You can use your Blue Badge when you are driving or are a passenger in a car. Other people, such as your friends or relatives, can't use the badge unless you are travelling with them.
Where you can park in Thurrock
If you clearly display a valid Blue Badge in your vehicle, you can park for free, for as long as you need in:
- any Thurrock Council car park bay except at Cromwell Road car park in Grays
- a free short stay parking bay
- a pay and display parking bay
- a permit holder bay - resident, business, visitor permits
- a shared use parking bay - permit holders and pay and display
- a disabled person's parking bay that does not have a maximum stay time
If you clearly display a valid Blue Badge in your vehicle, with the clock showing the time you arrived, you can also park:
- on single or double yellow lines for up to 3 hours when there are no loading restrictions
- in a disabled persons' parking bay that has a maximum stay time
Where you can't park in Thurrock
You cannot park with a Blue Badge at any time:
- on a single or double yellow lines when there are loading restrictions
- in a suspended parking bay
- in a loading bay
- in a bus parking bay
- in a motorcycle bay
- in a doctor parking bay
- in a police vehicle bay
- in an electric vehicle bay
- when there are school 'keep clear' restrictions in place
- on a bus stop or taxi rank clearways where a yellow 'no stopping' sign is displayed
