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Where you can park with a Blue Badge

This badge can only be used by the named badge holder, or by a person who has dropped off or is collecting the Badge holder from the place where the vehicle is parked.  It is a criminal offence for anyone else to use this Badge in any other circumstances.

With a Blue Badge you can park free of charge and without a time limit on street in Edinburgh

    in pay and display and shared use on-street parking bays
    on single or double yellow lines when loading is allowed
    in greenways parking places when parking is allowed
    in disabled parking bays.

You should not park

    in bus lanes during the hours of operation
    in cycle lanes
    on single or double red lines during the hours of operation
    on zig-zag pedestrian crossings at school entrances
    in bus stops
    in parking spaces for residents, motorcycles and city car club users
    in suspended parking bays
    any place where traffic or emergency vehicles might be held up
    at dropped kerbs
    in public parking places on main traffic routes when loading is prohibited.

From https://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/parking-permits/request-blue-badge-1