Oxfordshire County Council is currently consulting on two proposed on-street parking schemes in Abingdon: one for the North Central area, which includes the Fitzharris and Workhouse Estates, and one for the Ock Street area. These proposals follow feedback from an informal consultation with residents in November 2024. The current consultation is open until 1st August 2025.
The schemes aim to address all-day parking by non-residents and congestion caused by school traffic, which can make parking and access difficult for those living in the areas.
Under the proposals:
- Resident-only parking areas would be introduced, with permits available for residents to purchase. There would be exemptions for carers and some services
- Some areas near shops would allow shared use: residents with permits can park, and non-permit holders can park for up to 2 hours free.
- A small area outside Trinity Church and near Edward Street shops, would allow up to 4 hours free parking with or without a permit.
Residents in these areas would need to buy permits, as is already the case in central Abingdon. In the central Abingdon scheme, permit income helps cover enforcement costs, including the employment of traffic wardens. I would expect a similar model in the new zones.
You can view and respond to the consultations here:
- North Central Area (Fitzharry’s and Workhouse Estates):
https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/abingdon_centralnorth_permitparking2025
bringing back 2 hour parking would be good. with 1 hour you really have to rush.
Stealth tax on the residents.
Totally.
How’s about evening up the playing field and Fairacres/Tesco/Waitrose have to pay for parking too?
The money raised here through parking permits, could be used to offset & increase the free parking in town back to 2 hours.
Hang on a minute- are you suggesting that we have to pay to park outside our own houses to subsidise others parking free in town???
A parking permit scheme is the wrong approach here and will annoy more people than it pleases. Ultimately the council will end up just like the government with everyone hating them.
I think this is wrong approach.
Perfect example of this is Oxford – when parking permits come in in one area people just go and park in non-permit roads instead and the problem is just shifted elsewhere, so then permit schemes have to come in on those roads too. (It’s also a nice money earner for the council at expense of residents – why should people have to pay so much money to park outside their house? A resident parking permit should be free for at least 1 car.
And also there are some areas – eg near John Mason school and the Ab college – where people will just park all over the grass fields and verges instead and churn them up – that cannot be allowed to happen – some parents dropping kids off at schools already drive over the fields there without a care, so nothing is going to stop them avoiding the permit restrictions – they’ll just leave their cars on the grass instead.
Exactly Kris. 👍
Some of what you have said I wrote in the Council feedback form regarding changes in my part of town.
I do wish we could add likes to comments here.