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Background
Vision Objective
Proposals
Rationale

Background:

There are a range of car parks in Salisbury offering off street parking for 3583 vehicles. Two car parks – Central and Culver Street benefit from vehicle access direct from the ring road as well as from within the city centre. The remaining local authority car parks are of modest size and are only accessible from within the city centre.

There are four park and ride sites operational on the main entrance routes into the city and a fifth is under construction at Petersfinger on the Southampton Road.

In 2005 a new variable message car park guidance system was introduced providing electronic signs at the main entrances into the city giving up-to-date information on the availability of spaces in city centre car park sites.

Vision Objective:

Make it easier for motorists to park on the outskirts of the city centre.

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Proposals:

  • Maintain the existing car parks near the A36 ring road such as Culver Street, whilst closing car parks within the city centre such as Brown Street, Salt Lane, and Market Place
  • Remove on-street public short-stay car parking from the city centre, particularly within the historic Chequers area, and allocate the spaces for local residents, disabled people, cyclists and loading/unloading
  • Provide more tourist coach parking and layover at Park and Ride sites with drop off and pick up points close to the Cathedral and city centre
  • Design and implement a signage and car park management system that directs the driver to the nearest car park at their initial entry corridor to the city centre and/or at Park and Ride entry points
  • Consider reducing the spaces at private car parks by implementing planning policy and utilise the spaces for commercial development
  • Provide new car parking arrangements at the rail station interchange (multi-storey) and central car park as part of redevelopment proposals.
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Rationale:

  • To reduce congestion in the city centre by providing new car parks and maintaining existing parking at key locations close to the A36 ring road
  • To discourage the circulation of traffic within the city centre by closing one or more city centre car parks and making the city more pedestrian and cycle friendly
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