Blue badge holders told to pay £150 to have disabled parking bays painted outside their home

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Blue badge holding motorists will need to pay the council £150 to have a disabled parking bay marked outside their homes. Under a new policy set to be agreed by Bolton Council this week, marked disabled bays are to be painted outside residents’ homes if they successfully apply to the authority.

The policy means that many of the 16,000 blue badge holding motorists in Bolton can apply for the first time for the markings to be installed to remind motorists that a particular space is there for a disabled person at that address.

However, the policy says dues to lack of funds ‘any cost associated with marked disabled parking bays should be borne by residents’.

That means successful applicants will need to fork out £150 for the bay to be marked, £100 for re-marking and if the markings are removed it will cost £250.