Christmas parking


Shoppers and visitors to benefit from relaxation of Christmas-period parking rules.



Restrictions in the borough’s parking bays and surface-level car parks are to be relaxed on specific days over the Christmas and New Year period.

The whole borough will be free of parking enforcement on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. Parking in council-run car parks on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve will be free.



These two days will also see no enforcement of the usual parking regulations in pay-and-display bays within the central zone.

The regulations will be relaxed in all other zones after 5pm.



Yellow line restrictions, however, will remain in place on these two days, and motorists are advised to park in a reasonable manner, showing consideration for other road users and pedestrians.



Normal parking regulations service will resume on 2 January



The Christmas illuminations switch-on events in Purley and South Norwood district centres will be free of enforcement of the on-street bays for two hours before and after the lights switch-on.



In Coulsdon, free parking will be available in Lion Green Road car park all day on Saturday, 5 December, for the Christmas lights switch-on.