Car parks - council

 

 

Car park locations, charges and facilities

Maidstone Borough Council currently manage and operate 17 Pay and Display car parks and 12 On-street parking areas throughout the town fitted with Metric Accent alpha-numeric Pay and Display units in each parking location.       

 

All charges for the car parks and on-street bays are located from the links below for the multi-storey car park, short stay and long stay car parks.

 

You can also find information on overnight charges within our car parks, height barrier restrictions, information for motorhomes, mini buses and coaches, CCTV, disabled bays, bicycle bays and motorcycle bays.

 

Please note: Charges apply at all times in all car parks except in Lockmeadow every day between 6.30pm and 8am and on Sundays.

King Street multi-storey car park is free every Thursday from 6.30pm until 8am the next day.

On-street Pay and Display bays are free every day from 6pm until 8am and on Sundays.

 

See also:

• Multi-storey car parks
• Short stay car parks
• Long stay car parks

On Street Pay and Display Bays - 2 Hours maximum stay

On Street Pay and Display Bays - 4 Hours maximum stay

 

High Speed Rail Service Discounted Parking

Maidstone Borough Council is introducing a new service exclusive to users of the High Speed Rail Service for all day parking in Barker Road car park for only £2.70 a day.

 

This service will involve purchasing a pay and display ticket for up to 4 hours parking (£2.70), displaying the purchased ticket as normal in your front windscreen, purchasing the relevant rail ticket from Southeastern Rail ticket office and registering for all day parking by texting your vehicle registration number and rail ticket (or Season Ticket) number to 07717 665627 before expiry of the purchased ticket.

 

This new service will begin from May 24th 2011 and these parking concessions are non transferable and redeemable only on the day of rail travel, Monday to Friday.

 

Overnight Charges

If you are parking before 6.30pm and need to stay beyond 6.30pm, you need to pay for the remainder of the daytime charge plus the £1.50 overnight charge.

 

If you are parking after 6.30pm only and will leave the car park before 8am the following morning, then you must pay the £1.50 overnight charge only.

 

These charges apply in all car parks except in the King Street Multi-Storey car park where the five hours + charge will enable you to park all day or in Lockmeadow car park where charges do not apply between 6.30pm and 8am.

 

Please note: Charges apply at all times and all days except Christmas Day where the overnight charge is in place.

 

Height barriers 

Height barriers are installed for the prevention of large vehicles, motorhomes and caravans from accessing our car parks as such vehicles due to their sizes would find difficulty in parking within the bay markings.

 

Therefore the barriers are designed to exclude vehicles more than 2 metres (6'6") in height, however they may be opened if needed for access or maintenance works by prior arrangement.

 

Car Park	Height Restriction (metres)	Height Restriction (feet)
King Street multi-storey	2.00m	6ft 6in
Medway Street	2.00m	6ft 6in
Brooks Place	2.00m	6ft 6in
Lucerne Street	2.00m	6ft 6in
Union Street West	2.00m	6ft 6in
Well Road	2.00m	6ft 6in
Lockmeadow (Covered areas only)	2.00m	6ft 6in

 

 

Motorhomes, mini buses and coaches

 

Large bays for mini buses, motorhomes and coaches are available within the Sittingbourne Road pay and display car park and recently, four bays have been installed in Lockmeadow car park which can accommodate larger vehicles.

 

Facilities for parking caravans are not available within any of our car parks or on-street bays.

 

For details of privately run sites which can facilitate motorhomes and caravans in Maidstone please visit the UKCampsite or Camping and Caravanning Club websites.

 

CCTV

CCTV is provided in several of our car parks. 

 

Disabled bays

If you have a valid blue badge you may park for up to three hours free of charge in our on-street Pay and Display bays, however you may park up to the four hour limit in the short stay car parks and all day in our long stay car parks. There are dedicated parking bays for disabled badge holders in all our car parks including 16 bays on the first floor of the King Street multi-storey and 25 designated disabled bays within Lockmeadow car park.

 

Bicycle parking

There are numerous bicycle stands throughout Maidstone including in the High Street area and also within King Street multi-storey by the exit down ramp.

 

Motorcycle bays

Motorcycles may be parked free of charge in areas marked out for motorcycle parking in some of our Pay and Display car parks where such bays exist. Secure posts have also been provided in King Street multi-storey car park. Motorcyclists who park in normal Pay and Display bays must purchase and display a Pay and Display ticket. (These can be displayed in an additional tax disc holder attached to your motorcycle).

 

 

On Street Pay and Display - 2 hours maximum stay

Charges apply between 8am and 6pm Monday to Saturday

• Mill Street (Machine ref: OS 2)
• King Street (Machine ref: OS 3)
• Church Street (Machine ref: OS 5)
• Union Street (Machine ref: OS 1 & OS 6)  
• Wheeler Street (Machine ref: OS 7)
• Brewer Street (Machine ref: OS 4 & OS 8)
• County Road (Machine ref: OS 9)
• College Horseferry (Machine ref: OS 10)
• Albion Place (Machine ref: OS 12)

On Street Pay and Display - 4 hours maximum stay

Charges apply between 8am and 6pm Monday to Saturday

• James Whatman Way (Machine ref: OS 11)

 

 

Season Tickets

Season Tickets are available for King Street multi-storey and our Long Stay car parks. For information on prices and an application form please visit the Street Parking Permits page.

 

How to use the Pay and Display units

 

Please find below instructions on how to use the alphanumerical Metric Pay and Display units below, the tariff charges are clearly displayed on the machines and all relevant information is also clearly displayed on notice boards within the car parks.

 

Step 1

Enter your full vehicle registration number.  This includes letters and numbers.  (example AB54MBC)

 

Step 2

Insert your coins to pay for the period required. 

 

 

Parking within the Regulations

To enable the free movement of vehicles in car parks and on-street bays, please make sure that your vehicle is parked within a marked parking bay. Buy a ticket (where appropriate) for the whole of the time that your vehicle will be parked and leave the ticket clearly displayed in the windscreen. Failure to observe these rules (or any other regulations, which are clearly displayed on the Pay and Display units and notice boards in car parks) may result in a Penalty Charge Notice.

 

More assistance on which parking contraventions you may be issued a Penalty Charge Notice for can be found the PATROL website.

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