We receive many requests for additional parking provision from residents of the towns and villages across the borough.
We do not have a statutory responsibility to provide parking solutions in residential roads and are not the highway authority but the impact that parking problems have on the local environment and resident’s quality of life is recognised.
In 2007 we developed a programme of parking improvement works looking at 500 locations with reported parking issues. The locations investigated and improvement schemes completed to date are shown in the Parking in Residential Areas programme document below.
Parking in Residential Areas Programme (update March 2026)(XLSX)
We continue to fund additional parking projects providing one or more of the following conditions are met:
- electric vehicles will be able to charge from any new parking spaces constructed
- parking spaces are designated for use by blue badge holders
- the construction of new parking spaces would bring an environmental improvement by replacing muddy and rutted grass verges damaged by parking
- new parking spaces would help alleviate access issues for waste and recycling collection vehicles