Parking information should be useful, traceable and honest about its limits.
BlueBay combines publicly accessible parking information, local-authority context and moderated community input to build a practical UK Blue Badge parking dataset.
1. Public-source parking information
BlueBay seeks parking information from publicly accessible sources, including local-authority datasets, published parking lists, maps and council guidance. Where a record has a source URL or attribution, BlueBay keeps that provenance with the parking record rather than treating the data as anonymous.
2. Location and geocoding
Parking records are geocoded so they can be found on a map and ranked around a user's current position or destination. Address and postcode coverage varies by source, so BlueBay distinguishes between a record having map coordinates and having a complete postal address.
3. Local rules, not one national assumption
The Blue Badge scheme is not operationally identical in every place. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland publish separate guidance, while councils, central London schemes, red routes and off-street operators may apply additional conditions. BlueBay therefore treats local parking context as part of the data model rather than assuming every badge holder has the same concession everywhere.
4. Freshness and confidence
BlueBay's parking records can store source update dates, confirmation dates, confidence information and source priority. These fields help distinguish a recently checked record from one that may need re-verification. A parking result should never imply certainty where the underlying source does not support it.
5. Community corrections and activity
Users can contribute missing bays, confirm existing information and flag incorrect details. Community contributions are treated as reports to be moderated or verified rather than silently overwriting source data. Separate check-in and check-out activity can provide a real-world signal about parking activity, but does not guarantee that a bay is available.
6. What the coverage numbers mean
The figures shown on BlueBay's location pages are counts of active parking records in the live BlueBay database that have map coordinates and are associated with that location's authority coverage. They are not a claim that BlueBay has found every possible private or public accessible space in that area forever; coverage can improve as new public information and community reports are added.
7. Corrections matter
Parking information changes. Signs, traffic orders and local policies remain authoritative at the point of parking. BlueBay is designed to help users make better-informed decisions and to make it easy to flag information that needs updating.
Explore the data
Browse BlueBay's current location coverage, read the Blue Badge parking questions guide, or see the Blue Badge parking rules overview.