Charged £20 to renew Blue Disabled Parking Badge

jetta_wales

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

LOL I think the passport photo rules are same as DVLA. You will even need to nominate Registration Details of the cars you will be in the main using with the badge.

Do you get your badge by Automatic Right (HRM DLA) or by discretionary Jetta?

I had mine through automatic entitlement due to being registered blind, though I do now get HRM also.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

I am waiting for mine to be renewed. My old one has run out too. Wish the new one would hurry up and come.

The new style badge i posted - the serial number will actually tell you something about the applicant. It contains date of birth and gender in a scrambled format.

Brassedoff

Same as your driving licence has always done. Allows the Police to see if the number and person should be correct.

Richie-from-the-Boro

Brassedoff wrote: »

Same as your driving licence has always done. Allows the Police to see if the number and person should be correct.

On the new one there's an alpha numeric reference number, that single number will be all that's needed for enforcement, querying etc. It will come back with all your personal details.

jetta_wales

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

On the new one there's an alpha numeric reference number, that single number will be all that's needed for enforcement, querying etc. It will come back with all your personal details.

So they should just be able to scan the barcode on them through the windscreen and get the number and all the details that are linked to it.

Richie-from-the-Boro

jetta_wales wrote: »

So they should just be able to scan the barcode on them through the windscreen and get the number and all the details that are linked to it.

Can't be [ remember ] scanned, it's designed to be impossible !

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

Yes I think the idea is that a parking attendant can read the barcode from the new blue badge and it comes up on the terminal they carry that it is legitimate plus anything else they need to know.

jetta_wales

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

Can't be [ remember ] scanned, it's designed to be impossible !

BARCODE they are there for the purpose of being scanned with a barcode reader.

Richie-from-the-Boro

jetta_wales wrote: »

BARCODE they are there for the purpose of being scanned with a barcode reader.

That's what yourself & A Flock Of Sheep say, I say different.

I maintain its not copyable and wondered from the first time I saw the spec about Nov last year what the heck it was for, other than a general manufacturing purpose and not BB user info specific.

jetta_wales

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

That's what yourself & A Flock Of Sheep say, I say different.

I maintain its not copyable and wondered from the first time I saw the spec about Nov last year what the heck it was for, other than a general manufacturing purpose and not BB user info specific.

Not copyable? A barcode reader doesn't copy it, it just scans it to read the information from it. I've written barcodes in programming for registers in colleges as our company did further and higher education, students and fee's software.

I printed one that stored my name just for the hell of it