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Disabled access blue badge
A complete overhaul of the disabled badge application process has been suggested at a council meeting in Bracknell. Councillors from Bracknell Forest Council have been scrutinising the area’s disabled badge application process. Disabled badges, called Blue Badges, allow people with disabilities to park in disabled bays. The number of refusals and complaints prompted councillors to conduct a review of the Blue Badge process. As a result, councillors have recommended major changes to the process. The biggest change would be to the Blue Badge application form. Currently, the only application form available is that on the Gov.uk website. The review panel has suggested that the council’s Adult Social Care department make their own forms for applications in Bracknell Forest.
So far, BFC has come up with three ways it could plug the funding gap:
Increasing council tax by up to three per cent
Use council’s reserves A six-week consultation on the spending plans began today. Cllr Birch added: “In all the years I’ve sat on the executive, we’ve always had a tough time with money. You could say that given the exceedingly tough times we are in now, that has set us in good stead for what we are facing. “But our residents know and have come to enjoy the fact this Conservative-led administration has balanced the budget for over 20 years.