this takes too much time to investigate each PCN.
6. Renewal’s issued
01/01/22 – 31/12/22 = 13,421
01/01/23 – 31/12/23 = 12,630
01/01/24 – 31/12/24 = 13,075
New issued
01/01/22 – 31/12/22 = 7,221
01/01/23 – 31/12/23 = 9,221
01/01/24 – 31/12/24 = 9,490
Rejected applications
01/01/22 – 31/12/22 = 1,149 (146 did not meet criteria and 1,003 no evidence received)
01/01/23 – 31/12/23 = 1,200 (117 did not meet criteria and 1,083 no evidence received)
01/01/24 – 31/12/24 = 1,037 (175 did not meet criteria and 862 no evidence received)
NB – please note ‘evidence’ could relate to Medical, proof of identity or proof of address documentation
7a. 57,677 Badge holders within Lincolnshire were approved criteria other than ‘severely sighted’
b. 235 Badge holders within Lincolnshire were approved under the ‘severely sighted’ criteria
- Reference number
- 11898569
- Date request received
- 6 March 2025
- Date of decision
- 3 April 2025