Parking and access for Greyfriars

As part of the study, a ‘parking baseline’ has been established to provide a comprehensive understanding of parking in the town centre in terms of car park locations, the number of spaces available and typical levels of demand. 

This includes surveys undertaken on weekdays and also Saturdays. Parking surveys were undertaken in Spring / Summer 2022 (post-Covid) and they recorded a maximum of 842 vehicles parked on a typical weekday across nine car parks. 

This is equivalent to 30% of the available spaces being in use with nearly 2,000 empty spaces present across the town centre. Whilst higher parking activity was observed on a Saturday lunchtime, there were still in excess of 1,500 empty spaces surveyed.

We would like to hear your views on parking options in Greyfriars.