The Motability Scheme enables disabled people to obtain a car, powered wheelchair or scooter simply by using their government-funded mobility allowances. Customers exchange their allowance for a worry-free mobility package, including:

• Car, powered wheelchair or scooter
• Insurance
• Servicing
• Tyres
• Breakdown cover
• Adaptations and wheelchair accessible vehicles are also available.

The PCT provides a countywide wheelchair service for all residents registered with a GP in Bedfordshire and Luton. The service offers:

• Wheelchair assessment and provision for manual and electric wheelchairs
• Support, advice and training throughout life for wheelchair users and their carers
• Wheelchair maintenance service through approved repairers
• Specialist seating and postural control
• Pressure relieving equipment.

The wheelchair service assesses clients in clinics, in their own homes, in local and tertiary hospitals (specialist units), and in residential and nursing homes. The service prioritises referrals based on urgency of clinical need/diagnosis. Referral to the service is via professionals in health, social services and education.

Contact the service To contact the service for general information, new applications and re-assessment forms, phone 01525 631349 (telephones are answered between 10am and 12 noon and between 2pm and 4pm. Answerphone at other times) Repairs

For repairs to wheelchairs, contact Millbrook on 0870 060 1471.

Wheelchair hire

For the short term hire of wheelchairs contact:

The Information Service
Disability Resource Centre
Poynters Road
Dunstable
Beds LU5 4AP
Telephone: 01582 470900

The Disability Resource Centre

You can download the blue badge application form (PDF 170KB) and return the completed form (with the requested enclosures) to:

Car Badges 
Customer Finance 
Central Bedfordshire Council 
Technology House
239 Ampthill Road
Bedford
MK42 9BD

New blue badge applicants should be aware that the application process can take eight to ten weeks to complete. Renewal applicants, if eligible for a renewed blue badge should receive their new blue badge approximately one week before the expiry date of your current blue badge.

If you are disabled and wish to have a disabled bay marked on the road outside your house, then you need to make an application to Central Bedfordshire Council via the Highways Helpdesk. We will record the request, issue a report number and forward the request to Highways engineers who will make an assessment.