Croydon's parking policy

Parking permits, season tickets, on street parking and car parks: charges from 7 April 2026 (PDF, 474KB).

Our 2024 parking policy outlines our direction for parking over the next few years.

The way that we manage our parking and balance the competing uses of our limited roadside space is vitally important to our all road users and local businesses.

The parking policy is underpinned by 4 policy drivers, to ensure that it supports the Executive Mayor’s Business Plan:

• Fair - parking which will be provided to benefit our users, robustly enforcing blue badge fraud and targeted enforcement in non-compliant areas
• Supportive - providing free one-hour parking in all our district and local centres
• Efficient - managing the parking service effectively and putting the customer at the forefront of everything we do, and the introduction of virtual permits and technologies to improve the service
• Transparent - communicating openly with our customers, making fair assessments of footway parking across the borough and introducing transparent parking tariffs.

The parking policy is framed around 5 specific policies to deliver on these ambitions:

• Supporting our local economy
• Appropriate parking management
• Supporting our disabled residents
• Efficient service management
• Intelligence-led enforcement

The policy includes an action plan that sets out our delivery plan over the next 2 years. This includes rolling one hour free parking across all our district centres and simplifying our parking fees and charges. 

Read our 2024 parking policy (PDF, 5.5MB)