Residents Parking

What is Residents Parking?

Residents Parking Schemes are designed to prioritise on street parking spaces for local residents, especially where they are having difficulties parking near home.

Schemes are intended to deter non-residents like commuters and shoppers from parking on residential streets. Residents would need to purchase and display a permit to enable them to park on a street within a designated parking zone. Signs and road markings will be used to define the entrances to each Residents Parking Zone and to indicate the areas where residents can park.

Why has the Council considered Residents Parking Schemes?

With car ownership increasing the council is trying to make best use of the remaining available road space for the general benefit of local residents.

Several residents had contacted the Council expressing an interest in Residents Parking Schemes. Parking surveys identified the residential areas which were under parking pressure as the most appropriate location to offer a residents parking scheme, however results of an initial consultation with residents and keystakeholders in these residential areas received less than a 30% response rate and less than half of those responses were in support of the scheme.

These results were reported to the Council’s Executive Board and it was decided that a pilot residents’ parking scheme should NOT progress at this time due to a lack of public support. 

What happens next?

On-street parking pressures have not gone away. Residents’ Parking Schemes are one method of parking control which may still form part of Wrexham’s wider Parking Strategy, which also includes Traffic Regulation Orders, off-street parking places and car parks. The Council’s Executive Board has approved a policy on Residents Parking Schemes, which will allow the introduction of such schemes in the future.

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