In the town centre there is a residents parking scheme. Residents pay £100 a year and can park in the on-street parking spaces – some of which are reserved for residents only. Often in the evening and weekend there are none to be found.

The County Council has been consulting residents on their ideas for some additional spaces. See the map above.

Two new on street parking places have already appeared up West St Helen Street – gaining back some of the 5-6 there before the Co-op was built.

In previous consultations the proposed residents parking was put down on the left side of St Helen’s Court. This time the proposal is to allow parking next to the tapering cobbled pavement on the other side. This is a little controversial since some residents have carers who need to park and nip in for a few minutes. They couldn’t if all the spaces were used. So we shall see.