Policy information sourced from Barking and Dagenham Barking Town Centre Area Action Plan DPD

POLICY BTC12: OFF-STREET PUBLIC CAR PARKING

The Council will manage its off-street public parking spaces to favour shoppers and other short stay visitors to the town centre so as to support the vitality and viability of the centre and discourage car journeys to work. It will also assist town centre residents. This will be achieved by the charging regime and by seeking to reduce the number of long stay parking season tickets for office workers issued for the London Road Car Park. It will also seek to implement a Variable Message Signing system to make motorists aware of the availability of spaces in the town centre car parks. The Council will seek to increase the number of spaces for town centre users to 1,600 in line with the findings of the 2009 Public Off-Street Parking Demand Study. This increase will be met by:

  • The car park associated with the large food/non-food store within the London Road/North Street scheme (see BTCSSA1).
  • A new multi-storey car park within the Axe Street/Abbey Sports Centre development (see BTCSSA5) on the site of the existing Wellington Street temporary surface car park.

For more information please see the Barking Town Centre Area Action Plan DPD