Parking permits for Christchurch car parks

For people who use our car parks regularly for shopping or recreation purposes the range of season permits we offer are excellent value for money and represent a significant saving on tickets regularly purchased through the ticket machines.

Prices for season tickets available for car parks within Christchurch are listed below. Residents receive reduced rates and these are also shown. A resident is a person residing within the Borough of Christchurch and whose name would normally appear on the electoral register.

We also have permits for the parking of heavy commercial, public service and goods vehicles - please contact us for further details.

Shopper's permit

This permit allows parking of up to two hours (three hours at the leisure centre) at any of the 'shopping' car parks listed below:

Saxon Square; Bypass; Bridge Street; Bank Close; Pit Site; Wick Lane; Bargates (formerly Law Courts); Wortley Road; Purewell Dairy; Leisure Centre and Willow Way.

Return is prohibited within three hours.

	Year 2011/12	Residents' rate	Non residents and business owners
Annual	1 April to 31 March	£87	£87
Seven months	1 September to 31 March	£57	£57
Six months	1 October to 31 March	£51	£51

Full permit

This permit allows unlimited parking in all the borough's car parks, but with a restriction of four hours parking in Priory car park (1 April to 30 September) and Highcliffe Castle car park and two hours parking in the following car parks:

Wick Lane, Saxon Square; Bypass (except designated long stay parking bays); Bank Close; Bridge Street.

Return is prohibited within three hours.

	Year 2011/12	Residents' rate	Non residents and business owners
Annual	1 April to 31 March	£257	£420
Eight months	1 March to 31 October	£203	£371
Six months (summer)	1 April to 30 September	£152	£278
Six months (winter)	1October to 31 March	£133	£242

East Dorset Bowls Club

Designed for bowlers, allows four hours parking weekdays and five hours parking at weekends in the Leisure Centre car park.

	Year 2011/12	Residents' rate	Non residents and business owners
Seven months	1 October to 30 April	£37	£37

Leisure centre permit

For frequent users of the leisure centre, allows four hours parking once per day in the leisure centre car park.

	Year 2011/12	Residents' rate	Non residents and business owners
Annual	1 April to 31 March	£53	£53
Six months	1 October to 31 March	£30	£30

Please note

Buying a permit does not guarantee that a space will be available. At certain times of the year we reserve the right to grant free parking, or to close car parks (for example in the case of essential maintenance or a special event).

No refund of the permit fee will be made in respect of such periods.

A two metre height restriction applies in some car parks.