Purbeck District Council provides a range of travel
concessions to people who are permanent residents within the
Council’s administrative area and who satisfy the eligibility
conditions. An application can be made at any time but only
one of the concessions can
be claimed with the exception of the Swanage Railway Residents Card
which can be used in addition to the other concessionary schemes
mentioned.
National Bus
Pass
You will be eligible for a free travel National Bus
Pass if you are:
- Aged 60 or over; or
- Registered disabled; or
- Not permitted to drive or likely to be refused a driving
licence for medical reasons: or
- If you are registered blind or partially sighted irrespective
of your age.
The National Bus Pass allows for concessionary bus travel
across England during off-peak hours (9.30am until 11.00pm) Monday
to Friday and all day weekends and Bank Holidays. This pass
is only valid in England.
You are required to supply to the Council documentary evidence
to prove your age or disability (i.e. birth certificate, driving
licence, passport, registration card etc) plus a recent
passport size colour photograph of yourself for the Bus
Pass.
A leaflet giving further information about
the National Bus Pass scheme is available from the Council’s
Benefits Office (01929 557236). You can also download information
from the document below.
Train Discount
Voucher
You may choose to have a Train Discount Voucher as an alternative
to a National Bus Pass, provided you satisfy the eligibility
conditions for the National Bus Pass.
A Train Discount Voucher can be exchanged for a rail faresaver pass
at a local, mainline railway station. The rail operators will
apply their own eligibility conditions for the issue of a rail
faresaver pass. You should check at your local railway
station to ensure you qualify before applying to the Council for a
Train Discount Voucher.
Run separately to the Train Discount Voucher,
Swanage Railway
offers a Resident's Card for those living within the Purbeck
District Council area. This is available for £10 with proof of
residency and offers a 50% discount on Swanage Railway travel
on most trains. Full details are available on the
Swanage Railway
website (external link).
National Transport
Tokens
You will be eligible for an allocation of National Transport
Tokens, for use in taxis, if you are:
- Aged 60 or over; or
- Eligible disabled, or
- Not permitted to drive or likely to be refused a driving
licence for medical reasons, or
- Registered blind or partially sighted;
- and
- You do not personally own a motor car; and
- Either you do not have a bus service within half a mile of your
home, or you suffer from a medical condition which seriously
restricts your mobility.
The value of the National Transport Tokens is currently £50.00
for a full year allocation from 1st June, but reduced to
£30.00 for applications received after 31 July and to £nil for
applications received after 31 December.
You may authorise someone else to collect your National
Transport Tokens on your behalf.
Each year the Council allocates a limited amount of
money for the purchase of National Transport Tokens and
applications are accepted strictly on a first come, first served
basis.
Disabled
People
Disabled people who satisfy one of the qualifying conditions
set out below are eligible for one of the travel concessions
(subject to any other eligibility conditions that may apply to
individual concessions):
- You are profoundly or severely deaf
- You are without speech
- You have a disability, or an injury, which has a substantial
and long term adverse affect on your ability to walk
- You suffer from the long term loss of use of both
arms
- You have a learning disability, that is, a state of arrested or
incomplete development of mind which includes significant
impairment of intelligence or social functioning
- You would be refused a driving licence under Section 92 of The
Road Traffic Act 1988.
- You receive the high rate mobility component of Disability
Living Allowance
Applicants must provide an original document or registration
card which clearly shows they satisfy one of the qualifying
conditions set out above. As an alternative the Council may
accept a supporting letter from Dorset Social Services or other
relevant organisation or person.
In considering an application the Council may require medical
evidence to be supplied.
Application
Forms
If you would like to print out an application form for one of
the Travel Concessions please click below. You should send your
completed form to the Benefits Office, Purbeck District Council,
Westport House, Worgret Road, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 4PP.
National Fraud Initiative
This authority is under a duty to protect the
public funds it administers, and to this end may use the
information you have provided on subsequent forms for the
prevention and detection of fraud. It may also share this
information with other bodies responsible for auditing or
administering public funds for these purposes.
For further information, see
National Fraud Initiative.
Contacts:
or telephone: 01929 557240.