Car Parks – Regulations and Conditions of Use

1. Parking Regulations: Contraventions of these are enforceable under Traffic Management Act 2004 as contained in our Off Street Parking Place Orders:

• All parked vehicles must display a valid ticket bought at the time of parking
• Vehicles must be parked wholly within a marked bay
• Tickets are non-transferable between vehicles and car parks
• Disabled Spaces are reserved for Disabled Badge Holders only
• Blues badges must be displayed in accordance with guidelines given in the scheme booklet
• Return of a vehicle to a car park within one hour after expiry of its ticket is prohibited
• No parking is permitted in reserved bays/reserved parking places without a valid permit

2. Car Park Conditions of Use: enforceable by other legal action by the Council or Police:

• Only motor cars, motor cycles, other motor vehicles not exceeding 3.5 tonnes, invalid carriages and disabled persons vehicles are permitted to park
• All parked vehicles must be licensed and insured
• Drivers are required to stop the engine once the vehicle is in position in the parking place
• No person shall shout or otherwise make any loud noise to the disturbance of users of the car park or residents in the neighbourhood
• No person shall in the parking place use any threatening, abusive or insulting language, gesture or conduct with intent to put a person at fear or so as to occasion a breach of the peace or whereby a breach of the peace is likely to be considered
• No person shall use the parking place as a means of passage from one road to another road
• No person shall erect a tent, booth, stand, building or other structure in the car park without the Council’s written consent
• No person shall cause or permit to be lit any fire
• No person shall use any vehicle parked in the car park in connection with the sale of any article or the sale of any skills or services
• No person shall use the car park for sleeping, camping, cooking or eating or for servicing or washing any vehicle (except where necessary to enable such a vehicle to depart from the parking place)
• No unnecessary sounding of any horn of any vehicle or similar instrument is to be made in the car park
• Markings indicating entrance and exit and direction of traffic should be adhered to