Rouen Road is £7.30 for over five hours, Chantry £22.40 for the same stay. Every council tariff, the 37 permit zones, and why nothing is free on a bank holiday.

There is no free council car park in Norwich. Every one of the thirteen charges seven days a week, bank holidays included, and then charges again overnight. What varies wildly is how much a long stay costs, and the gap between the cheapest and the dearest is more than three to one.

Every tariff below was read on 2 September 2026 from Norwich City Council’s own car park directory, one page per car park.

Update, 7 September 2026: the council has published a statutory notice varying these charges from 21 September 2026. Most daily tariffs rise by 10p to 50p, season tickets go up by about 3.2 per cent, and Rose Lane gains a weekend long-stay rate. The tariffs below are the ones in force until 20 September. The new figures, car park by car park, are in what Norwich car parks will cost from 21 September.

Daytime tariffs, 5am to 6.30pm

Charges apply Monday to Sunday, bank holidays included.

Car park 1 hr 2 hrs 3 hrs 4 hrs 5 hrs Over 5 hrs
Rouen Road, NR1 1QU £2.30 £3.30 £5.00 £6.80 £7.30 £7.30
St Crispins, NR3 3DN £2.30 £3.30 £5.00 £6.50 n/a £7.30 (over 4 hrs)
Barn Road, NR2 4SZ £2.30 £3.30 £5.00 £6.80 £7.30 £7.60
Westwick Street, NR2 4SZ £2.30 £3.30 £5.00 £6.80 £7.30 £7.60
Rose Lane multi-storey, NR1 1PY £2.20 £4.10 £5.50 £7.90 £8.10 £8.70
Queens Road, NR1 3PG £2.30 £3.90 £5.70 £7.60 £9.50 £9.50
Colegate, NR3 1HS £2.30 £3.90 £5.70 £7.60 £9.50 £10.00
St Andrews multi-storey, NR3 3AJ £2.30 £4.40 £6.60 £8.80 £9.90 £11.00
St Giles multi-storey, NR2 1JL £2.30 £4.40 £6.60 £8.80 £10.80 £16.40
Chantry, NR2 1RG £2.50 £4.90 £7.40 £9.90 £12.30 £22.40
Chapel Field East, NR2 1RL £2.50 £4.90 £7.40 £9.90 £12.30 £22.40
Monastery Court, Elm Hill, NR3 1HN £2.50 £4.90 £7.40 £9.90 £12.30 £22.40
Pottergate, NR2 1DX £2.50 £4.90 £7.40 £9.90 £12.30 £22.40

The first hour costs within 30p of the same everywhere, from £2.20 to £2.50. Past five hours the city splits in two. Rouen Road and St Crispins are £7.30 for the rest of the day. Chantry, Chapel Field East, Monastery Court and Pottergate are £22.40 for the same stay, £15.10 more, and Chantry is a five minute walk from Chapel Field East.

If you are parking all day, the four £22.40 car parks are the ones to avoid. If you are parking for an hour, it barely matters where you go.

One more difference worth knowing before you plan a late night: St Giles multi-storey is open 7am to 1am, not around the clock. Every other council car park in the list above is open 24 hours, seven days a week.

Eaton Park is priced differently again and is the cheapest thing in the city: £2.00 for up to four hours, £5.00 for five, £6.00 for six and £8.00 beyond that. It is open 9am to 9pm every day except Christmas Day.

Evening charges, and the trap in the small print

Every council car park charges overnight as well, from 6.30pm to 5am, at £3.30 or £3.40 for most sites and £3.50 at Chantry.

Two things catch people out. First, a stay that crosses 6.30pm is charged twice: the daytime tariff and the evening tariff are added together. Second, the hour your evening ticket runs out is not the same everywhere:

  • Barn Road, Chapel Field East, Colegate, Monastery Court, Pottergate, Queens Road, Rouen Road, St Crispins and Westwick Street: valid to 9am the following day
  • Chantry: valid to 7am
  • Rose Lane, St Andrews and St Giles: the evening rate runs 6.30pm to 7am

So an evening ticket bought at Barn Road buys you the next morning’s commute as well. The same ticket at Chantry runs out two hours earlier.

Nothing is free, including bank holidays

Every council car park page states the daytime charge applies “Monday to Sunday (including bank holidays)”. There is no free Sunday, no free evening and no free bank holiday in a Norwich City Council car park. If you want free parking, the Park and Ride sites are the only genuinely free places to leave a car, and you then pay for the bus.

Park and Ride: free to park, £3 to ride

Norfolk County Council runs six sites around the city, and parking at all of them is free to people using the bus.

Site Address Spaces
Costessey Long Lane, NR9 3LX 1,100
Harford Ipswich Road, NR4 6US 798
Sprowston Wroxham Road, NR7 8RN 788
Thickthorn Norwich Road, Hethersett, NR9 3AU 736
Airport Buck Courtney Crescent, NR6 6JT 620
Postwick Yarmouth Road, NR13 5NP 525

Fares are £3 an adult, £2 for 5 to 19 year olds and concessions, £4 for two people and £5 for a group of up to five. Holders of a concessionary bus pass pay £2, valid any time.

Two things worth knowing. Costessey does not go to the city centre at all: it serves the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, the Norwich Research Park and the UEA, and runs Monday to Friday only. And overnight parking is not permitted at any site. If you come back after the last bus the barrier will not let you drive in, but it will rise on a slow approach to let you out.

The 512 from the Airport site also runs to the hospital, via Hellesdon, Larkman Lane and the university. Airport and Harford have electric vehicle chargers.

Blue Badge: three different deals

The council does not treat Blue Badge holders the same way across its car parks. Which deal you get depends entirely on which one you drive into.

Free parking: Barn Road (5 spaces), Colegate (5), Monastery Court (3), Queens Road (3), Westwick Street (3) and Eaton Park.

An extra free hour for every hour you pay for: Chantry (4 spaces), Chapel Field East (1), Pottergate (2), Rouen Road (9) and St Crispins (4).

Half price, but only if you ask: the three multi-storeys. St Andrews (52 spaces), Rose Lane (36) and St Giles (11) give a 50% discount, and you have to take your ticket and badge to the kiosk for validation before you pay. Pay at the machine and you have paid full price.

There are also Blue Badge only on-street bays across the centre, most with no time limit: All Saints Green outside John Lewis (6 bays) and by Aviva (2), Bank Plain (3), Bank Street (2), Ber Street (4), Bethel Street outside City Hall (2), Cathedral Street (3), Cowgate (2), King Street (1), Mandela Close (2), Opie Street (2), Princes Street (2), Rouen Road (5), St Benedicts Street (2) and St Georges Street (2).

Three sets of bays are time limited to four hours with a clock displayed: Brigg Street, Gentleman’s Walk and London Street. The council warns that the Brigg Street bays are in high demand and are usually taken, and that bus gate restrictions apply in both directions between Brigg Street and Red Lion Street.

If your disability means you cannot use the payment machines, you can park at Chantry, Chapelfield East, Pottergate, Magdalen Street or Rouen Road without a ticket, provided you have registered with the council first and you report each visit within two working days. The details are on the council’s Blue Badge parking page.

Resident permits are priced by the length of your car

Norwich has 37 controlled parking zones, and permits are no longer handled by the city council. They are run by Parking Operations, a service of the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk, through MiPermit.

The unusual part is the pricing. Norwich charges by vehicle length, not engine size or emissions:

Vehicle Length 12 months 6 months 3 months
Short under 3.92m £38.30 £28.45 £23.50
Medium 3.92m to 4.45m £58.10 £38.30 £28.45
Long over 4.45m, under 6m £82.80 £50.70 £34.60

A long car therefore costs more than twice as much to keep on the street as a short one. Blue Badge holders pay the short-vehicle rate whatever they drive, up to 6 metres. Vehicles over 6 metres cannot get a permit at all.

A visitor permit with a four-hour clock is £38.30 for twelve months. Residents on a means-tested benefit can get a free six-month short-stay visitor permit on proof of the benefit. Scratch cards run from £18.55 for ten days in the city centre zones.

The rule that catches new arrivals: most city centre properties built since 2000 are not eligible for a permit at all, and nor is anything in the central Castle area. In any permit zone introduced after July 2004, only properties occupied when the scheme started qualify, and conversions and subdivisions of older houses count as new build. The date used is the day the property was registered for council tax.

Households with a designated housing car park can get one free resident permit and one free visitor permit through the housing permits scheme.

Season tickets

Season tickets run for 3, 6 or 12 months and are split between two operators: the city council runs the multi-storeys, Parking Operations runs the surface car parks, Eaton Park, on-street and housing permits. At St Andrews multi-storey a twelve-month Monday to Friday ticket is £1,412.29, Monday to Saturday £1,694.12 and Monday to Sunday £1,976.96. Full prices for the other sites are on the council’s season ticket page. A season ticket does not guarantee a space.

The station

Norwich station has 70 parking spaces, five of them accessible, according to National Rail. That is very small for a station of its size, and the nearest council alternatives are Rose Lane multi-storey and Rouen Road, both a short walk away and both cheaper than the city centre surface car parks for a full day.

Fines

Penalty charge notices and appeals are also handled by Parking Operations rather than by Norwich City Council, as the council’s own parking page states.

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