You may be entitled to a care and health worker parking permit if you are are delivering essential support to clients or patients living in their own homes and each visit typically lasts less than three hours. Permits are available to:
- care workers
- social workers
- occupational therapists
- independent living advisors
- personal assistants working in social care
- Devon Carers’ staff
- all qualified medical practitioners, chiropodists, occupational therapists and opticians providing home visit, medical care or treatments
If you are a care worker working in a care home, supported living house, sheltered housing or nursing home, you cannot use this permit to park nearby whilst on duty even if you sometimes work in other houses on different days of the week.
Where you can park
Whilst displaying a care and health worker permit, you may use your permit to park for free and for as long as your client’s or patient’s scheduled visit lasts (up to three hours) when:
- parked on street in areas of limited waiting
- parked on street in resident permit holder bays
- using on street pay and display spaces (but not car parks)
- using a combination of any of the above
You may also use it to park for up to three hours on most single or double yellow lines if all the parking spaces on the street are taken, or none exist near your client’s address.
You are responsible for ensuring that you park where your vehicle will not obstruct any other vehicles using that road or be a danger to pedestrians. You should never park on a footpath or verge or near the brow of a hill or near a junction, or on any zig-zag markings as you may reduce visibility for others and endanger their safety.