Is parking an issue near you? 1000 new parking spots in Southampton to be created

Improvements to parking across many Southampton estates has begun.  

Over the next 12 months or so, Southampton City Council, along with its Highway partner Balfour Beatty, will deliver 1000 new parking spaces in estates across the city.  These will be a mixture of formal car parks, parking bays and converted road verges.  

Alongside the spaces, up to 130 trees donated by the Woodland Trust and approximately 20,000sqm of wildflowers will be planted.

Subject to planning and further consultation with local communities, new parking facilities will be introduced in:

• Bassett
• Beovis
• Bitterne
• Thornhill (schemes are already underway in Lydgate Road and Farringford Road)
• Coxford
• Harefield
• Millbrook
• Redbridge
• Shirley
• Sholing
• Swaythling
• Woolston

For the full list of sites and further details, click the link below:

https://www.southampton.gov.uk/housing/your-home/1000-spaces/