Free Car parking

emujuice

Hi
I've started this thread following inspiration from an earlier thread, where you can get 10 mins free at most major car parks. I thought we could have a city guide for car parking (ie cheap/free if you're willing to walk etc..)

Anyway, if anyone has any tips please post here.

Here's my guide to sheffield city centre.

Sundays: FREE on street parking on any of the metered spots, also in council carparks. Also can mostly park on single yellows. Behind the cathedral gets busy, but there's normally spaces in paradise square.

Evening parking (after 6.30) is free in most council spaces.

Saturdays: Sheffield University carparks are available to everyone at weekends. Catagory B and C. These are mostly around the uni (western bank), behind the octogan etc..(NOT Tower court - sometimes charges). BUT there are some small carparks off west street between it and portobello st (behind sinclairs and the little boots, also behind subway).

Weekdays: You can have 2 hours free in Waitrose - bottom of the moor and go through the underpass and past Wicks to the shops. Or for the other end of town, try down by kelham island, but people who work in town often park there. 5 mins walk to town (primark and boots end)
Hope that helps someone

Station: Free 15 mins in multi storey or sit and wait by car next to the pick up point, but gets very busy.

OxJak

Oxford:
Most of the on-street parking is pay-by-meter (if you can find any streets with bays on, that is!), but there is free parking for up to 24 hours in Cowley Place (just off the Plain roundabout, 5-10 mins walk from city centre), no return within 8 hours. Usually pretty busy, but I've almost always found a spot there.

dave111

great idea for a thread

please post all the sneaky free parking spots in london

across

manchester: i seem to remember parking many a time on sunday for free on parking meters (anyone can correct me if its changed!!)
ps: glad you found my earlier post an inspiration i havent had many thanks for it !!
gosh i tell a lie i just had a look and it says 7 people have thanked me!!!!!!!! i was a bit fed up when nobody replied at first cos i thought it was good to know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :T
well done for the thread!

smartie1976

Manchester (I hardly ever pay for parking but it is getting harder to find the places to go):

Free parking on any of the metered bays after 6pm monday-saturday, and free on sundays.

Very few single yellow lines now so not much choice here.

Through the week if you can navigated yourself to the NCP carpark on PORT street, after around 2pm the little man in the hut goes home - so no-one to take your money, thus free parking.

Free EVERYDAY (for 2 hours at a time I think) parking on designated bays opposite CIS building near shude hill, on a road splitting two car parks (and also if you follow the road down and take a very sharp and thin right turn there are more a little way up the hill to the left near the new Tobacco factory flats.)

sooz

reeler wrote:

London Free parking:
no bloddy where

you have to park outside the m25 and walk in....

emujuice

For sheffield, here the relevant bit from the uni site saying parking is available:

2. Parking is controlled in non-residential car parks during the hours 7.00 am - 6.00 pm Monday – Friday (7.00am – 9.00pm for Tower Court; 7.00 am - 10.00pm x 7 days for S10 health)

Link to car park map:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/corpserv/roompark/parking/map.html

do any other uni's have the same policy?

*trots off to check hallam's website*

ginajp

Bath: Long stay is Charlotte Street pay and display carpark (just before Queen's square) - is may a 3 minute walk to Milsom street. Also, if coming in on the A4, turn left towards the Royal Crescent and go in the back entrance, saves going in further for the city entrance.

Short stay, drive down Milsom street, try and get a space there, otherwise go round the block - I think the cheapest is the Podium carpark underneath Waitrose. You sometimes have to queue to get in but once you're there its right by the shops.

brad

A legal tip so you can park on yellow lines. Not many people realise that that double yellow lines only mean no parking, but you are allowed to load for 20 mins, providing there is no loading restriction (the yellow stripes on the kirb) . So if 2 of you go to town, one must stay with the car and have the boot open, you are loading, aren't you!. A traffic warden would have to prove you are not. I think you can use your own imagination if asked. I take no responsibility if you get booked, but you would have good grounds to challange any penalty.

deecy

My ex father-in-law did that all the time. Just parked up, lifted his tailgate and off he went.

jenny_f

York - the uni is free on a weekend! Get the bus or walk to town, far cheaper than parking in the city centre!