Disabled Persons' Parking Places

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The Disabled Persons' Parking Places (Scotland) Act was introduced on 1 October 2009 to make all disabled parking bays legally enforceable. This means that any unauthorised drivers caught using these bays could be fined.

The Act affects all types of disabled parking places, including:

• all street disabled persons' parking places, including those in pay-and-display metered areas (e.g. those in Paisley Town Centre)
• all disabled persons' parking places in car parks, including those at shops and offices, and
• all disabled persons' parking places in new developments, such as at new blocks of flats.

To comply with the Act and to make sure disabled parking bays in Renfrewshire are not misused, the council is processing Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) for all types of disabled parking places to make them legally enforceable.


To find out exactly how the Act changes the way each type of disabled parking bay is enforced, click on the links below:

• 'Street' disabled bays
• Car parks
• new developments

'Street' disabled bays
We have now finished surveying all disabled street parking places and have written to the people who originally requested them to determine if they are still needed. Any bays that are no longer needed will be removed.

All new applications for disabled persons' parking places will be assessed by Renfrewshire Council and, where an advisory disabled persons' parking place is installed, a TRO will need to be processed. Please note that these places will not be enforceable until the TRO process is completed.

The location of all disabled bays that are currently under consultation to make them enforceable can be viewed on our LocalView mapping system. Each street bay is prefixed 'D123...', and you can search by address or area.

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Car parks
Individuals or businesses that own, share or manage off-street car parks have also been contacted by the council asking if they wish the council to enforce the disabled persons' parking places within their car park. Who enforces them (if anyone) and how this is done is the car park owner's choice.

Those responsible for car parks have similarly received a letter and a questionnaire to submit and return. The Act requires the council to repeat this exercise at regular intervals and we will therefore contact owners every two years to make sure details are up to date. Completed questionnaires should be returned to the address at the bottom of the page.

Where owners of car parks want the council to enforce their diabled persons' parking places, the council requires to make a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO), as above. The location of all disabled bays in car parks that are currently undergoing consultation to make them enforceable can be viewed on our LocalView mapping system. Each car park bay is identified by a three digit number prefixed D (e.g. D2, D4, etc).

If you receive a letter but you do not own or manage an off-street car park, you should still complete the form and return it, either by post or e-mail at the address detailed below, so that we can update our records.

If you receive a questionnaire and the property in which your business operates has a landlord, you should either pass it onto the landlord or factor or advise us of their name and address for us to contact them directly.

If you own or manage an off-street car park and have not received a questionnaire, please let us know by contacting us using the details at the bottom of this page.

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New developments
The council is required to make arrangements with developers who have included off-street advisory disabled persons' parking places within any new developments. We will do this within three months of any planning permission being granted.

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Please contact us for further information:

• email : parking@renfrewshire.gov.uk
• phone: 0300 300 0144
• fax: 0141 618 7935
• visit or write to:
  Planning and Transport
  Renfrewshire House
  Cotton Street
  Paisley
  PA1 1LL

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