Blue badges

According to my local authority "wigan" within the blue badge application criteria, yes there is automatic availability for a blue badge if you score high enough with your pip assessment, BUT, there is one line that says something like "other evidence" ie doctors' letter. I have had to do without my blue badge benefits for the last 6 months because I went from high rate to zero for mobility. I will be contacting my GP on monday for a letter of evidence. Not having the blue badge has caused the greatest of problems for me and caused me to be housebound several occasions because I knew I wouldn't be able to park close to the venues.

I'll let you know as soon as I find out result

Went to my doctors, got a letter (paid £15), filled in the application form online, printed off my result sheet with reference number, went to local authority office with my driving licence and utility bill. The "interview" took as long as 5 minutes and the fella took my picture and £10 fee and told me that my badge will be in the post next week! Hope my tribunal goes through as easy. Point is that just because you don't automatically qualify for a blue badge under PIP doesn't mean you can't get one. Nobody told me this when they took my car away this year, I thought I'd also lost my blue badge criteria as well.

Happy to be able to tell you all that my brand new blue badge arrived in the post yesterday. I'm considering photocopying it and sending the copy to Atos so they can stick it in their pipe and smoke it! Incidentally, we try to do all our Christmas shopping online, but a couple of things could only be got from "pick up points" the extra walking about - if you can call it that, has made my really ill.