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Blue badge applicants face weeks-long wait for decision
Aldershot News and Mail
|June 11, 2025
OVER 34,000 blue badge applications were received by the county council last year - a jump of around 6,000 on pre-Covid numbers - and most have to wait weeks before their applications are processed.
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Hampshire County Council's cabinet member for highways and passenger transport, Cllr Lulu Bowerman, revealed the figures and said that between January and March this year, the average processing time for blue badge re-applications was between 7.5 weeks and 11.4 weeks from the date the application was received.
This story is from the June 11, 2025 edition of Aldershot News and Mail.
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