Blue Badge parking permits in England and Scotland

Not directly answering your question, at all, but I am planning to bring my 89 year old mother to Scotland. I've been perusing castle websites and they generally have an impressive amount of information on handicapped accessibility, that you might find helpful at some point. Also, caregivers get in free to some places. One place said that having a blue badge would be sufficient documentation. I contacted them and said I was from the U.S. and wouldn't have a blue badge. They told me to bring the handicapped card I hang from the rear view mirror.

The problem is we are traveling around the country, so which council do we apply too.

The councils that have local government authority in the area you are visiting.

For example this is the process applied by Cornwall County Council:

Using a non European Union disabled parking badge in Cornwall

If you want to use a disabled parking badge from a country outside the European Union, we need some information from you before you arrive in Cornwall.

This will help ensure you don’t receive a penalty charge notice.

Please email [email protected] at least a week before your visit. You will need to send us the information detailed below:

A copy of the disabled parking badge you will be using

Your vehicle registration number (we understand you might not be able to tell us this if you’re hiring a car)

Dates of your stay in Cornwall

A general idea of where you’ll be in Cornwall (for example, Padstow or Truro) – you don’t have to provide exact locations or a daily travel plan
When we confirm that you can use your badge you will then be able to park as detailed below.